Is a kidney stone the worst pain imaginable?

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Anonymous wrote:Dang....I’m getting the shivers just thinking about all this pain!

Oh my goodness, yes. It's 2am and I am supposed to go to sleep... I guess I haven't felt that much pain after all (D&C only with local, deep fillings without numbing)

Why no numbing??

[Anonymous]

I guess kidney stones are more common than I thought? And unmedicated birth, too! So many here had natural births, wow.

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Bowel obstruction was the worst pain I've ever experienced by far

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Fast tout tipped into my left testicle

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Anonymous wrote:Fast tout tipped into my left testicle

Should be ball not tout. I was not wearing a cup

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I found it comparable to a ruptured ovarian cyst, which really sucked. Unmedicated childbirth was far more acutely painful, IME, but also shorter. Four days of undermedicated renal colic was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.

[Anonymous]

I had a kidney stone and the pain was unimaginable. Like- I took the oxycodone and it did zero, and I was sweating and gritting my teeth and pacing around in my house, hunched over, crying. And this is after they determined it was a small 4mm stone that should pass on its own! The renal colic episodes were UNREAL and I remain terrified to ever have another.

Labor sucked, but it wasn’t the same level of intensity.

I had an ectopic pregnancy, that felt almost as bad in terms of pain level, but the quality of that pain - stabbing- was for some reason easier for me than the “squeezing” type pain of the kidney stone.

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I saw my tough as nails Dad three times in his life: the moment they turned off life support for my little brother, kidney stone, and saying goodbye on his deathbed. Not for herniated disks, cancer or compound fracture in his leg. I’m guessing kidney stone is pretty horrible. I did not cry during childbirth, though it was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced.

[Anonymous]

I'm an ER nurse. Kidney stones are definitely up there. I think burns are worse, but they are probably the only thing that is worse. Unmedicated birth is intense, but it's not nearly as bad as kidney stone.

[Anonymous]

Back labor pain blows kidney stone pain out of the water. It’s the worst pain in the world.

My non-back labor birth (also without pain meds), in contrast, was not even close to comparable to kidney stone pain.

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I haven’t had kidney stones (knock on wood) but here are my top three:

3. Natural labor and delivery
2. Gallstone attacks
1. Natural labor with pitocin. It felt like my pelvis was being torn apart by a crowbar. I thought I was dying and my husband said I was speaking in tongues. The epidural was a godsend.

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I went into quick labor with my son, which at the time I thought was the worse pain I have ever experienced...until I had a kidney stone. That was HORRIBLE, but thankfully the stone was small enough to move on its own, so the pain lasted for only a few hours, but it came on suddenly and without warning. It's a different type of intensity than labor, which comes more in waves, where as this was RELENTLESS non-abating pain.

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I've had endometriosis, kidney stones, and have given birth. Birth hurt--but hey, you get a baby and it is a joyful event. Kidney stones hurt more than birth. Endometriosis took the cake

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I have had 3 kidney stones. The first (sophomore year of college) they insisted would pass... in and out of the hospital for a week with excruciating pain, given all the drugs, they finally removed when they realized it was stuck. The other 2 were bad, but not that bad.
My intestines rupturing post childbirth ties with the kidney stone pain. I still remember waking from surgery feeling like I was floating in the clouds and finally pain free.

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Anonymous wrote:Ruptured ovarian cyst with no medication for pain

+1 mine was torsion but didn't rupture. I threw up from the pain, it was horrific. Worse than childbirth for sure.