What pain comparable to childbirth?

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I've heard it stings a bit. Surely if something is that sore though you pass out?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Nut kicking

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Happily, I will never know. Just being honest. And crass.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

kidney stones

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom said it was "like shitting a pumpkin."

― don weiner, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

did she say that on your fifth birthday? cuz that would be sad and awesome at the same time.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps also, gallstones.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have heard so too suggs, however not having experienced either yet I couldn't say.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I do want to have a baby in the near future, but the prospect of a big new scary pain is one I do not relish. How do I go about contracting gall stones? I need to test my pain threshold...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Me stomping on yer head. So just watch it.

― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Having actually done it - I'd say there's nothing really comparable - there are things that hurt more, and things that hurt less. It's just... intense, localized pain. The only way I can think of to describe labor pain is sort of disgusting, so yeah, y'all will have to im me if you really want to know.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna, Queen of Tact

(actually, just yesterday, I dubbed someone at work "Tact", but in an ironic way, like how you call really tall dudes "Shorty"

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Childbirth? Painful?

That's NOTHING. We have to shave EVERY DAY.

You got that? EVERY SINGLE DAY!

― Patrick Kinghorn, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Eeuch... disgusting pain... I'm imagining squelchy, ripping, shloppy noises. But then you see their little face and you forget all about it..... No?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

disgusting? Not on ILM, horrors!

Come one Luna, you can't build up like that with now follow through.

Huck, you call cute girls 'shorty'.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Patrick I have to shave some areas everyday. I also bleed every month for about a week. very inconvient.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it true that many women 'soil' themselves while birthing? Oh the shame.....

"Congratulations Mrs Pumpkin, you have a healthy turd"

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Luna, tell all.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I've survived giving birth twice so far, though it's a bit like being beaten repeatedly for several hours with a baseball bat. The first time I had an epidural which took the pain away but made walking or going for a wee difficult for several hours afterwards (so not a good idea, really). Second time I discovered the joys of gas and air inhalation - I couldn't stop giggling, and it was great.

After my first daughter was born, I do remember very vividly that the first thought that came into my head was "My God, I'm still alive!" but I was amazed by how quickly I forgot about the pain afterwards. It was no picnic, but it certainly wasn't enough to put me off having another one two years later (and I have a pathetically low pain threshold).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

looks like this guy doesn't have it so bad! (not AT ALL safe for work)

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I had kidney stones once, years ago. The doctors told me it's the worst pain there is, matched only by the worst childbirth. Obviously I have not had any children, but I can say that if the doctors had given me the option of putting up with that torture for another hour, then it would all be fine, or killing me immediately I would not have hesitated to choose death. I was thrashing around and screaming and shouting. They gave me enough drugs to knock me out, and when I awoke a few hours later it was all gone. They kept me in hospital for three or four more days anyway, but I was fine. I suspect the effects of bad childbirth last rather longer. I cannot conceive of anyone experiencing pain that bad voluntarily getting pregnant again.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You forget... not immediately, but you do. I remember that there was enormous pain, and that I screamed the labor ward down, but I can't remember the feeling physically.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I think (from what I've heard) that childbirth is like Texan summers. There's a certain amnesia you get that's a form of self-defense which allows you to endure it again.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it true that many women 'soil' themselves while birthing? Oh the shame...

True. You're supposed to be focusing all your energy, every proverbial fiber of your being, on PUSHING something out of your pelvis as hard as you can--what do you think is going to happen? But in my amateur opinion, that's really the least of your worries at the time.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Some do, some don't - I didn't.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

well yr not really allowed to eat are you? just popsicles and ice chips and the like. so this truly shouldn't be too much of a concern.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

true, but what's already in there sometimes...

Ice chips made me hork. (Cause of the epidural - which, going in, hurt way more than any tattoo I have ever had)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

popsicles???
I wanna go into labor!

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Or you could just buy popsicles.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

not having a uterus sucks!

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

You can have mine!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/jpgs/pfj.jpg

Horace, me, Dan, Luna

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

SPLITTER!

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

my cousin has had both kidney stones and a child. she says the stone was worse.

me I've only had kidney stones, once. keep yourselves hydrated, everyone.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

About once a month, a woman and her uterus are mortal enemies. Beware their wrath.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed with halitosis"
"at the BP station!"

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, that was SOOO meant to go on the punchlines thread. i looked at jeanne's post and was wondering what the hell the rest of that joke was.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Comparing it to an Ironman lenght triathlon, my wife said childbirth's way worse. But she also said that if childbirth only lasted a couple of hours it wouldn't be that bad. (!)

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

About once a month, a woman and her uterus are mortal enemies. Beware their wrath.

Pain to pull your hair out....or enough to chomp the nearest victim.

Childbirth is like pushing a tanker through the tinest tunnel, so I've been warned.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I now fear kidney stones with great uh... fear. I take a lot of paracetamol, so its possible. But I drink metric buttloads of water every day too so I should be ok...

*starts panicking*

(I hate pain with a passion)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

and you call yourself a goth? (yes i know you don't)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Watch it, you ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Kick him!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

then spank him!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Got to give him mad props for not using another name there...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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