Hmm.
Can't comment on childbirth. Other stuff from mild to bad..
Broken finger, wrist, etc. Take some aspirin.
Self stitches on shin (mild machete accident). There is a reason you pull the thread real slow. Go fast and you'd swear someone was cutting your leg off with a dull saw.
3 cracked ribs. Not bad as long as you don't breathe. Lasted for months. Did it at sea, so doctor wasn't even an option for the first 5 weeks. We had hydrocodone and morphine on board, didn't use any. Laughing hurt a lot. Pulling sails and such hurt even worse.
Cutting a golf-ball sized cyst out of my arm. (X-acto knife and a plastic orange peeler thing to dig around under the skin). Hurt a lot. Had to stop several times. Was over some sort of pain threshold by the time I finished cleaning it out, so sewing it back up didn't even register.
2nd degree burns on my whole forearm, with 3rd degree on finger tips and back of hand. Toughed it out for 2 days with no painkillers other than aspirin and ice. Not quite rational at times, impossible to sleep. Wussed out and went to get a Hydrocodone prescription. Which felt like it did nothing for the pain, but I could get stoned enough to sleep at least.
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