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Originally Posted by SydneyK
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I can't hold my tongue here. I've also experienced years of excruciating knee pain and several dislocations. I've had knee surgery (among other types of surgery). Childbirth was not a walk in the park. Granted, I didn't have an epidural, which would probably have put a damper on the pain. I'm convinced that childbirth is the most painful experience a human can go through.
Not trying to diminish your knee pain, but unless you've gone through childbirth, don't say it will be a walk in the park (unless you plan to get an epidural, which I would definitely recommend!).
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I've never not planned to get an epidural :P Actually, technically what happened to my knee was that the patella had a severe lateral tilt which caused all my medial hamstring tendons to go into spasm. No doctor could figure out what was wrong. I couldn't sit, couldn't stand, couldn't walk, couldn't run etc. etc. Because of my age, my doctors thought that I couldn't possibly be in that much pain and refused to prescribe me painkillers.
I would honestly say, at this point, that my pain from my leg was easily comparable to childbirth. It really did hurt that badly. Think about the pain from childbirth, then relocate it to just above and behind your knee. Then think about how no one believes that you are in pain, especially that amount of pain, because it's not easily fixable.
I'm not diminishing childbirth, but I am not exaggerating about my knee either.