# What is the worst pain you have ever felt? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348 "2000-05-12T17:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348/81 "2000-05-16T20:29:22Z")
For quick pain I’d have to say acid on my clit ranks right up there. (VD issues, don’t ask) For longer duration…I’d say it’s a tossup between bursting ovarian cyst, which someone else described, and earache. Oh wait…anal fissures are pretty nasty as well. Ahhh… life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348/82 "2000-05-16T20:31:21Z")
For quick pain I’d have to say acid on my clit ranks right up there. (VD issues, don’t ask) For longer duration…I’d say it’s a tossup between bursting ovarian cyst, which someone else described, and earache. Oh wait…anal fissures are pretty nasty as well. Ahhh… life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348/83 "2000-05-16T20:31:21Z")
For quick pain I’d have to say acid on my clit ranks right up there. (VD issues, don’t ask) For longer duration…I’d say it’s a tossup between bursting ovarian cyst, which someone else described, and earache. Oh wait…anal fissures are pretty nasty as well. Ahhh… life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348/84 "2000-05-16T20:50:59Z")
**For all you kidney stone sufferers out there** - my mother had a kidney stone about a centimeter in diameter. First the doctor tried t crush it, but it was too big and too solid. So then he decided to manually push it through the ureter. LOTS of pain. later, after a week my mother (a tough old broad who’s had broken limbs set without anesthesia because of drug allergies) is complaining that there’s too much pain. The doctor pooh-poohs her complaint, so she goes for a second opinion. It turns out her pushed the stone right through the wall of her kidney (leaving a hole the size of your pinky in it). Whoops! Let’s see…what else has she had? Cervical cancer (while carrying me - the reason I’m the last of only five kids), a car accident that smashed both legs and severed one foot, a mastectomy, an aorta replacement, gangrene, multiple drug and chemical allergies and the loss of her husband of almost 50 years. BTW - my sisters have given birth to 8 children, collectively. All without any kind of drugs. They said it was no big deal. One left the hospital 6 hours after delivery, saying they wasn’t anything they could do for her that she couldn’t do for herself. StG StG ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348/85 "2000-05-16T21:09:41Z")
Sorry about the reposts, guys. I haven’t been around much lately and I wasn’t sure the new system was working properly. Took forEVER for it to post! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-pain-you-have-ever-felt/19348.md?page=4)