Most Painful ("naturally occuring")

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[DanCa]

1. Does watching chimpy speak count?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Ain't nothing natural about THAT!

[benburch]

3. Women who have had heart attacks...

Say the pain is indescribably worse then childbirth.

[ccjlld]

4. Never had children

so can't compare with childbirth pain, but my last gallbladder attack was the worst pain I'd ever experienced. Before my surgery, I was talking with a nurse who had also had gallbladder problems and she told me it was worse than childbirth.

The pain from that attack lasted from around 10:00 pm and didn't end until around 2:00 pm the next day while I was in urgent care. I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone!

[Missy Vixen]

31. Never had babies either, had a gallbladder attack

The nurse at the hospital told me that a bad gallbladder attack is more painful than childbirth. It was unbelievable, and I had my fair share of "extreme sports" type injuries as a teen and in my 20's. I had my gallbladder out a month later. The surgery and recovery were a piece of cake.

I almost kissed the surgeon when I went back for my followup appointment.

Julie

[UncleSepp]

5. Trigeminal neuralgia

[flamingyouth]

7. That and kidney stones - yes.

Both are excrutiating. :(

[UncleSepp]

The kind of stuff that Morphine gives up on...

It hurts just thinking about it!

In December this year, I was in the ER a couple of times for "an earache". I felt like such a wimp asking for more pain meds, but the oxycodone was about as effective as a handful of M and Ms. Finally, on one visit, they gave me two doses of morphine that did absolutely nothing other than give me a bruise on my hand from the IV. Then, they brought out the Dilaudid - the stuff's supposedly more potent than heroin by several times. A four hour dose lasted all of 20 minutes. It was at that point I let myself think "ok, yeah... this actually does hurt a lot".

It turned out to be a question of using the right tool for the job. Neurontin knocked it out completely once the dose was high enough. Opiates do jack for nerve pain.

[flamingyouth]

10. Neurontin is good.

Someone here suggested Lyrica for TN but I just got started on a new drug for migraine so I'm sticking with the Neurontin for now. Oh joy. Hope you're feeling better. :)

[UncleSepp]

15. Sooo much better! Thank you, and I hope you're better too

I wish I could send cookies and flowers to the scientists and doctors and clinical trial patients and all the people who worked so hard to develop this drug. I wish I could meet them personally and say "thank you" for letting me get back to normal. Hell, I'd go mow all their lawns and paint all their houses! :-)

[weeble_wobble]

27. I'd vote for kidney stones too.

All i remember from my kidney stone attack is yelling at some poor man in the waiting room for looking at me, then walking down the hall, with the orderly asking me if i was the one with the hurt ankle (?)....then the morphine.

[fizzgig]

6. i've never experienced any of those

but for me, either an ear infection at 19 or my sciatica right now

[Omphaloskepsis]

8. Hands down...

epididymitis

I have had this twice.. Worst.Pain.Ever

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

30. holy mackerel, never heard of it

but I know what the epididymis is. Ow.

I've never experienced any of those choices up there so I'll go with toothache.

[purr]

9. Gallbladder pain??

uh oh.. my HIDA scan came back at 15%, full of stones and my docs were shocked that I never had a gb attack. Im scared now :scared:

[AlCzervik]

11. i've given birth and i've had a gallbladder attack, gallbladder hurt way

more and i had natural childbirth, no drugs at all--"I'm sorry, you're too dilated to give you anything now"

[gollygee]

12. I was going to type virtually the same post

natural childbirth and it hurt WAY less than a bad gallbladder attack. And my daughter was 9 lbs 12 oz.

[AlCzervik]

13. Wow!! My daughter was only 6.7, i bow to your strength!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. We of DU are not worthy!

[purr]

16. I bow to you too!

Mine were all 5 lbs.. all 3 a month early too.

[LaurenG]

17. Ok nevermind

*note to self* always read the whole thread before posting.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. I say kidney stones. I may change that opinion if I ever have a GB

attack but I had a series of renal colic attacks trying to pass a renal stone and it was horrendous.

My no drugs childbirth experience was as nothing compared to the stone. I would rather have twins without drugs than another kidney stone. And my stone wasn't that large, either.


I imagine GB is about equivalent, as I understand the presentation is so similar that if you have no history of either condition you will end up being worked up for both.

[gator_in_Ontario]

19. broken bone

[hippywife]

22. Now, ya know...

I snapped my tibia and fibula while hiking and it didn't hurt as bad as the aftermath of the surgery to put the titanium rod in my leg from knee to ankle.

I've had kidney stones numerous times and they really lay you out. My sister-in-law was passing a kidney stone while she was in labor and said it hurt way worse than childbirth. Have had several doctors and nurses tell me the same thing.

But then we all handle pain differently so it's hard to say which hurts worse unless we can find some unsuspecting guinea pig.

[Nikia]

20. Thawing my frost bitten fingers

I competed in a winter 5k race my senior year of high school. It was single digit temperatures and a strong wind. My fingers, in my thin gloves, went numb about a mile into the race. Not wanting to break form and knowing that they would just freeze again, I didn't even try to do anything to get them warm like put them in my arm pits.
When I was done with the race, my father drove me to my grandparents house a short distance away where we re thawed my fingers. The pain was horrible, the worst that I have ever felt in my fingers. I couldn't imagine my fingers hurting any worse even if they were cut off. There was no lasting damage but they did feel different for a while.
I am not sure if that was the worst pain. I have had severe pain from having my wisdom teeth out, a kidney stone, and bowel problems. These pains were all severe but different. It is really actually hard to rank them.

[AngryAmish]

21. Obviously you've never been kicked in the balls

[undeterred]

23. 24 years of migraines

Most pain you can be in where nothing is actually wrong.

[khashka]

29. Oh so true

People who don't have them don't get it.

Luckily I only get them once or twice a year now. But I remember dragging myself to the bathroom to puke my guts out - every movement, every sound, even the tiniest bit of light absolute agony. And being told "It's just a headache, take an aspirin!"

They are not so bad now. And they rarely happen. But I once begged god/goddess/whoever was listening to please let me die. And I was absolutely sincere. Migraines suck. Especially the really bad ones. Normally after you throw up, they fade. But when that doesn't work... you are in for a world of pain.

Most people can figure out what triggers them and then avoid the stimulus. Mine are seemingly random.

Khash.

[Left Is Write]

24. I've only experienced one of those, so I really can't vote. However....

I had an advanced kidney infection that was far, far more painful than any of my experiences with childbirth.

[sakabatou]

25. A twisted intestine

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. That would fall under the general category of "bowel obstruction",

although it might be somewhat more painful than even the average, because the twisting ("volvulus") would probably cause lack of blood supply to the involved segment, which can be incredibly painful.

[China_cat]

26. As a woman who has had both

babies and kidney stones...the stones are by far the more painful and unrelenting.

[robbedvoter]

28. What? No toothache? Unlike labor pain they can go on forever!