[PinkPetunia]

Tooth abcess was my worst pain .Childbirth was nothign compared to the sheer high pitched agony of an infected tooth .

[Amica]

Originally Posted by jra

Well, the answer isn't childbirth, that is for sure, despite various claims by women on here. It isn't.

My vote goes for a trapped spinal nerve. If you want sheer agony for a week, go for that. That's a week, not 3 minutes.

Childbirth however painful will be a walk in the park, simply because it doesn't last a week, for one thing.

The thread is about the worst pain you've ever experienced. You dismiss the experiences of others as you know best. I didn't realise that this was a competition!

[Ænima]

Is childbirth like bad indigestion, because that's pretty damn painful? I mean if you get it really bad!

I think the most pain was an infected ingrowing toenail I had. The pain was very strong but I still found it preferable to stomach pains.

[gmphmac]

A bad ear infection years back. The pain was so severe that it made me feel sick and none of the painkillers helped.

I remember being up half the night.

[Trifle?]

A double abcess under a cracked molar on a Friday night, I spent the weekend piggybacking co-codamol with my partner's painkillers every two hours, the dentist wouldn't do anything until the infection had stopped so i ended up with double doses of anti-bios on top.

In the end i begged him to pull the ******* out!!!

..and i've giving birth, walk in the park compared

[kaiserbee]

Originally Posted by gmphmac

A bad ear infection years back. The pain was so severe that it made me feel sick and none of the painkillers helped.

I remember being up half the night.

That was me last night. This afternoon I could kiss the world - antibiotics and prescription-only-strength painkillers!

[Orangemaid]

Originally Posted by Ænima

Is childbirth like bad indigestion, because that's pretty damn painful? I mean if you get it really bad!

I think the most pain was an infected ingrowing toenail I had. The pain was very strong but I still found it preferable to stomach pains.

not sure, but i guess childbirth is one of a pain to go through

[hobbleit]

The pain after having a mastoidectomy was the worst pain I have ever suffered. I was in agony and the painkillers didn't work. I spent the first few days after the operation crying because the pain I was in was unbearable.

[angel.vamp]

I would have said gallstones last week, but now i am sitting here with a broken knee cap thats sore ...
Had the perforated eardrum a few times would put that a close third.
mind you shattering my ankle was blooming sore too .. that took a 51/2 hour op to fix !!
having a child was a breeze..

[acousticno3]

As someone who has had 2 kids (second without any analgesia at all), suffers from migraines and has ulcerative colitis - I would say the worst pain I have ever had was a combo of wisdom tooth extraction followed by dry socket and dental infection - no contest!.

Didn't realise I was in labour with my second child because the contraction pain is exactly the same as the pain i have every day with UC 9hence why I had no analgesia with second child - too late to have any by the time I realised I was in labour!).

Dental pain is the only pain I have ever felt like topping myself because of - it has a unique way of stopping you thinking, concentrating or caring about anything - it certainly grinds you down.

[shackfan]

For me it was kidney stones that the doc said I would have to wait till they come out. I was doubled up for 3 days. Second worst was gout in my big toe

[Hotelier]

Another kidney stone here. pain was so bad I seriously considered knocking myself out...the pain eventually made me physically vomit..which somehow must have shifted it, because shortly after, the pain went away completly.
A visit to the doc the next day, some tests at hospital, and a stone was diagnosed. Given advice on diets and liquid intake and prescribed blood pressure reducing tablets...touch wood, havent had a stone since..


Felt like a red hot poker had been being inserted into my lower back and out through my groin....

[QofSheba]

Originally Posted by jra

Well, the answer isn't childbirth, that is for sure, despite various claims by women on here. It isn't.

My vote goes for a trapped spinal nerve. If you want sheer agony for a week, go for that. That's a week, not 3 minutes.

Childbirth however painful will be a walk in the park, simply because it doesn't last a week, for one thing.

I have to agree. I didn't scream once during childbirth, not even when I had appendicitis that went undetected or what followed, but having treatment for a slipped disc which is pressing on a nerve ending I actually cried in pain. The only other was a toothache which kept me awake at nights. I think the worst pain are the ones which invlve nerves ie yours and toothache.

[jra]

Originally Posted by Amica

The thread is about the worst pain you've ever experienced. You dismiss the experiences of others as you know best. I didn't realise that this was a competition!

