What is the most pain you've ever endured?

In order of worst first for me.

• Gallstone attack. Those were the worst, genuinely would have taken out a handgun and put myself out of that misery if I had one available.
• Burst appendix. Bad, but not as bad as gallstones.
• Childbirth. The preceding days of labour and the recovery from the stitches and infections afterwards. Not the worst pain I've ever experienced (see two above), but it went on for so much longer than the others.
• Compound fracture

I was a passenger in a car crash years ago,no seatbelt. Broked ny right arm in 14 places, my left arm in 3, my nose, my jaw, my teeth, 10 ribs and my pelvis but gallbaldder infection was the worst. A public hospital sent me home from A&E 3 times saying it was my stomach. A private A&E diagnosed me in a half hour, kept me in for 4 days with antibiotics injected every 6 hours. I'd the start of Sepsis. Then 10 weeks of antibiotics before it was settled enough to take it out.

Pain was 20 out of 10.

I've broken bones, dislocated stuff, had a ruptured appendix, adult tonsillectomy and as an example of pain threshold I submit the following.

I fractured my right thumb, dislocated it and tore the ligaments from the volar plate. Then treated it as a sprain for 5 weeks before going to get it looked at.

The worst of all the pain, I'm going thru now. Have a still vague diagnosis but it's neuropathy of the left flank that extends from behind my left nut over my entire left flank to my kidney and just below my ribcage, over my left hip and outer thigh

Pain is so severe that at times I can't walk, using stairs is a huge effort. More than 20 minutes or so upright leads to huge pain issues for the rest of the day. Meds are great but eventually you have to take more and more to be able to be pain free. Balancing pain against being able to function is a tightrope.

I am lucky in that it's not a functional issue, a tumour or a cancer. The pain won't kill me. It is getting to the point tho that it is weighing on my relationships and my ability to live a normal life.

The pain when it flares is all consuming, it really takes over and is harder and harder to manage. At its best, it's a sense of internal, burning, itching and inescapable pressure.

At its worst, it's kidney stone, combined with a kick in the Bollox, the lingering after effects of a flick, constant nausea and severe burning pain along the line from testicle to ribcage to upper thigh.

But hey, it's Tuesday, it's a bright beautiful day and I'm not dying or living in the UK 😉

So it could be worse 😛

Actually, I take back my self pitying post 😉

This wins!

Dislocated knee was deeply unpleasant. And the best bit is, it's forever weakened now so it dislocates quite often!

But I think the worst pain was having had a lumbar puncture, to investigate suspected meningitis during a University outbreak, the rebalancing of the spinal fluid causes a brain-ache that feels like your head is going to explode and leaves you temporarily blind. So perhaps more frightening than painful, but painful nonetheless.

I had an operation on my spinal cord, which resulted in an unexpected leak of spinal fluid. Doctors insisted I try and stand up after a couple of days. Whatever fluid was left in my nervous system left my brain under gravity. Never experienced pain like it. Headache is not an appropriate description. Almost puking thinking of it now

jaysus I hope you sued who ever sent you home with stomach ache

Still gout. Was in hospital in Feb, woke up and my knee was borked and my whole hand had swollen up. Couldn't give me anything as was due for a scan later that day, pure agony!

Tennis Elbow 😯 It's been really painful since January. It's my right elbow but now my left is started to ache too.

The pain of my EX leaving me to move in with my father only for my father to leave my mother and then my mother to move in with my best friend. It was the toughest week of my life.

It's a toss between being hit on the knee with a mug and sciatica.

Your description of kidney stone pain is perfect, the best I ever heard. I would also add the associated ureteric stent procedure intended to aid the passing of the stones. They say to carry on your life as normal while it is inserted for up to twelve weeks .... but it's impossible to ignore the constant feeling of being kicked in the goolies that the stent produces.

Then the removal of the stent .... through the penis.... adds loss of dignity to the list of suffering you have already endured.