Ok, I agree it hurts but not a hurt that you cannot stand it.. My hind waters broke on Tuesday, I was having mild contractions rest of Tuesday & Wednesday, so we went into hospital they gave me Panadeine Forte & sent me home, I ate dinner & went to try to sleep, I recall rolling over in bed & hear a very loud pop, I felt wet & ran to sit over the bath as i could not stop the water running out of me! Hard tyo explain it was so weird that you just cannot use your muscles to stop it...
But no contractions, so I sat on some towels & watched TV until I really started to panic at about 3am, on Thursday morning. I was about 3cm dialated vomiting & contractions were stopping on & off... Noone told me using ventolin can slow down contractions etc, so being asthmatic I was panicking & using my ventolin, I started vomiting blood from breathing thru my throa, they tested the water that was leaking from me & the baby had poo'd so they decided to put me on a drip, but as I had been vawake all Tuesday night & now Wednesday night they had to give me electrolytes first, so 2 drip bags of them & then the syntocin, which started ok, but within an hour the contractions were coming on so hard, I was walking around & mooing like a cow.. I asked & got pethidine, it took the pain away & let me rest in between contractions!
But I knew I could do it, when I listened to this woman screaming like a banshee in the next room, yelling "I can't, I can't I don't wanna do this anymore!" & screaming very loud, then I heard the nurses say, "Great love, only one more push, I looked at my Mum with sheer terror in my eyes & she said "just listen!" about 2 mins later I hear the lady screaming & then "Waaah, waaaah!" Instantly that ladies voice went from pain to undying love, I could hear her saying "Oh, isn't she gorgeous, isn't she beautiful!" I knew then, that it could not be too bad!
I went in shower, hot bath etc & before long felt the urge to push which I must say was liking finally finding that itchy spot...
Back on the bed & I was having more stronger contractions, I was now 9cm dialated & allowed to push, the nurse told my sister to run hot water onto a maternity pad when the head started crowning, as the heat from the water against the stretched area made it numb, so I did not feel pain there then, within a few pushes her head was out & soon after she flopped out like a fish, it was like heaven & I am looking forward to it all over again!
I never thought it would be so amazing! As the nurse was stitching me (I did not feel a tear or anything) she asked if I'd do it again, I said yep, tomorrow, so i guess it was not as bad as what i'd pictured in my head!

Best of luck, you'll be fine, your body just takes over & you do kind of drift off to somewhere else whailst your body does what it needs to do!