(at your assumptions)

Well, you've got your answer here.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=113

[goonst]

This'll sound extremely stupid but getting my hair bleached is up there. Sitting around with my head covered in foil and the overhead hairdryers on was nippy but okay, but the 'toner' - don't even really know what that is but it had to go on for ten minutes and it honestly felt like someone was slicing my scalp clean off. I was sweating and hyper-salivating, I felt like I was going to vomit and my legs were shaking like hell. They used a different treatment the next couple of times I went blonde and it was never quite as bad as that, because jesus christ was that awful.

Other than that I've broken my arm which was damn painful, have had period pains which have left me immobile and drenched in sweat, and have had some pretty terrible food poisoning which was so painful I sobbed (takes a lot of pain to make me cry). I've been bloody lucky compared to most people on this thread.

[pugamo]

For me it was when I woke up from getting my ovarian cyst removed. Just after the operation and before the morphine kicked in. I was cut from hip to hip and boy could I feel it. Thankfully it only lasted about 10 minutes before the staff got sick of listening to me make feral noises and gave me a mega dose of morphine straight into my bloodstream.

[Victoria Sponge]

Originally Posted by goonst

This'll sound extremely stupid but getting my hair bleached is up there. Sitting around with my head covered in foil and the overhead hairdryers on was nippy but okay, but the 'toner' - don't even really know what that is but it had to go on for ten minutes and it honestly felt like someone was slicing my scalp clean off. I was sweating and hyper-salivating, I felt like I was going to vomit and my legs were shaking like hell. They used a different treatment the next couple of times I went blonde and it was never quite as bad as that, because jesus christ was that awful.

You still doing that Goonst?

[jra]

Originally Posted by pugamo

For me it was when I woke up from getting my ovarian cyst removed. Just after the operation and before the morphine kicked in. I was cut from hip to hip and boy could I feel it. Thankfully it only lasted about 10 minutes before the staff got sick of listening to me make feral noises and gave me a mega dose of morphine straight into my bloodstream.

That sounds bad. Are you OK now?

Literally ouch.

[pugamo]

Originally Posted by jra

That sounds bad. Are you OK now?

Literally ouch.

Yeah thanks, that was a few weeks ago, the wound is healing very slowly for some reason so its still sore but I don't need constant painkillers or anything, phew! I don't have much to compare that too though and hope I never do, looking at this thread. You know what else is ridiculously sore, trapped wind!

[AnKah]

Emotional or physical?

Physically it would be flying off of my scooter when I was nine and not being able to move properly because this bone would click on my right side every time I tried.

Emotionally...I have two. Seeing, or rather hearing my mother every now and then, yelping loudly in pain due to a frozen shoulder, but not being able to help relieve the pain.
The second....the best way I could describe it is when you're at place where the idea of committing suicide seems pointless, any other action than this is accompanied by the question 'why bother?', and you want to cry but can't.

[goonst]

Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge

You still doing that Goonst?

No, I know I mentioned it on another similar thread but I am a repetitive person sometimes. I'm back to brown now and it is a bloody relief. I know it's nothing compared to getting sawn open or having trapped nerves or well, most things, but hot damn it hurt.

[WinterFire]

My worst ever pain was a kidney stone. An order of magnitude worse than anything else. When I had a wisdom tooth out it wasn't bad at all, and I didn't bother taking the painkillers I had after the local anesthetic wore off.

[flashgordon1952]

breaking my leg again (fracture) simply by walking along the pavement (did not even fall)

[teachers-pet]

I agree toothache is awful. I believe cholecystitis and gall stones come above that but acute pancreatitis must be my all time number 1 pain of all pains! Not something I would ever want to go through again, thought I was dying to be honest.

[snakecharmer37]

Originally Posted by Biffo the Bear

I had something done to my tooth last week, but it doesn't seem to have worked. Since then, I've been having to sip cold water every two minutes to swill on the tooth to stop it hurting briefly.

I repeat this until I pass out (I've had about 30 hours sleep since a week last THursday).

ANYWAY,

I'm off to the dentist tomorrow morning and thought, what they hey, let's see what happens if I don't swill water on my tooth.

If only I could describe to you the three minutes of pure agonising pain that I've just experienced, after which my body's natural painkillers appear to have kicked in... or the tooth has gotten over the lack of cold water to soothe it.

Is there any pain worse than acute dental pain?

I feel your pain. Being terrified of dentists and other medical problems means I have had in the past chronic toothache. It got so bad a few years ago, that rather then go to a dentist, I pulled the thing out myself. Nearly passed out doing it mind, and I certainly would not recommend anyone else doing the same. Fortunately now, I had all my teeth sorted out at hospital under anesthetic.
That was the worse pain I have ever had and I hope neither of us have to go through it again.