I agree -- even in my drug days (or is that daze), I never abused narcotics; for one thing, I hated the nausea, and also, I wanted to be able to take them for their actual purpose when I really needed them, and have them still work. So now, though I'm a recovering addict/alcoholic, if I really need opioids, I take them without any issues -- though I still hate the nausea. When I was in the ER with appendicitis, and the nurse was about to push morphine in my IV, I made her give me just half at first, to make sure it didn't make me nauseous; it didn't thank god, some anti-nausea thing in with it, so I got the other half and got real relief from that agony. Still didn't totally remove the pain, but at least I could move without every muscle in my entire torso locking tight from the pain. I don't recall labor very well, thanx to the body's natural forgetfulness of that condition, but I'm pretty sure that appendicitis was worse than labor -- with labor, you got agony for like 1 minute or two, then a rest for a minute or two, so you could catch your breath. The only pain I've suffered that may be on a par with appendicitis is an abscessed tooth -- but even a "hot" abscess doesn't make your whole torso lock up like that.
Andria
I have 4 areas of my abdomen sticking out from a botched hernia repair, knee's giving out from thirty years of climbing on helicopters like a monkey and severe neck arthritis. Now a bum arm. 
