What hurts worse than childbirth? - Page 4

[SublimeBirthGirl]

I haven't ever had a more painful experience than birth, but I'd MUCH MUCH MUCH rather give birth than have a migraine. Both throwing out my back and having migraines were worse than my births. Not more painful, but way more miserable somehow.

[RileysmamaNM]

I've had migraines way worse then childbirth, honestly childbirth didn't hurt for me. Migraines, the day after getting my wisdom teeth pulled, doing too many sit-ups that's been worse. Going to the bathroom for the first time after labor hurt more also.. Physical pain really isn't too bad for me.

[candipooh]

Yah migraines can be pretty close. Some of the sittings for my tattoo were pretty close too. Just a little FWI....don't get a tattoo when you are ovulating. You are way more sensative.

[PGTlatte]

When I broke my leg rollerblading, a spiral fracture of my tibia (shin) and fibula, it was WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY more painful than our second child's unmedicated birth. And it was a pain that no amount of morphine could dull, and it went on for over twelve hours, until I had surgery the next morning to set it. All night I was begging the nurses to have them go ahead and put me under (of course they can't do that)...and when they arrived to take me to surgery in the morning, I remember saying "oh thank GOD you are here, would you all PLEASE put me to sleep now ??!!!"

In fact, back when I broke that leg, my doctor told me that the upside was that having been through that amount of pain, I would probably find birth to be a walk in the park if I had children some day (he was trying to cheer me up). He wasn't that far off, and I think part of the reason I was not overwhelmed by pain was that I had already been through much worse. I think it might do something to your brain to be in that much pain.

Originally Posted by truemists

Can anyone else think of any pains worse than their experience giving birth?

[JanetF]

PTSD for coming up on 4 years now from a birthrape, being suicidal, not pushing out my baby, living with the injuries to his body, the memory of hours spent begging to be taken to my baby. That all hurts a heap more than the 50-something hours of strong labour I had to birth his sister at home.

[sunshine's mama]

getting hit by a car 10 years ago...

i would much rather go through my pitocin induction (when i didn't know better or know MDC existed..) 3.5y ago than get one of the migranes i used to get that lasted for days with auras and such...

amazingly though, after i had that daughter, my migranes like that went away and so did all of my allergies and hay fever????!!!! it's wonderful!!!!

[Nannysbaby]

Worst pain of my life...when I woke up from the anesthesia after having my hysterectomy and pretty much that whole first day. I was drugged to the nines, but could not even open my eyes due to that excruciating pain...second only to ovarian cysts, which quite frankly are very similar to labor pains. My doctor tried to explain that pain to DH..he said "take your left testicle and crush it"...he got that point.

[danotoyou2]

Recovering from a cesarean! That was a misery that lasted for weeks. I've never had broken bones or any other major health problems, but a painful sciatic nerve in my first pregnancy was awful! Much worse than any pain of childbirth.

My VBAC was relatively painless, so there are a lot of things more painful. Have I ever WORKED harder in my life? Nope. But it wasn't pain.

I've had bad tooth aches, headaches, back aches, etc... and I would say that they hurt more, but labor is so intense!!! So, I'd rather have a headache than go through the hours of labor again... plus the fact that I'm losing my mind with two kids, I don't know what I'd do with more!

[triscuitsmom]

I had a very traumatic hospital birth that was not a positive experience for me (with of course the exception being my beautiful baby). It was not an empowering in control homebirth that I hope my next is...

And bad as it was it does not even come close to having an inflamed, abcess that hurt so bad I was screaming with noone even touching it being cut into with a scalpel and no anethestic at all...

Nothing has ever hurt worse than that and I can't imagine anything ever coming close...

[Viola]

Originally Posted by candiland

Laying on the floor literally screaming in pain overnight...........from about 9 pm until 6am... I still don't know what caused that pain, but I had waves upon waves upon waves of the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life.

Wow, you still don't know what caused it? What kind of pain was it, and was it all over, or just in certain parts of your body. For some reason I'm intrigued. I'd be worried it might come back.

