What's the worst pain you've ever experienced in your life?
Getting kicked in the balls really hard
Migraine
Broken bone
Piercing or tattoo
Getting stabbed
Waking up from a surgery
Passing kidney stones
Getting shot
Giving birth
Other (list in tags)
Ok. Real talk time. I'm going to share this story, and if you are someone who has a uterus, please read. I do not want anyone else to go through what happened to me without at least knowing what is happening with their body. The worst pain I ever experienced was a deucidual cast.
Dec 2020, I woke up in horrible pain. I was having the worst cramps I have ever had in my life, and I regularly experience very painful cramping when I'm on my period. Pretty much all I was capable of doing was crawling out of bed and onto the living room floor to try and put pressure on my uterus so it would stop.
Within about an hour, I texted a friend to ask if they could please come help me get to a hospital. About ten minutes after that, I called 911 for an ambulance because I could not wait the 20 minutes for my friend to come pick me up. My primary concern at the time was appendicitis. I had recently read somewhere that it was not uncommon for people to confuse intense period pain with their appendix bursting.
I got to the hospital and told them my symptoms. Incredible pain. Like 15 on a scale from 1 to 10. The ER nurse put me on morphine. IT DID NOTHING. I was in so much pain morphine did not even take the edge off. When the intake admin came in to do my paperwork, I was rolling on the bed in so much pain I could not even speak. The nurse upgraded me to hydromorphine-did not even know that was a thing, but that finally helped to get control over the pain.
They determined it was not appendicitis, and then sent in an ultrasound technician to take a look at my uterus. When I sat up after the exam, what I can only describe as an explosion of blood came gushing out of me. My underwear was soaked and dripping blood. The paper sheet on the bed was drenched. If you are squeamish, warning because it's about to get kinda bad.
I went to the bathroom to take a urine sample, and to try and assess the damage. When I pulled down my pants to sit on the toilet, a piece of flesh the size of a golf ball fell out of my body and onto the floor. To be very clear, there was 0 chance I could be pregnant for a multitude of reasons, so this was not a miscarriage. Stunned, horrified, and now sure I was dying, I scooped it up in the sample cup and took it back to the nurse.
My pain immediately went away after that. After a lot of hemming and hawing, the nurses and doctors decided that I was ok to go home, gave me some heavy duty painkillers, and sent me home. When I had a followup with my regular doctor the next day, she did a lot of thinking and eventually suggested that maybe, since I was using my birth control to skip periods, I had built up an unusually thick uterine lining, and suggested I stop skipping the placebo week, so I did. It was not until 2 years later, on TikTok of all places, that I finally found out what it actually was.
I came across a video of a nurse who described experiencing very similar symptoms to me, including having flesh come out of her. She noted having what felt like contractions, and intense pain for hours. When she went to the doctor's, no one had any idea what was wrong.
In fact, the comments on this video was FILLED with women who'd gone through the same thing, and had responses ranging to 'no idea, go home' to 'you're hysterical.' People described being terrified by the experience, and having to go home with no answers. For me, I went home and stopped skipping periods, the exact reason why I'd gone onto birth control in the first place, and then just lived with my very scary ER visit for a long time.
So finally the woman explained that she reached out to a gynecologist colleague who was able to tell her that she'd had a deucidual cast. The lining of her uterus had come off in one piece, instead of slowly shedding over several days (aka, a period, for those who don't know). A deucidual cast is excruciatingly painful, not that uncommon for anyone who has a period, and most doctors have never heard of it. Unless you are a specialist in a few fields, it doesn't really get taught in medical school.
I know this is a very long and rambling story, but I feel like it's really important to capture the details because it helps others to identify what the symptoms are, and assure others that they are going to be ok if it happens! This was a seriously scary and traumatizing experience, and I had to live with it in the back of my mind for two years. No one deserves that.
The good news is: a deucidual cast is not dangerous. It can be indicative of am ectopic pregnancy, but not always, and if you're not pregnant you don't have to br concerned. If it happens to you: it is going to be ok. You do not need to feel scared about the blood or anything else; it's the uterine lining, just like regular period blood. It is PAINFUL and that suuucks. But you will be ok once it's over.
Idk, I hope this helps someone. Tl,dr, look up a deucidual cast if you have a uterus and can have a period. They are VERY painful but not dangerous, and there's a good chance if have one a doctor will not know what's happening to you.








