Have you experienced anything more painful than labour?

[BumbleAw]

Just curious if anyone had experienced anything more painful than labour and if so what?

Toss up between a virus that caused a headache so painful I told the nurse in A&E if she was offering euthanasia I’d take it or when I fell down the stairs and partially ruptured my ACL and broke my leg…and I gave birth on paracetamol, dihydrocodeine and a tens machine.

As painful but not more painful...

1. exposed nerve endings of failed upper molar extraction
2. unset broken scaphoid/wrist

Kidney stones. The pain is constant not in waves like contractions. Also tooth abcess and dry socket following tooth extraction.

I'm on the tail end of a back spasm. It's really hurt. Kidney stones were horrendous too.

I had an ovarian cyst that burst, the pain was so bad I vomited then blacked out.

No, labour was 'i'd happily die now to stop this' level for me. I'm pretty hardy with the other stuff.

Nothing more painful than being induced.

Inflamed gall bladder.

Wisdom tooth infection. Geez that came close to me trying to take my own tooth out.

I didn't feel labour pains because I had an epidural, but unfortunately the anaesthetist hit a nerve while doing so, which was possibly the worst pain I've ever felt in my life.

Cardiac pain

Infected jawbone after a tooth abscess, and sciatica.
I was in labour for almost three full days and would take that over the tooth any time.

Kidney stones. I passed a good number of them during pregnancy (some rare reason why I had them) and I was just so relieved to be in labour as it really wasn't as bad. At least labour is mainly a "productive" pain. Going through all that for a 2mm stone was much worse xx

Sciatica

Gallstones/gallbladder infection.

In part it’s because you can’t see an end in sight and it doesn’t seem worthwhile.
While in labour I was able to tell myself the more painful it was getting the closer was to meeting my baby, that made it easier to manage.

Tooth abscess, I just sobbed continuously at it's worst. Also tore my cornea which was comparable.

Have had home births.

Gallstones 5 weeks after giving birth to my first child. It was an induction and from waters breaking to being born was 7 hours. As it was fresh in my mind I aways swore bilary colic / infected gallbladder was more painful than birth but now I’m pregnant with my second I’m now not so sure. Did my mind play tricks on me?!

Costocondritis. The pain was so severe for 3 days that it was all I could do to keep as still as possible which lowered the pain a tiny bit, but we all also had Covid so coughing made me feel such pain that my eyesight blurred and I thought I was dying.

Never sort medical help as the whole household had covid and the media said to stay away from all medical facilities, but a month later the GP told me not to listen to such nonsense and that they were seeing Covid-positive patients who needed any kind of urgent assistance in a marquee in the carpark.

I’ve had many repeated bouts but none like the first one, thankfully. It absolutely seriously rivalled childbirth.

Period pain. Worse and lasted longer. No pain relief for giving birth (too rapid)

Oof ouch!! Iv always been scared of horses in fear of this! Lucky it didn’t kill you!

Toothache, trapped nerve in shoulder.

Appendicitis. Crippling pain.

The worst pain of all though is grief and I’ve yet to experience anything that comes close.

I'm a complete wuss but I'd take labour over the year I had of sciatica, so many times I just wanted to be a torso.

Nothing worse than childbirth. However being stung by a hornet was second in terms of pain. And climbing/descending Snowdon in a heatwave was second in terms of sheer physical effort.

Yes, bloody autocorrect!