The phrase "actually painful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the reality or intensity of pain experienced in a situation, often in contrast to what might be expected.
Example: "I thought the workout would be easy, but it was actually painful and left me sore for days."
Alternatives: "truly painful" or "genuinely painful".
It is actually painful to be this fine.
But I hear some sounds perfectly well — maybe even better than you do — and when those are amplified for me, it's actually painful.
Almost any stimulus will produce pain if it is intense enough: sound, light, heat, or cold are good examples (it is not clear if intense tastes and odors are actually painful, no matter how unpleasant they might be).
by Sharon Levy I wish I were as big as a basketball hoop.It is actually painful to be this fine.It is like squinting for no reason,all night, choosing the pain of squintingover going to sleep.
It is hard, actually painful, to hear once again how Speaker John A. Boehner refused to accept President Obama's overly generous, politically risky offer to make major cuts in both Medicare and Social Security over a difference of $400 billion in additional tax revenue over 10 years.
The idea that such a picture might be damaged, or might even be gone – the mere idea that this picture, which I'd only known about the existence of for a couple of minutes and knew practically nothing about, might not be in the world any more – was actually painful.
The team wanted to create a new platform that allows deaf people to participate in group conversations where they previously lagged behind".Not understanding what people are saying around you is actually really painful," Duchemin explains.
It was the first time I've had it where I actually had a really painful abdominal cramp that went with it, almost felt like my bladder was being torn outside my body.
DO NOT get your nose pierced with a gun,it could shatter your cartilage which is actually more painful then the actual piercing it self.
"It was actually quite painful.
A year ago, comparisons to the Kaiser Chiefs were doubtless annoying for Duels; now, they might actually be painful.