Or maybe it was a voodoo doll. Everytime I get those stabbing pains for no reason that cause me to yell out, I figure someone is sticking a pin in my doll.

[*Erin*]

Originally Posted by rharr!

Healing from childbirth
and
nursing through breast infections :

: and also, the time i had an abcessed tooth. so much worse. oh. so much.

[Cutie Patootie]

Kidney stones, gallstones...and a perforated eardrum that had gotten infected. That was the most maddening pain I have ever had. I actually remember lying in bed kicking the walls in insanity. I had a gallstone attack and I really thought I was going to die...literally and I used to have migraines so severe that I was afraid to get out of bed for fear of putting a knife through my head to end the pain. All have been worse than childbirth for me. My first birth was vaginal after 56.5 hours of back labor with a lovely side of Pitocin. All in all, I think I have a pretty high tolerance for pain.

[MilkTrance]

My birth was horrible, but I have to say that while the contractions hurt a LOT, once they introduced the Pit-drip (not progressing "fast enough," or whatever), they were mind-numbingly, suicidally-painful.

So for me, fake childbirth hurt worse than childbirth.

[DoomaYula]

Gallbladder attack and then subsequent gallbladder removal surgery. PAIN -- it lasted weeks! I could not believe how sore my tummy was after that surgery.

[onelilguysmommy]

umm..almost absessed teeth.
both times of being in labor, i didnt scream or cry, or anything, and umm..i did a lot of both with my teeth hurting. it hurt so bad i ws seeing black and stars.

i didnt really get the ring of fire thing with my first, the doc was threatening me with a vacuum for not pushing fast enough (and i got him out in 7 pushes..wtf? she shoved the freakin thing in me and i wanted to knock her more than one. omg that HURT.) and that tore me. very bare\ly, but my skin was split by it, and him conming through hurt as well because of that (and yes, going to the bathroom after it stung a lot. it didnt dawn on my that the spray would hurt, i didnt even think of that, lol.) my second, it didnt even hurt as much as a really strong sensation that i cant remember the word for.. labor hurt, not horribly, but it did hurt. pushing him out (2 real pushes, i did bare down down through a couple more, but not to push, i used my stomach muscles pushing against the contrax, not to get him out.) but it didnt really hurt to get him out, seriously. and his head was an inch smaller than my first though e was almost a 1b larger and i had no pain there after either.

so ive thought about it more. yeah, my teeth hurt way more. afterpains with my2nd that came out of nowhere and were way stronger than contractions hurt really badly. those both were worse than labor and definitely worse than birthing.

and this is something i thought of while in labor...comparing it to other pain in my life. seriously.

[hanno]

This thread is making me seriously rethink getting my impacted wisdom teeth removed.

[nitemarehippygirl]

Originally Posted by hanno

This thread is making me seriously rethink getting my impacted wisdom teeth removed.

you know, i guess that's one of those experiences that varies wildly. i got a couple of impacted wisdom teeth taken out, and although it was sore for nearly a month, it really didn't hurt that much for me. more like it was aggravating when i tried to eat or whatever. i was bf at the time, and so they didn't give me any pain meds, and i was able to suck it up and manage without it. (i just remember i came home and slept the rest of the day after i had it done...)

for me, it wasn't even on the radar with childbirth...lol

don't be scared. if you're able to get a day or two worth of pain meds, you may find it's not that big of a deal (but if it's awful for you, don't come find me and shoot me. )

[mama to 2 girls]

When I was 10 yrs. old, I broke my foot....IN HALF!!! Yes, in half...plus 3 toes. The big bone that is behind your big toe was sticking out of my foot! Now that was PAIN!! HAHA! I was screaming and moaning! That was pain I will NEVER forget! I have already forgotten about the pain of both by dd's births and my first was pitocin induced!

[jerawo]

I haven't read any of the other replies, but for me it was breastfeeding those first few weeks! I told DH that DS was going to be an only child because I could do the drug free birth again, but I could never breastfeed an infant again. Of course I'm pregnant with #2 now...

[wonderwahine]

my gallbladder hurt alot more than what I remember of my labor.