Anonymous wrote: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.

Wait, your intestines can rupture in childbirth? Omg

I had a spinal tap after a seizure and the dr said it was one of the worst pains...but no one has mentioned it. Was he lying? Never had a kidney stone or had a baby so I have nothing to compare to!

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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.

+1. And the worst thing is I ended up infertile because of all this, and all I heard was, "well, hey, at least you don't have to experience childbirth pain". I mean, this pain was excruiciating but it doesn't count unless it's a baby, I guess. Not to mention---stop rubbing the IF in my face! (DP)

Ugh, people are idiots. Sorry, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:The pain compares to a woman giving birth to a full term baby.

Not even close. Delivered 3 out of 4 of my children with no epidural, one was 9# 14oz, and I would do it all over again instead of passing a kidney stone

I haven't had a kidney stone but I believe this based on having birthed two kids. And don't get me wrong, it hurt like a bitch but at no point did I hope to die, which is what I've heard people who passed kidney stones say they were thinking as it happened.

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Anonymous wrote:I have had a manual reduction of a severely broken wrist and arm with no pain medication, during which I past out twice and my husband was forcibly and physically removed from the building.

That was worse than birthing two kids and a kidney stone.

I kind of want to hear this story, but also want to sleep without nightmares. Yikes!

You don’t want the story. The reduction didn’t work and I still had to have reconstructive surgery on it with titanium plates and 20 screws. I don’t know why they did the reduction, under zero sedative. If any person is every faced with this decision, insist on being knocked out beforehand. This procedure have me huge PTSD and anxiety for years. And I’m not a sensitive person or have a low threshold for pain. This was at INOVA Fairfax, which is a very good hospital.

I’ve had a kidney stone, and I’ve had two kids. The reduction was blinding, involuntary scream at the top of your lungs, natural instinct/reflex is to fight so there are 4 people holding you down and one doing the reduction, I kept passing out (and this was how I leaned there are smelling salts taped to the back of ER beds) pain. Just incredible.

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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.

+1. And the worst thing is I ended up infertile because of all this, and all I heard was, "well, hey, at least you don't have to experience childbirth pain". I mean, this pain was excruiciating but it doesn't count unless it's a baby, I guess. Not to mention---stop rubbing the IF in my face! (DP)