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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:
Sienna9522 · 05/12/2023 01:03

Ear ache, toothache, bartholin cyst

Ishouldgodostuff · 05/12/2023 01:07

the worst is right now - I have sciatica in my left leg & the burning, tearing nerve pain sensations are just pure agony. Like spasms that ripple down my leg.
But have also had gallbladder pain for days until they decided to put me into hospital & remove it - think that is a close second.
And our babies deliveries - way down the list

goingtotown · 05/12/2023 01:13

Labour pains were a breeze after Gallstone pain.

Justyouwaitandseeagain · 05/12/2023 01:18

Childbirth. I seriously thought I was going to die at points and I was utterly delirious with the pain. Excruciating pain for 4 days both times. Mammoth second child with shoulder dystocia.
no other pain (including toothache, migraines, and tearing my corneas - although agonising - has come anywhere close) 😩

Silverblue1985 · 05/12/2023 01:20

Menstrual pain. Worse than any toothache and a tooth abscess that made me look like I carried a kinder surprise egg in my cheek.

HeraSyndulla · 05/12/2023 01:25

Horse stood on my foot and crushed all the bones like matchsticks. Ambulance jabbed me full of ketamine. Don’t remember much after that.

jakesmommy · 05/12/2023 01:27

Toothache, ....also once I had an awful cramp in leg from stretching, it was so intense I cried out.
I have fibromyalgia now so I am in constant pain.

Fluffyhoglets · 05/12/2023 01:28

IBS bowel spasms
Until I got them it was neck and neck between toothache snd earache.
But the IBS pain is horrific - I cannot move when it happens and have to lie on the floor to avoid passing out.

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 05/12/2023 01:29

Bar labour (and I only got an hour or so of the full whack before I had an epidural and that was bad enough, I was induced though) I had a migraine last year that felt like someone was drilling into my head. Took a couple of days to get over.

Before that I would say when I first got diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, I was fobbed off because they didn't believe a 24 year old could have pain that bad, I was taking the max ibuprofen I could a day and it barely touched the sides. I could hardly move for the pain and my muscles felt like they were on fire (later confirmed by doctors that my inflammation markers were quote "through the roof").

Thankfully went on proper medication and all pain gone, mobility back too, even years down the line. I got very lucky with an old school GP who got me sent for tests ASAP. The previous GP all but accused me of being a silly girl who was just exaggerating.😡

ApplesinmyPocket · 05/12/2023 01:30

Sailthisshipalone · 05/12/2023 00:41

Ear infection.
Ive had a few ear infections but one particular one a few years ago the whole side of my face was swollen and it felt I’d been punched in the side of the face.

I couldn’t sleep with the constant throbbing pain and was actually crying I was in so much pain.

I’ve given birth twice and the ear pain was a lot worse than that!

Yes, I think ear pain probably takes my gold medal. I remember I walked around the house in the dark night while everyone slept, in agony, worse than birth pain, wanting to hit my head on the wall, anything, just to make the pain stop (finally numbed it with brandy, lots of it, and painkillers.)

Recently I've suffered an injured shoulder which wakes me up in the morning in excruciating pain to the point I've thought I might vomit with it, but on balance, the ear pain still wins out.

Humblecrumblegrumble · 05/12/2023 01:34

Toothache. Always and forever, its the bar I measure pain on. Nothing compares. I have had a bad oral history and some real bad incidents of Toothache and if the pain hadn't stopped i don't doubt I may have done something awful.

Gall bladder pain and thrombosed pile very painful! Also a foot condition that is undiagnosed but I suspect arthritis where I can't bear weight on one foot and my goodness it's painful when I try.

