Have you experienced anything more painful than labour?

[BumbleAw]

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

Solidarity with everyone who mentioned gallstones.

I have them and am on the waitlist for surgery. Having an attack is horrendous, especially when alone and looking after two tiny children.

I would also say severe bladder infection when pissing pure blood was up there.

C section way worse than first natural,period pains every month worse too.

Spasms from Wry neck are far more painful than labour. Even induced labour contractions prior to any pain relief.
Breastfeeding after nipple damage has occurred.

TMJ and neuralgia gave me jaw and head pain that was far, far worse than labour. Also, bilateral fluid on my lungs gave me chest pains I will kever forget. I was fighting for breath and it was excruciating.

I had 3 C-sections by the last two were cuts from naval to pubis and the usual pubis cut so I have an upside-down T on my tummy.

I've had stress fractures in my pelvis, four broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and broken collar bone, cellulitis four times, double pneumonia with pleurisy, gallbladder removal not key hole, three dislocated disks, and tendon repairs with ligament repairs - joint manipulation and wash out when my hand was bitten/ chewed on by a cat complicated by septicemia too- I was begging for surgeons to amputate it was horrendous.

All worse than the c-sections I had. I think my nine lives have been used.

Earache, toothache and a corneal abrasion. Labour probably was more painful but no one was giving me nice drugs for my other ailments and it was over far sooner than my other maladies.

Kidney stones- according to my mom who had me without pain killers.

I've always thought this 'labour is the most painful experience a human can go through' idea was nonsense (but don't let's tell men that).

I've had three children, used gas & air, but my most painful thing ever was when I hurt my back. No idea how I did it, but just excruciating for days.

Gallstones, was literally tearing my hair out.

One of my baby's was back to back so labour was long and there was no build up and easing off, it was constant agony like the peak of a contraction with a baby the right way round. Gallstones were still more painful.

A twisted and necrotic ovary and a raging abdo infection caused by an ovarian dermoid. My idiot gp had insisted I had IBS for six months despite me repeatedly telling him it was getting worse. until I collapsed one night in more pain than I can describe.

Blue light, then seven days in women's surgical (who were wonderful) and seven weeks off work. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I changed gp.

Pleurisy. The pain on every single breath was horrific. Whereas labour contractions building up and fading was psychologically easier to deal with.

Tooth abscess. I've experienced it twice and would have chopped my head off for relief. I say that as someone who found labour painful, choosing an epidural but still labour did not touch the sides of the tooth pain.

A twisted ovarian dermoid cyst (5cm). Previously undiagnosed until the sudden onset of pain.

It was about the same intensity/pain level of labour but without even the relief of in-between contractions - it was just constant, for hours.

having gall stones was far worse than giving birth. I’ve given birth 3 times twice without pain relief.

The recovery from my fourth degree tear in labour was 100% worse than the event.

Trapped nerve.

When my hip had crumbled and no one knew I needed a replacement
also when I needed my gall bladder removed and foolishly ate a very rich ice cream.

Dental pain of the worst kind, miles more painful.

Trying to wee after giving birth, took my breath away.

Yep - Frozen Shoulder - especially if someone bumped into me on a train or bus.

I had no drugs in either labour (first because I was an idiot and read too many natural birth books and second the labour was so fast there was no time!) but by far the afterpains feeding DC2 were almost unbearable.

I had forceps with no pain relief at all (well, 2 paracetamol about an hour beforehand) and had a 3C tear, but the worst pain I’ve ever felt was getting one of my drains taken out after my c section. It was caught on a nerve and I felt like my organs were being pulled out by a hook or something. Horrendous and searing.

I think with the tear/forceps I went to a different realm, but with the drain removal I was fully present and it was horrific.

Also at least labour pain is productive.

For context, I had first child with eventual epidural (after two days Labour & back to back etc)

2 and 3 were without even gas and air (not my choosing; I’m a badass but not a fool!). Both over 8lb too so not like coughing and they plopped out; the labours and births were hard & painful

worse than this was having 4 wisdom teeth out at once, and even worse than this was skleral buckle in the eye for retinal detachment. The recovery and pain from that was more brutal than childbirth

Yes. I slipped two discs in my back and ohmygoodness that was agony. I think it was worse than labour because I was a constant pain with no clear end point - at least with labour it came in waves and only lasted til the babies arrived

Just at the end of my coping strategies with a chronic anal fissure, the pain is relentless and awful.

Ruptured appendix. If someone were to have handed me a gun I'd have finished myself off. Was hallucinating, vomiting and lost use of my legs. Dreadful