Your Worst Pain ,What Was It?

[Bobbisox1]

Mine was the estrangement with my son( now over, thank God )
Secondly was Shingles, that was physically really painful

[1ozzy]

Possibly reading all the pain and suffering other ABers have coped with.
Makes mine insignificant.

[rowanwitch]

Physical ..peritonitis
Mental.... I think the third late miscarriage when it suddenly hit me that I would never have kids. Followed by my mother telling me I can't be much of a woman if I couldn't do something so simple

[roopower]

Appendicitis in the short term, six years ago. Arthritic hip pain ongoing, it's awful!

[ToraToraTora]

Twist and shout was the worst physical pain I've endured.

[roopower]

I haven't suffered the raw emotional pain that some of you have and count myself very lucky.
Ladybirder, my mum had two near death experiences she was able to tell us about and in both her adored late parents were by her side. Whether they were with her or her mind was helping her, I don't know but if she had comfort, it doesn't matter. When she did pass, in a care home, at the ripe age of 93, the carers said her eyes were fixed towards one side and she was at peace. Were her parents there with her? I hope do so.

[Bobbisox1]

LB, my heart went out to you and others here, losing a child has to surpass and physical pain but then it must feel very physical like your heart has been ripped out , thanks all for your heartfelt answers here, it can’t have been easy

[Bobbisox1]

*any

[maggiebee]

When my 5 year old daughter died in 1972. So long ago but still raw.

[Khandro]

Kisa Gotami was the wife of a wealthy man of Savatthi. Her story is one of the most famous ones in Buddhism. After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone could help her. Her sorrow was so great that many thought she had lost her mind. An old man told her to see the Buddha. The Buddha told her that he could bring the child back to life if she could find white mustard seeds from a family where no one had died. She desperately went from house to house, but to her disappointment, she could not find a house that had not suffered the death of a family member. Finally the realization struck her that there is no house free from mortality. She returned to the Buddha, who comforted her and preached to her the truth. She was awakened and entered the first stage of enlightenment. Eventually, she became an Arahat.

[Patsy33]

Oh Maggie, so sorry..
Has to be worst pain to experience in life. ((x))

[jennyjoan]

A murdered son via troubles here led to a broken heart of a mother my sister in law
who died a year later leavin sons aged 5 7 13 4 years old. They have not got over it My being shot twice was nothing. My sister lost her only child via drowning. Let me say death. My life has never been the same ever

[jno]

gout was the only thing that's had me crying, so I now take allopurinol every day and it's never returned (andy hughes might like to take note).

Shingles was just an itchy eye.

[jno]

didn't know you'd been shot, jj. That sounds horrific.

[Patsy33]

Awful, JJ. So hard to bear. x

[Patsy33]

Glad you found relief from Gout, jno. I've heard others say the pain is terrible.