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Logically I'm pretty sure it must have been either my 51 hour unmedicated labor or my <2 hour unmedicated labor. Breastfeeding stands out to me though. Everting an inverted nipple is no joke.
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Its a 3 way tie between going from 4-10 centimeters dilated in an hour, waking up after having metal rods placed in my broken wrist, and pressure building up under a filling causing the need for an emergency root canal
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C got stuck on my pelvic bone during delivery and somehow that caused the worst pain in my life in my left hip. I had an epidural but for some reason it didn't put a dent in the hip pain. I was that lady who was screaming and crying in the delicery room
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most recently: unmedicated pushing (2 hours!) and the back labor... ughhhhh....
also: tattoo removal... but after 20+ sessions its not as awful! sort of good preparation for L&D
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Interestingly, I've been through a couple things people listed on this thread (everting an inverted nipple, and dentist draining an infection after wisdom teeth removal with no pain relief) and didn't find them painful at all. Weird how our bodies respond to things.
Mine is, without a doubt, crowning. Nothing else in my life comes within miles of that. Menstrual cramps would be a far, far distant second, and they are very severe for me.
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Birth contractions before epidural for both my babies and crowning with dd were painful of course, but manageable (plus I got a baby afterwards!)
A few weeks ago I got a root canal, and was literally in tears afterward, and in significant pain for almost a week.
I also have loads of back problems (herniated discs, degenerative discs, and a fractured vertebrae) that cause me severe issues with pain from time to time -
Waking up from my emergency C section (General anesthesia) with no pain meds, literally nothing even though I was just cut open.
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1. Norovirus stomach and intestinal cramping
2. Labor
3. Dry socket after wisdom teeth extraction/car accident with whiplash resulting in herniated disks in neck are tied -
Kidney infection. I couldn't breathe right it hurt so badly. But I had a scheduled c-section so I missed out on labor pains.
@Mrs. Tiger: Ahhh I feel like I'm going to pass out just reading that!
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Worst pain ever was my uterus rupturing while in the hospital trying to figure out why I was losing consciousness at 22 weeks pregnant. No pain meds, etc yet. I passed out because of it.
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A few years ago, I had an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured my fallopian tube. I didn't even realize I was pregnant until I got to the hospital. I was hemorrhaging (I almost bled out) and that was definitely the worst pain I have ever experienced.
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Pushing during unmedicated childbirth. Pushing hurt 1,000,000 times more than the contractions themselves.
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@Mrs. Tiger: That is terrifying!
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@Mae: Oh my gosh, I forgot about that! I was in the same boat when I got mine. I was just glad the bathrooms were in an opposite wing of the clinic from the waiting area so nobody could hear me sobbing trying to pee in the cup. Walking to the pharmacy (no car) was awful as well. I elected to wait for my meds, and the woman at the soda fountain took pity on me and gave me a free soda while I waited (I looked terrible, like I was in extreme pain).
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@My Only Sunshine: @LAZB: yup, it sucked!
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@Mrs. Tiger: could you feel your incision? I really had no pain post c section which I know is unusual. But even now 15 mo later my incision area for a few inches above and below is completely numb. I think they must've hit done nerves or something.
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C section for LO 1 with a failed spinal.
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By a million miles, unmedicated labor, especially pushing. I regret not getting an epidural and hope to never do that again (the unmedicated part).
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1. Labor and delivery. I felt like I was dying a cruel and unusual death.
2. Throwing out my back- omg killer.
3. Viral colitis
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When I was pushing with DD1 and when I had an infection in my toe...it was BAD. I cried a lot both of those times.
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I slipped a disk in my back at work (while sitting in my desk chair?!?), passed out from the pain and slid onto the floor. When I came to I couldn't move my legs and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. It didn't help matters that my veins were collapsed and the EMTs were beating on my hands to find one to give me pain meds.
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Gallstones in my pancreas.
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Is it ridiculous that only 2 weeks post partum I already can't remember if pushing or contractions felt worse? I almost can't remember the pain at all. Only what I was telling ppl it felt like at the time.
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1) Pitocin- induced labor, a failed epidural that confined me to the bed and forced me to lay down, and going from dilated 7cm to 10cm, in 45 minutes. Felt all of it, couldn't get up and move through it- so horrendous all I could do was whimper, while my body shook violently.
2) Having my broken arm reset without any pain meds.
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My second labor with DS. It was insane, 10X worse, compared to my first labor with DD.
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1. No meds labour with DD2.
2. All 4 wisdom teeth pulled when I was 17. I thought I was going to die. -
A back spasm while in labor with DD2. I was sweating, puking, couldn't breathe.
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It's a toss up between labour and recovery. Back labour was absolutely horrible, but there was a baby at the end. With my recovery, my 30+ stitches got infected and the internal exam to see what was wrong was still the worst pain I can remember.
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4 wisdom teeth when I was 32, worse than back labor & episiotomy. I couldn't eat solid food for almost a month and to take some serious pain meds.
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1.) labor with ds. I have never screamed so loud and uncontrollably in my life! I felt like my body was being sawed in half.
2.) trying to walk again after breaking my ankle and being off of it for so long.
3.) abscessed tooth about a year after I had trauma to it.
4.) labor with dd
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Crushed arm and shoulder in a car accident when I was in college.
I guess inmedicated childbirth comes second, but since the pain passes so quickly afterwards, it doesn't seem that bad (looking back, anyways!)
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Toothache that needed an emergency root canal is right up there with labor.
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Kidney stones. Ouch.
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Back labor during my pain-med free induction with dd
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My appendix ruptured when I was a teenager and my doc thought I had the flu (?!?). The couple hours at home before my parents took me to the ER were the most painful of my life. Like blacking out intermittently from pain.
Labor is a very distant second. And it was still so very painful.
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Pitocin contractions without any breaks between. I basically had one long contraction that lasted an hour until I got an epidural. I had been given sleeping meds beforehand, as hours of pitocin had done nothing, so they stopped it and gave me meds to sleep with a plan to restart in the morning. Of course, then I go into full on labor and I'm so groggy and sedated that I was completely unable to manage the pain.
Gallbladder pain and pre-diagnosis celiac cramps were both very close seconds.
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@Rubies: @rachiecakes: you poor things! I had no idea wisdom teeth extraction could be so painful! I had all 4 of mine done at once, and besides being a little swollen and hopped up on crazy pain meds initially, I was fine! They were impacted-- I wonder if that makes a difference, vs. pulling teeth that have come in?
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Waiting to push with a med free birth. I had to wait for my OB but my body was screaming at me to push that baby out!
Mastitis was pretty bad for me too, especially the migraine that came along with it.
Stomach virus while 10 weeks pregnant. That was no joke and I had to crawl around the house to put on clothes to get to the ER because I hurt so badly.
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1) The exact moment DS2 herniated a disc (of mine) while I was pregnant with him. I felt it pinch and pop and I actually blacked out from the pain.
2) The three weeks following that incident where I refused pain meds and tried to just deal with it.
3) Mastitis. But not the mastitis itself, recovering from the spinal tap because I was having such an intense immune response they thought there was no way it was mastitis and had to rule out meningitis. (It took 4 days in the hospital with IV medication for my white blood cell count to get below the damn-she's-dying level lol) -
@erinpye: I was told it's worse if you're over 30. They had to break a part of my jaw to get them out.
ETA mine were impacted - though one had just broken through the skin after my son was born.
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