What is the most pain you have ever experienced?

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Some say tooth pain is one of the worst pains to have.

What would you say the worst pain is you’ve experienced?

It's a tie between gallstones and being bitten by my cat.

There is a massive difference between a small playful bite and scratch that barely breaks the skin, and a scared angry cat fulling crushing his teeth and claws into your hand, with almost instant tendon infection setting in. DH didn't even notice because I passed out and couldn't call for help.

Oh, there was also the week long migraine when I had the flu. I lay still and prayed for death.

Tonsillectomy age 30. Worse than childbirth.

All exactly what I was going to say! plus a dying nerve in a front tooth.

Cauda equina

Double arm fracture with dislocation. Never knew pain like that existed 😭

Partially rupturing my calf muscle, was beside myself with the pain in the leg. Toothache/abscesses come a close second. I found the 4dc births far less painful in comparison.

The most pain I have had was after my second c section. The most horrible/uncomfortable thing I have ever had was an endoscopy without sedation.

Childbirth was the worst as it went on for 6hrs but I dislocate my knee frequently and that is worse pain but short lived.
Childbirth at least had a positive spin on it so it wasn’t traumatic. But I had continuous contractions from the start so it wasn’t like the books said!

Slicing my eye. Childbirth doesn't compare at all to the pain of that

I trod on something in the sea in Malaysia and it pierced my foot like a knife. Blood everywhere.
It must have injected poison into my foot as iv never experienced pain like it. It went on for an hour then just stopped.
I never found out what it was but the cut had a serrated edge and I think that it could have been a stone fish.

I would much rather give birth than experience this ever again.

@garlictwist in the most mundane way possible - walking around the side of the house. Ground perfectly flat. Extremely loud bang, instant crippling pain. Unable to weight bare etc

gallstones

Having my wisdom teeth removed and the gum being sutured too tightly to let it drain. One side of my face was twice as wide as the other with a massive haematoma. Went back to the hospital in the afternoon as couldn't bear it, was told I was being a drama queen over the phone but told to come in anyway. As soon as I got there they rushed me straight in, took 2 stitches out and the relief was insane. I've had 2 babies and this trumped both births.

Impacted wisdom tooth removal. Norovirus also, but more because I just couldn't stop vomiting and wanted to die. Broken foot (didn't realise at time) came a very close third pure agony.

Plantar fasciitis is also bloody painful too and I'd never have thought that either.

Frostbite , absolute agony .

I used to get regular migraines in teens and then when I was in 20s caused by BCP. The pain was awful but when it subsided it was so great that I forgot about it. Even now, someone who asks me about migraines and I say, yes, sledgehammer going into your head continuously. Plus auras and vomiting.

@OutOntheTilez - I second the slipped disc pain. It was the first and only time in my life when I have seriously considered ending it all.

First time I stood up after a Caesarean section. I swear the colour still drains from my face when I think about it.

Dental pain - had an issue with a dying molar about a year ago which took 3 months to resolve. Aside from the odd few hours in those months where the anaesthetic masked the pain, I genuinely wanted to die. The whole experience was quite traumatic, including a failed extraction. I have given birth with zero pain relief, and I'd rather do that again than have the pain from my tooth. When the tooth was finally out, I cried with relief.

Yea! My disc ruptured and compressed my sciatic nerve - three weeks of the worst pain I have ever felt
also thought about ending it if I had to live like this forever ?(pre diagnosis)
Morphine didn’t event touch it :-(

I was literally bed bound and had to crawl everywhere
the worst pain in the world

Pilonidal Sinus Abscess

Infected cyst in my thumb.

If I’d had an axe I’d have chopped my hand off.

It was either a perforated eardrum or a boil inside my ear which eventually burst. It felt like my head was under great pressure and about to explode, then I put my head down instinctively on the sore side and then bang! Some fluid poured out. It was during a Bank Holiday weekend so waited until the Tuesday to see a GP which you could fairly quickly in those far off days. I was put on antibiotics for two weeks.

Back to back delivery of large baby with no pain relief, he's worth every second of it though ❤️