Ranked: The worst type of pain you could possibly feel, according to study - and it's not childbirth
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Ranked: The worst type of pain you could possibly feel, according to study - and it's not childbirth

Daily Mail  

A little known condition that affects about one in 100 Britons is responsible for the most intensive pain ever felt, according to an intriguing study. Called cluster headaches, it sees patients laid low by searing pain in their heads that can last for hours multiple times a day, and for which regular painkillers are useless. The analysis involved asking a group of 1,604 cluster headache patients to compare the pain they experience with over a dozen painful injuries and conditions they'd experienced — including stab wounds and heart attacks. 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. 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.

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The almond-sized implant that could improve the lives of 100,000 Brits
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The almond-sized implant that could improve the lives of 100,000 Brits

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'Invisible' device inserted via the gum into the cheek beneath eye socket An almond-sized nerve stimulator implanted under the eye is being used by NHS pain experts to ‘switch off’ cluster headaches that cause agony for sufferers. How the almond-sized implant 'switches off' cluster headaches which cause agony for more than 100,000 Britons Many patients liken the experience to having …

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