My brother tells me gout is awful. Couldn't bear anything touching his skin.

caringcarer · 05/12/2023 01:36

Gall stones.

alltoomuchrightnow · 05/12/2023 01:36

Gallbladder attacks..am waiting to have the damn thing out. I've passed out many times from it.
Migraines.. far worse as a child.. there was one that's definitely the worst pain I've ever had, I honestly thought I'd die (and wanted to)

alltoomuchrightnow · 05/12/2023 01:37

I have passed out many times from trapped wind too..really has been that painful! Not for years thankfully

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user1492757084 · 05/12/2023 01:46

Worse than labour was the pain after having 2 Wisdom teeth removed and before the very strong analgesics were procured, taken and had kicked in.

ManyATrueWord · 05/12/2023 01:47

Bowel spasm.

strawberrysea · 05/12/2023 01:47

This will sound like a piss take but I promise you it's not.

The worst pain I've ever felt was a stabbing stomach pain. It was absolutely 10/10 pain and lasted for about five minutes. I couldn't even speak it was that painful. We were on holiday and my DP was about to call an ambulance when I let rip the loudest and longest fart of my life. Pain instantly gone.

I hope to never experience that again.

mondaytosunday · 05/12/2023 01:57

Cystitis- OMG I thought I was going to die. Only had it once thank God.

Airyfairy99 · 05/12/2023 02:00

Blocked bowel (not constipation) , full on bowel obstruction that ended up in major life saving surgery. Pain was excrutiating ! 100 x worse than childbirth (had 4dcs and all natural births , last baby born with no pain relief at all and other 3 just gas and air ) . bowel obstruction is on another level pain wise.

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 05/12/2023 02:02

Fibroid necrobiosis whilst pregnant. I wasn't allowed pain relief as 'fibroids don't cause pain'. They bloody do when they've had their blood supply cut off by a baby taking everything available. The fibroid was larger than the baby and caused so much pain the doctors/nurses missed that I was in labour and I was accused of just wanting drugs. When I was finally allowed codeine the nurse stole it which caused an even bigger kerfuffle.

I've also had dry socket which was horrendous.

I have a slipped disc which causes sciatica. Both can cause me extreme pain on a regular basis, but nothing as horrendous as the dying fibroid.

Blutenblatt · 05/12/2023 02:02

Ovarian Torsion, where my Fallopian tube twisted multiple times on itself and cut off the blood supply, killing my ovary. I have a high pain threshold and that was 10/10, repeatedly vomited and passed out due to the pain as not even morphine would touch it.
I’d rather take my 23 hour drip induced back to back labour any day than feel one second of that pain again.

crimsonleaves · 05/12/2023 02:07

I've had a lot of the ones on here but don't find dry socket that bad compared to any of the others. I expect it with every extraction and it's the last thing that puts me off.

The other things were injuries, illness etc that were a lot more serious or chronic, so it's silly but the pain was shocking and unexpected from the AstraZeneca vaccine. It was like all my bones were broken and I struggled to breathe. Not dissimilar to when I was hung on a frame for a spinal surgery. I wondered if other people with AS and EDS had the same side effects from the first AstraZeneca?

Rocksonabeach · 05/12/2023 02:13

Burst appendix. Years ago but remember it like yesterday. It was gangrenous and I was in hospital in intensive care for weeks. I remember the pain before I went in. GP was with me at the house (home visit) and morphined me up and I remember getting to hospital. By that point morphine wasn’t touching it and I just wanted to die - literally die. I couldn’t scream or cry or move. Apparently I had my blood taken by a friend and she said after I was recognisable at the time as I was grey, not green I was grey and she said she’d only seen people like me just before they died.

I was six hours plus in surgery - my parents had been phoned by the GP, they were told by the hospital that it was unlikely I would survive. Weeks in intensive care and then about 6 weeks off work. Even 3-4 weeks later it would take me a few hours to get down the stairs have lunch and get back up. That was my entire day. Down stairs, lunch, back up again to bed.

other than that teeth and recovering from impacted wisdom teeth removal and jaw bone removal. Stitches all over my mouth and oh my giddy aunt the pain

hellywelly3 · 05/12/2023 02:46

Having tonsils out as an adult. 2 weeks of absolute agony.

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