What is the most pain you've ever endured?

redlad12

Very bad sunburn

BalcombeSt4

Inflamed appendix, much harder to get out, and unlike a normal appendix scar which goes across, my scar is about x2 longer than average & going at a 90 degree angle.

Back tooth pain is worse than a kick in the balls, balls pain only lasts a short time, toothache can last hours or days.

ednwireland

Finger rebroken to reset after a week in plaster not nice

appledrop

Definitely tooth pain is the worst. I got my wisdom teeth out all at once years ago while knocked out.

I was grand for first few days after the op then I got an infection and my cheeks blew up, I looked like a chipmunk.

I'll never forget the pain for as long as I live. I was on really strong opium painkillers + I may aswell have been taken smarties and I say that as someone who normally only take paracetamol once or twice a year! The pain in my jaw and headaches day and night was unbelievable.

I'll never forget being up all night screaming with the pain. It took two weeks to heal.

I also had appendicitis and that was unreal pain aswell but at least only for a day until you get the operation!

Childbirth certainly wasn't pleasant but I was dreading it so much + not as bad as I expected relatively speaking!

No I'll never forget those f**kers my wisdom teeth!

appledrop

Nigel, vertigo is horrific.

I never suffered from it until after the birth of my son. Thankfully I only get very random attacks maybe once a year but I can't get out of bed with it.

If I need to use bathroom could take me an hour to make it and I'll vomit a few times along the way.

The last two times I've called out the doctor + they give me some injection that definitely helps, so I'd recommend that. Thankfully mine usually only lasts a day or two.

I used to hear people saying they had it and I just thought, oh they must be a bit dizzy, it's only when you have it yourself you realise how horrific it is.

smillingsam

Spent almost 2 years suffering with sciatica, constant pain, could stand up straight or walk more than a dozen steps at a time for almost a year at its worst, a horrible experience

appledrop

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654045#Comment_117654045

I have to say I don't know how people cope with long term pain. I would never be able for it. I've been through a few illnesses in my time but very lucky that none were long term.

mikethecop

had a good few painful experiences

one novel one is sneezing with a few broken ribs ,

the pain is intense but the 6 weeks of fear that you will sneeze is almost as bad

Mad_maxx

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654056#Comment_117654056

Even worse is how few doctors take it at all seriously, had an orthopaedic consultant tell me " chronic pain doesn't exist "

Dues Bellator

I had a heart attack that pain was otherworldly the reason I say this is to give you an idea how much pain I was in when I had my perfectly  healthy big toe nail ripped out to the root. I passed out from the pain numerous times, while my heart attack was absolutely extraordinarily painful it was not as bad a the toe nail.

Esel

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654166#Comment_117654166

Out of interest, how did that happen?

Edit: the toenail, I mean.

smillingsam

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654159#Comment_117654159

I agree, i actually had to switch doctors a few times because all the first ones done were fill me up with tablets and tell me everything will be ok eventually, as you said, I felt like they weren't taking me seriously and that I was exaggerating my symptoms.

Nigel Fairservice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654032#Comment_117654032

On paper Vertigo doesn't sound too bad but the reality of it is terrible. I felt room spinningly drunk for a week and had to sit upright in a chair with my eyes closed while trying not to move. It was a horrible experience.

fryup

is emotional pain tougher than physical pain?

personally i think so, you can recover from physical pain but emotional pain still lingers in the background 😔

Complete rupture of Achilies tendon. All three of the calf muscles (gastrocnemius, soleus, and plantaris) were up behind my knee.

Only time I came close to passing out from pain. Still remember everything going fuzzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109754216#Comment_109754216

Yeah, forgot about the wisdom tooth.

Had right upper come down too far and impacted the lower. Upper came out in 30 seconds and a few taps. Lower was pushed back into the jaw and needed to be shattered into 4 pieces to get pulled out.

