Your Worst Pain ,What Was It?

[Bobbisox1]

Mine was the estrangement with my son( now over, thank God )
Secondly was Shingles, that was physically really painful

[lankeela]

Cistitis! Taken to hospital in the middle of the night by ambulance - they thought it was appendicitis!

[andres]

Shingles.

[Bobbisox1]

Andres, the pain from shingles is unimaginable

[LadyCG]

2012 - losing my nan to cancer, having a head-on collision and finding out my vile fiancé was having an affair, all in the space of 12 days.

2016 - going through a breast cancer scare with my mother walking out of my life before I'd got the all-clear, having an ectopic pregnancy that necessitated life-saving surgery and losing my beloved dog - truly my annus horribilis.

[andres]

It was back in 1949 ,nothing then only Calamine lotion. The nerve endings in my shoulder gave me painful episodes for years after.

[ladybirder]

Can't talk about it.

[Bobbisox1]

Gosh Lcg ,that’s a lot

[Bobbisox1]

LB , that’s fine :0)

[Buenchico]

I enjoyed having shingles! I found that the skin sensation when my clothes rubbed against my body, or when I got into bed, was like having eaten the hottest chilli in the world. As someone who thinks that any decent chilli dish should immediately make sweat flow in gushes from every pore in one's body, and even from one's fingernails, while one struggles for breath, I loved it!

The worst physical pain I'd had until a few years ago was from orchitis, when one of my testicles swelled to several times its normal size. (Ouch!). However the kidney pain I experienced after not peeing for 11 days a few years ago definitely fell into the same category!

I don't really suffer from much emotional pain; I tend to just take whatever life throws at me with a very large pinch of salt. However the death of my beloved Biscuit https://postimg.cc/t12NYHbr under the wheels of a car 2½ years ago hit me quite hard.

[andres]

^^^^ to Bobbi @ 22.01

[retrocop]

I suppose it was attending a traffic injury where a young boy was wiped up by a careless driver on a pedestrian crossing out side Queen Mary’s hospital . My colleague and I tried CPR for about 40 minutes in turns. We could see several ambulances outside A&E opposite but had to wait for an ambulance to be despatched via their control. In hindsight we could of picked up the young lad and crashed through the doors to get quicker more effective recovery treatment. As a traffic officer I was no stranger to fatal accidents but I am not ashamed to admit I cried when I got home later that evening. So needless and pointless. It still hurts like it was yesterday.

[Bobbisox1]

Something that will never leave you retro

[vulcan42]

Telling my two sons aged 10 & 12 their mother had died of cancer.

[retrocop]

Too true Bobbi. All other fatalities I attended are just barely memorable but not that one. Hopeless and guilt still reign supreme.

[Unsureme]

Had Shingles on my face,looked like quasimodo but nothing beats the pain from Gout. imo.

[-SharonA-]

My back. In early 2000, my back went, couldn't move, the spasms were horrific. Ended up in hospital. Touch wood, although my back has had it's gingerly moments it's been ok.

[Barmaid]

I had a gynae problem when I was 19, i really thought that if the pain got any worse I would die. I was on a coach to London at the time. Victoria coach station ended up a bit congested whilst they waited for an ambulance for me.

Kidney stones were comparable. Holy moly that was bad. I wanted to rip out my own insides.

[andy-hughes]

Gout is really nasty - haven't had a bout for a few months I am happy to say.

An abscessed tooth was not pleasant either.

The pain of urinating after a prostate exam, which must have involved a canula down my penis, was horrific. It was worse because of the build-up, knowing I was going to have to pee, and it was going to hurt like nothing else, and then continue like that for about fifteen minutes!

Removal of tonsils and half of soft palate felt like having my throat cut over and over again.

But the top of the pain tree for me has to be neuralgia.

That made me weep like a little boy, I have never known pain like it, and hope I never will again.

[ladybirder]

OK. It was the awful pain when my youngest son died in 1994. It still hasn't gone away.

[puzzled54]

Frozen shoulder