Most painful thing ever

[OBonio]

Having been sat on the toilet the last 5 days with food poisoning, I'm thinking of placing the accompanying cramps in my top 3 most painful things I've experienced in life so far. This is the current standing :

1. Cluster headache
2. Bowel cramps from food poisoning
3. Removal of packing from pilonidal sinus wound

What are other AB'ers experiences?

[louby_lou]

Migraines ae the worst, I think, although I did once bang my head really badly on metal window frame which bloody hurt!

I can imagine childbirth would have to be the ultimate, but I haven't had that pleasure yet!

[maximo]

I once had a really bad ear infection, for which I spent a month in hospital. This was by far the most horrible, agonising pain I have personnaly ever experienced. Never again, touch wood !

[jakesi]

 When I was 5 years old I fell off a 5ft ledge face first on to concerete floor and smashed my front teeth in. Don't remember much but I bet it hurt like hell. Ouch.

[IndieSinger]

I once had something called, I think, Tautecollis... or something similar. It meant that gradually, over the first few hours in the early morning, your neck seized up until it was completely stuck in one position. I couldn't move my neck one way or t'other. And if I did... that was true pain. The hardest thing about it was getting over the habit of turning your head if you heard a noise/someone called your name/you wanted to look at the TV/you wanted to eat etc.

[IndieSinger]

Just looked it up and it's Tauticollis.

[blueeyedlass]

toothache and earache have to be the worst pain in the world its the kind of intense pain that if you had a gun handy you,d use it!! and yes childbirth is reallllllly painful but its different as you know that you,re getting something amazing out of it,come on if it wasnt worth the pain then all women would only ever have one child. bye bye.!!.

[krissy04]

I get wicked bad migranes, to the point where i can barley see. I also punched the wall before, and with my luck, I hit the beam and smashed my knucles in and broke a bone in my hand..that was really painful!!!

 

[BUNNY]

I had Campyllobacter food poisoning a few years ago and ended up in hospital for a week.I have never experienced pain like it!It is meant to be the same feeling as advanced labour,and my sister who has 4 children had it too at one stage and said the food poisoning was worse.That said,I'd imagine labour has to be up there in terms of the worst type of pain.Also I think gallstones are meant to rank as the most extreme medical pain but thank God I've not had that.

[CHOPS'R'US]

Some of your's sound pretty bad my worst have to be, when i was 11 i got hit on my butt by a car travelling well over the speed limit and it knocked my flying i fell head first on the pavement and had concussion and the worst migraine for 4 whole days, even taking a footstep was like a bass drum smacking my head into a wall it was pure agony. I had a hernia op just above my belly button and couldn't stand up straight for a week and that was pretty painful too. I used to suffer with horrendous period pains when i was at school and passed out several times and even threw up in a corridor after one of my GCSE's that was awful plus very embarrasing, a teacher ran out of the office and said "Oh dear" and put a bin in front of my which i then proceeded to honk up uncontrollably for what seemed forever but it was more like 3 minutes. Good job i left school at 16 i would never have lived that down....

[Bangkok]

My colleagues laugh when I have to declare previous injuries for insurance purposes ahead of team building exercises - 19 broken bones and 3 slipped discs!  One of the slipped discs was particularly painful, but the least fond memory was amoebic dysentery, possibly influenced by being stuck in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur with a chambermaid who insisted on cleaning the bathroom twice a day.

[mbearzodiac]

i woke up one morning paralysed from the neck down also could not speak to allert my partner...after about 2 hours it wore off but i could hardly walk..so my partner had to roll me off the bed to go to the loo and assist me..i then spent a month in bed a friend kindly popped by with painkillers..as our doctor wont come as he only does oap visits so i grinned it ouch....as soon as i could i went to the gp who gave me arthritis tablets they didnt work so back i went and demanded a blood test and i virtually had to bully the gp into taking these tests anyway they found i was deficient in b12 and because it had not been caught in time i now have nerve damage to my foot and back and have to have injections for life to keep it under control..as the next injection is due you start feeling ill again as its worn off..and sometimes i can hardly walk for the pain in my foot and it makes you sweat and feel sick as its so severe...a lot of it is because my body jusy stopped absorbing vitamins and its also genetic mainly in people of celtic origin... also i am a vegetarian and b12 is mainly found in food of animal origin...mbearzodiac

[Octavius]

Touch wood I haven't had anything too painful - there will always be someone worse off I am sure.

 

But if you have ever had your ear syringed - ow!

 

 

[Moog]

Root canal - no general... killed me!

[smudge]

Apart from labour pains & some post op pains, I have to say that passing a kidney stone was the most excrutiating pain I have ever experienced & hope that I never go through it again..

[smudge]

Had another think since my last post.

Period pains - so bad & having to crawl on all fours from the bedroom to the bathroom - not nice.

Trapped nerves - in my neck & lower back & having to have cortisone injections for it - the relief.

Migraine headaches - with flashing lights/zigzag lines, in fact the works!

[galltin]

Yes smudge I've been told that kidney pains (of various types )are the worse. Renal colic and as you say passing stones are supposedly the worse. Post -op pain can be a total nightmare till the morphine kicks in. I've had 5 nephrectomies and they were the worse pain I've had.

[undercovers]

shashing my two front teeth in half wasn't painful at all - what did sting a bit was having 4 metal poles drilled through what remained of my teeth, past the exposed nerves, through my gum and into the jaw bone so that the sodding dentist could contruct some new nashers for me... he then had the cheek to tell me it was a tempory fix until i'd finished growing and would need to replace them within a maximum of 4 years - this was 14 years ago and i am never going back (i have very manky teeth)

[SGKelloe32]

Yes, definitley childbirth withut pain reliefand then severe migraines!

[nicola_red]

I had my leg lengthened.  They open you up, break the femur, attach an external fixator which is screwed into the bones and then you use an allen key to turn the fixator and increase the gap in the bone.  I had a 50mm difference between legs so I had to turn 1mm a day for 50 days.  The last two weeks were constant agony.  The painkillers upset my stomach so I couldn't eat and felt sick most of the time, I broke out in terrible spots and got infections in the sites where the fixator pins went through my skin.  I was thoroughly miserable.  When I finally had the fixator removed, I lost 3 pints of blood during surgery and had nausea and a racing heartbeat for the next 3 days until the doctors realised what was wrong and gave me a transfusion.  That was pretty grim as well.  Nowadays I am proud of my experiences (8 operations in total) and love my scars, but it was no fun at the time.

[Scarlett]

I had physio on my knee after an operation, and in, order to loosen up the muscles, the physiotherapist yanked my leg and bent it so far that there was an almighty snap, and I screamed and started to cry!! (I was 13.) To this day I am convinced that that was BAD practice!! But by far the most painful thing I have experienced.