Gael23

An impacted bowel 7 years ago. It felt like someone was standing on my stomach

bladespin

Longer term, I had a viral infection a few years back that resulted in viral arthritis: severe pain when moving any joint, I honestly don’t know how anyone could live with that long term, thankfully after several misdiagnosis it was discovered and treated successfully.

Second, had a tooth taken out that broke mid extraction meaning the dentist had to drill the root out, dear God that was the worst, most intense pain I’ve known, felt like I’d been sledgehammered on the jaw for days afterwards.

Midlands Minnie

Gallstone pain is the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life. Knowing that painkillers wont work and also it was going to last 3-4 hours was horrific, its like a heart attack x 2. Also cramps with IBS D, I nearly fainted a couple of times and also threw up the pain was so bad.

sporina

wisdom tooth pain

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117636589#Comment_117636589

Oooooh. 😯😯

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117645259#Comment_117645259

I think I saw that episode of Eastenders.

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117636462#Comment_117636462

Weird to see this thread get a necro-bump.

Still dealing with it, still medicating it with ever more varieties of neuropathic, opioid and analgesic meds.

The last few days have been bad with a combo of meds and icepacks needed to get out of bed.

The pain itself is bad, but having to arrange your life around it, having to manage every movement even to delay a flare up, is as exhausting as the pain itself.

The last year in particular, my better half was battling cancer(That's gone well 😉) has been a perpetual battle to make sure I'm well enough to support her.

Fúck cancer and fúck pain!

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109754045#Comment_109754045

I've done that. Was running to the offy in Ranelagh and stepped on a curb, but only half way. The next day my ankle was black and blue and swollen about twice the size. That was pain. Also broke two metatarsals in a separate accident. That too was pain. However neither of those are in the same class of pain as I had recently.

I was curling, like Canadian curling. I was early and me and a buddy decided to throw a few rocks (that's what they are called) down the sheet. I threw my 1st one a bit heavy. I threw my 2nd one a bit light so I decided to run after it and try to sweep in front on it to make it go a bit further. Well kids, take it from me, don't run on the ice!

I came crashing down ribs first on to the ice. I knocked the wind out of myself. Once I caught my breath a little I was able to stand up again. I fell a bit sore on my side but didn't think too much of it. Some guy there recommended I take an Ibuprofen, which I did. That day wasn't too bad but the next day and for the next 5 weeks I was in a very gradually reducing amount of extreme pain. Sleep was near impossible at the start. I was alternating between Aleve and Ibuprofen for nearly a month.

TL;DR Bruised ribs is far more painful than foot or ankle pain.

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109754238#Comment_109754238

Had something similar. I was comparing then to mangoes though. Got an infection from the sea in the south of France. TBH it was more discomfort than pan for me. A dose of antibiotics and all was well with the world again.

Had to get a lumbar epidural injection for chronic lower back pain a few years ago. If an epidural is what woman want to relieve pain during childbirth then I can’t imagine how painful childbirth must be.

richbo

Kidney stone by a country mile for me. I genuinely wanted to die. The second most painful thing I endured was after I woke up after said kidney stones removal. They sent a camera and some sort of grabbing device up through the eye of my you know what and dragged it all the way out from my kidney. This was 20 years ago and I still have stone in jar!

fish fingers

Woke up with a twisted testicle, had to get operated on straight away. unreal pain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109754255#Comment_109754255

I had a kidney removed and it was grand , but I heard stones are the worst 😂 I had back pain once and asked my father about kidney stones and he asked me was I on the ground crying in pain , I said no , and he said then it’s not kidney stones 😂

FlubberJones

Bulging disc on the upper middle back / lower neck, ridiculous pain whenever I moved, breathed, slept... you name it.

Nothing worked and in the end simply taking painkillers, (that basically put me in a stupor) and doing nothing for about two weeks, until it subsided.

It's still there in the background for the last year, but nothing like it was when it happened, the MRI indicated spinal surgery but I declined as this was a last resort and I just didn't want to start down that road.

That was the worst.