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What is the WORST pain you've ever had?

255 replies

Rnm62 · 04/12/2023 23:06

Apart from labour

I’ve had some pretty nasty migraines that were more painful than my 2 c section recoveries!

What’s the worst pain you’ve ever been in & how long did it last?

OP posts:
Onemoretimeok · 04/12/2023 23:08

Forceps delivery without an epidural. The pain was only brief, but it was excruciating.

Readingineading · 04/12/2023 23:09

Salmonella poisoning. My insides were ripped to shreads, I was passing huge amounts of blood rectaly. I was on a morphine drip for 5days. Horrendous.

KnickerlessParsons · 04/12/2023 23:09

Toothache. Far worse than labour.

Cincinnatus · 04/12/2023 23:10

Toothache I would say. It was so so so bad.

MissingMoominMamma · 04/12/2023 23:10

I once got a pain in my abdomen and side. It lasted about 20 minutes and was absolutely excruciating. Never had it since and I have no idea what it was.

FatFilledTrottyPuss · 04/12/2023 23:10

Shingles down my leg. It felt like I’d been peeled.

DaughterNo2 · 04/12/2023 23:11

Collapsed lung

RampantIvy · 04/12/2023 23:11

When the surface of my cornea ripped. It was excrutiating. You don't realise how much you move your eyes until you can't because of the intense pain.

roodulfrein · 04/12/2023 23:11

Tooth pain, absolutely horrendous

Stringagal · 04/12/2023 23:11

Toothache / abscess. Far worse than giving birth, I felt like I was going insane.

Sodie · 04/12/2023 23:11

Neuralgia

Fivepigeons · 04/12/2023 23:12

It's hard to rate because they are bad for different reasons.
Childbirth is obviously the most painful in the moment however you know it will end...
I prefer it to toothache I had once because that came and went and would hang around for hours and was awful.. made me suicidal almost.
I also had very bad cystitis once for a few months and that made me suicidal.. I was actually thinking I didn't know how would live with that pain long term... thankfully it cleared up in the end.

I personally prefer pain however intense, that you know what it is and that it will end. Like childbirth or a broken bone.

Mothmansknickers · 04/12/2023 23:12

I have UC. I once had pain in my stomach that felt far worse than labour. Thankfully, it only lasted for half an hour,

NewtonPulsifer · 04/12/2023 23:13

Gallstone attack.

Noseyoldcow · 04/12/2023 23:13

Don't want to say in case I jinx myself and get something worse!

Pallisers · 04/12/2023 23:13

Bi-manual massage (one hand massaging in uterus and one on stomach) after childbirth when I was haemorrhaging. Horrendous.

mrsfollowill · 04/12/2023 23:14

Tooth abscess for me- shocking and made my entire head throb I couldn't sleep it was so bad so spent the night pacing the floor until I luckily got an emergency dentist appt the next day (this was in the 1990's!)- C section was a breeze compared. Appendicitis wasn't exactly a walk in the park either!

RosesAndHellebores · 04/12/2023 23:15

A badly fractured/wedged L1. A few years later a badly fractured/wedged T12. 6-8 weeks.

petridishmystery · 04/12/2023 23:15

I broke my arm in two places a few years ago and that was pretty awful but I’d say the sciatica I had all down my left leg was probably the worst. Didn’t know what to do with myself!

MargotBamborough · 04/12/2023 23:15

I got hit by a firework which burned a small patch of skin off my inner thighs.

Pixiedust1234 · 04/12/2023 23:16

Earache. To the point where my ear canal was so swollen they couldn't put any antibiotic cream down. I had that on and off for two years. The whole side of my face and neck were swollen too.

shudders

nutelia · 04/12/2023 23:16

Dry socket

BeeCucumber · 04/12/2023 23:16

Dry socket where your tooth was extracted and the blood clot protecting the hole has washed away. An exposed bone in your mouth is agony.

I would also not recommend any abdominal surgery where your bowels are exposed. They burn for weeks after 😦

Twilight7777 · 04/12/2023 23:18

Spinal stenosis and burst disc. Literally screamed with every movement. Morphine barely touched it.

CrushingOnRubies · 04/12/2023 23:18

Kidneys stones and the wind I had a week after I had my spleen and gallbladder removed

The headache I had last night was pretty intense too

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