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...Childbirth being the second most agonising pain for a human...only second to Cluster headaches.....and 9 times more painful than a heart attack...
For the analysis, participants were asked to rate the intensity of pain they felt when suffering the problem on a scale of 0 to 10.
Surprisingly, childbirth came in at only 7.2.
Patients unlucky enough to be shot with a gun gave the experience an average of 6 on the pain scale.
Surgeons have previously reported pain from gunshot wounds varies significantly depending on the location of the shot, with the stomach, back, groin and neck considered to be particularly agonising due to the concentration of nerves.
Slipping a disc, also called a disc herniation, where soft tissue between the bones of the spine bulges out and presses on nerves, was just a fraction less painful than getting shot coming in at 5.9.
Migraines ranked eight, with a score of 5.4, followed by fibromyalgia — a condition believed to be linked to misfires in the nervous system.
Heart attacks only came in at a 5, just below breaking a bone, and the same as sciatica, a condition where a nerve that runs from your lower feet to your back becomes painfully compressed.
This meant both conditions narrowly beat getting stabbed which only came in a 4.9 — though much like gunshot wounds the pain of such injuries can vary significantly on location.
Cluster headaches are a rare and poorly understood condition that affect an estimated 65,000 people in Britain.
The headaches cause a severe, sharp, burning or piercing pain, usually on one side of the head, around the eye.
The worst type of pain you can feel, according to science
For the analysis, participants were asked to rate the intensity of pain they felt when suffering the problem on a scale of 0 to 10.
Surprisingly, childbirth came in at only 7.2.
Patients unlucky enough to be shot with a gun gave the experience an average of 6 on the pain scale.
Surgeons have previously reported pain from gunshot wounds varies significantly depending on the location of the shot, with the stomach, back, groin and neck considered to be particularly agonising due to the concentration of nerves.
Slipping a disc, also called a disc herniation, where soft tissue between the bones of the spine bulges out and presses on nerves, was just a fraction less painful than getting shot coming in at 5.9.
Migraines ranked eight, with a score of 5.4, followed by fibromyalgia — a condition believed to be linked to misfires in the nervous system.
Heart attacks only came in at a 5, just below breaking a bone, and the same as sciatica, a condition where a nerve that runs from your lower feet to your back becomes painfully compressed.
This meant both conditions narrowly beat getting stabbed which only came in a 4.9 — though much like gunshot wounds the pain of such injuries can vary significantly on location.
Cluster headaches are a rare and poorly understood condition that affect an estimated 65,000 people in Britain.
The headaches cause a severe, sharp, burning or piercing pain, usually on one side of the head, around the eye.
The worst type of pain you can feel, according to science
