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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:
toomanyleggings · 04/12/2023 23:18
  1. ( most painful) induction on a drip with no pain relief.
  2. corneal abrasion with the cornea flap bent backwards and trapped under my upper eyelid.
  3. neuralgia
  4. natural childbirth with no pain relief
crimewatcher · 04/12/2023 23:18

Undiagnosed Ruptured ectopic pregnancy at 13 weeks. Massive internal bleeding. Cheers to the NHS for bringing back from the dead! 🍻

Neolara · 04/12/2023 23:18

Sciatic pain. It's probably less intensely sore than a tooth abscess (although still very sore) but has gone on for months. So overall, pretty shocking.

JanglingJack · 04/12/2023 23:19

Peripheral neuropathy. Incessant pain, constantly stabbing, worse at night.

I have a high pain threshold, but imagine getting in to bed and someone is jabbing a sewing needle under your toenails in to your nail bed.. All night, sometimes all day.

I've been suicidal at times with it.

bracemyselfagain · 04/12/2023 23:19

Perforating my eardrum underwater ... the infection and surgery that followed was agony.

Then, induced labour. Went from 0-10cm in no time at all.

muckymayhem · 04/12/2023 23:20

Physiotherapy to treat plantar fasciitis- it was like being tortured - I cried & shouted a lot - (a bit like giving birth) and had quite a few huge bruises up my calf afterwards to boot. I know this sounds unlikely - I have had tooth pain and ear pain and broken bone pain, which were all quite excruciating, but this was on another level. Maybe it hurt more because I was paying for it.

EeesandWhizz · 04/12/2023 23:20

Pancreatitis linked to gall bladder issues.

mrsfollowill · 04/12/2023 23:20

Oh and I see someone has mentioned gallstones - I'd blanked that out I think as so hideous. Rupturing your achilles tendon hurts a lot as well- for me more than breaking a bone in my foot. Had to be the same foot at different times so I have one well dodgy leg and one that's OK.

LoudSnoringDog · 04/12/2023 23:20

Acute cholecystitis

honestly thought I was dying

TheShellBeach · 04/12/2023 23:20

nutelia · 04/12/2023 23:16

Dry socket

Another vote for dry socket.

fridaynight1 · 04/12/2023 23:20

DVT I thought my leg was going to explode. It was literally weeks after giving birth but the pain in my leg was far, far worse than any of my 3 labours ( I’m including back to back keilands in that).

At least they give you pain relief in labour - I was told I couldn’t have more paracetamol until morning by a truly evil nurse. Paracetamol? Seriously I way beyond needing that. I had to wait until 6am until eventually an angel doctor arrived with intravenous morphine.

I’m not religious but prayed to God that night - I really thought I was going to die.

Original poster
Rnm62 · 04/12/2023 23:20

Some of these replies, ouch!!! 😖
Makes me realise how lucky I’ve been

OP posts:
Peterpieper · 04/12/2023 23:21

I’m trying to decide between crohnes disease and shingles, both are excruciating and go on for weeks

MrsMerryMistletoe · 04/12/2023 23:21

The night after I had a full hysterectomy. Surgery ended about 11pm. I was in agony for the next 6 hours as they said I couldn't have any painkillers. Left side low down felt like I had a hot poker inside me. NHS Guildford. Worse than a severe gallstones attack and a swollen ovary. I have had 2 surgeries in private hospitals and no pain.

HobnobsChoice · 04/12/2023 23:23

Tooth abscess was horrendous. I remember lying on my living room floor screaming into a cushion and rolling around it was so bad. I got an emergency dentist appointment the next day after explaining the pain was so bad I had taken about 18 cocodamol tablets in the last 24 hours.

Equally horrendous but physically unable to roll around was when I had a haematoma in my episiotomy. I was hallucinating with pain lying on the floor of my hospital room as I couldnt get on to the bed as every single movement hurt. I was lying on a towel howling even after the oramorph. They gave me gas and air to get me to stand up and transfer to the bed and then diamorphine into my cannula so I could be examined and then sleep. I forgot I'd even had a baby the day before I was in so much pain (she was in Nicu). When they took me down to theatre to remove the Stitches and gave me spinal block I offered to marry the anaesthetist and then the gynaecologist for making the pain stop.

Ineedwinenow · 04/12/2023 23:24

Having a full bone and gum reconstruction of my upper jaw including having several teeth removed and new ones installed.

I couldn’t eat, clean my teeth or talk properly for months and when I did, the pain was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before and I never want to again.

OhHowTheDogsStackUp · 04/12/2023 23:24

Pelvic inflammatory disease. The NHS couldn't get me an appointment to get my coil out in time and it went rotten.

When I was in resus, the nurse couldn't get an IV in because my screaming was making her jump out of her skin.

I got put in a private room because I was screaming the entire hospital ward down. Apparently I was screaming even in my sleep.

Nothing would touch it. Morphine was like taking two paracetamol for a drill through the head.

And then on top of that, I had constipation. Believe me, you do not need to shit poo rocks out of an infected lower end.

Forget about weeing either. That was impossible as well. It took half an hour of deep concentration to get the littlest trickle out. So I got to enjoy the feeling of a full bladder along with it.

It lasted for weeks. I couldn't lie down, sit down, or stand up. Everything I did was agony.

Labour was a holiday in the south of France in comparison.

yorkshirepuddingandjam · 04/12/2023 23:25

Ear infection, the only time in my life I have felt suicidal. (2 natural births with only gas and air didn't compare to that ear infection)

JanglingJack · 04/12/2023 23:26

Peterpieper · 04/12/2023 23:21

I’m trying to decide between crohnes disease and shingles, both are excruciating and go on for weeks

I've recently had shingles and like an idiot , I didn't know. It was all there under my breast. Very irritating, I thought it was just sore from my bra. It had pretty much cleared up by the time I called GP. I think I was lucky due to taking Gabapentin and Duloxetine already for nerve pain.

Dreamingofthishouse · 04/12/2023 23:27

Compressed spinal discs( several) and a herniated disc at S1 which meant the pain in my leg was thee worse pain I have ever experienced, I was in hospital, morphine did nothing, I was begging them to cut my leg off - was really terrible for about 3months and I was a broken person from it, couldn’t sit couldn’t lie couldn’t walk- really bleak time.

second to that a hand up my vagina to remove clots from my uterus and prevent further bleeding during a haemorrhage with another person massaging my stomach at the same time!

familyissues12345 · 04/12/2023 23:27

Toss up between knee dislocation and gallstone attack Envy

MexicanDrinkingWorm · 04/12/2023 23:27

My back went into spasm once, pain so bad I blacked out (one of two times I’ve ever fainted).
that felt like it was worse than labour as I knew it was going to hurt for days too and there was no immediate end in sight. Probably should of got urgent medical help in hindsight, but I just suffered through

FatFatMary · 04/12/2023 23:28

I’m just starting to recover from a three week migraine

lauramum85 · 04/12/2023 23:29

Sciatica. Had it when I was 5 months pregnant and couldnt take any pain relief. Did not sleep for 3 days it was horrendous. Giving birth was a walk in the park compared to it.

witchypaws · 04/12/2023 23:29

Herniated disc with cauda equina. Losing all feeling was a relief
Months of pain and I was living off morphine

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