This is the worst pain a human can endure (no, it's not childbirth)

A recent study revealed the worst pain a human can endure. And it's not related to childbirth.

Specific to each person, the pain is sometimes insurmountable. So much so that some patients, suffering from an illness that is sometimes incurable, have very difficult times. In women, childbirth pain is often described as the worst pain ever experienced. But now there would be an even more painful suffering. To arrive at this observation, researchers from McGill University in Canada carried out a study, the results of which were revealed in the journal Pain. They then decided to interview no fewer than 100 participants and attempted to establish a pain scale.

The pain of childbirth is rated 35/50

On this scale, several indices are written ranging from 0 to 50. The lowest number means that no pain is felt. Index 50 corresponds to pain that no human could bear. Among the worst pains, that felt during childbirth is accredited with an index of 35. But then which pains are more difficult to bear? In this study, it was revealed that the amputation of the finger corresponds to the index 40 and that the sting of an insect called the ant Paraponera clavata or “gun bullet”, presents pain rated at 42/50. But there is indeed an evil that is even more painful.

Indeed, on the first place of this sad list is complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). It then causes “chronic neuropathic pain following soft tissue damage or bone damage (type I) or nerve damage (type II) and which persists in intensity and duration in proportions disproportionate to the tissue damage of departure”, indicates the MSD site. The pain associated with this disease is so difficult to bear that patients also suffer from depression. Rated 47/50, the pain caused by complex regional pain syndrome, is the most acute form identified by researchers. To fully understand what this disease can feel like, scientists describe the sensations as burning and electric shocks.

This disease is the one that causes humans to suffer the most

This syndrome can then lie dormant for several years and one day reveal itself. Unfortunately, to date, no treatment has been found to cure it. Only medications to reduce pain can be prescribed. No less than 50,000 people in France are affected by this syndrome which therefore causes the worst pain that humans can endure.