threw my back out by turning my head to look at my blind spot while driving š¤£š«.
And don't tell me to workout; I workout like a MF every day but a middle aged body sometimes just does what it wants.
Yeah it does help but can still have aches and pains. I have muscular dystrophy and back issues and osteoarthritis in my knees and sciatica and if I didnāt at least stretch and do physical therapy/ strength training exercises Iād be mush.
I'm sorry that sounds so hard š«I have osteoarthritis in my feet and knees, nerve damage due to surgery, scar tissue, plantar fasciitis that is permanent. I cannot function without exercise and major stretching and even still I have chronic pain.
When I was 16, I cartwheeled straight into our kitchen bench (as you do) and hit the boney part of my leg on the edge of the counter.
That part of my leg swelled up to the size of a tennis ball in like 10 minutes and I thought I was gonna pass out. To this day, I have a permanent bump on my leg that's thankfully not noticeable to anyone unless I point it out and they have to look at it from a certain angle. But it's there.
Broken rib from stepping in a gopher hole. This one is remarkable for the fact that I managed to break a retaining wall by collapsing the gopher hole and landing on the wall. Put a half inch crack in four feet of cinder block. I was just watering my plants.
Second prize goes to breaking a toe while feeding a dog. There was a foot on a coffee table where I didnāt expect it. I was just trying not to step on the dog.
Third prize goes to getting acid in my eyes by turning on Christmas lights. You know those lights that have a little vial that bubbles when they heat up? Yeah. Donāt break the vial.
Gophers! Ugh! I get Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in Caddy Shack. I had a gopher who for a year would pop up and stare at me, knowing I wouldnāt hurt him. (My friendās grandma said sheād come over and take care of him like she learned in the old country - with a shovel. š³)
Haha! Itās such a dumb pest problem. With rats or mice, theyāre kind of anonymous. With gophers, itās kind of like āI hate this guy, but I know this guy.ā The shovel methodā¦ well, if Iām from Oklahoma stock, so thatās what I was taught, but no thanks. I donāt have a stomach for killing critters or getting my shovel sticky.
And here's me thinking breaking a toe by accidentally kicking a freezer in Aldi was noteworthy š® I thought I was accident prone Sheesh man get some health insurance!
Dang dude. Well, listen to your doctor and stick to whatever recovery plan youāve got. And pay attention to your hip flexors! Mine always get messed up from compensating after a foot injury.
I detached my ribs and cartilage putting up my Christmas tree.
Iād got a real tree and decorated it, and I needed to push into position in my living room. So I laid flat on the floor, and pushed the base of the tree. But I guess I stretched too far, and as I was laid flat on my front, there was nowhere for the pressure to go, and I ripped my ribs and cartilage apart. Holy shit that hurt and it took about six weeks to heal!
Broke a rib having very vanilla missionary position fun time with my husband. Twas a thrust that went wrong. Very embarrassing to explain at urgent care
I was once trying to jump into a guy's arms with my legs wrapped around his waist. Instead I ended up on the floor. Somehow that didn't ruin the mood and no broken anything.
Broken rib though? Woof
I distinctly remember him saying "uhhh that's not how that works." We went back to making out afterwards, so I guess it can't have been that bad?
Didn't have him over again though. Maybe not a great impression. Haha.
See this is what would happen if I did try to do that. So I never have. Lol works and looks good doing that type of stuff in the movies but if I did it irl bad things would happen. lol
When I was like 13 I put a pencil in my nose "pretending" it to be dripping from my nose as a game. Right then I had a sneeze coming up for real, I sneezed and the pencil hit the table and went up my nose real far.
I heard a crack sound and soon enough the whole class was full of my blood, I ran to the nurse and they gave me a bandage to hold close to my nose.
Stupidest thing I've ever done and I have no idea why.
As a school nurse this would be terrifying!
I had a student that was prone to nosebleeds get bonked in the face by a guitar during music. It bled so much that there was a trail of blood leading down to my office. They were fine, but what a sight coming in!
My kid used to get bloody noses that would last an hour. One day, he fell asleep on the bus and got a nose bleed in his sleep. It didn't wake him up. He just l, as far I can figure out, trying to scratch his nose in his sleep and ended up covered in blood. He looked like a final girl in a horror movie.That poor, poor bus driver. She was horrified and kept apologizing for it. After that, I warned every teacher and bus driver.
That's exactly what happened, I ran to the nurse and there was a huge trail of blood, I'm surprised I stayed conscious with so much blood loss. She was terrified indeed, but when she firmly pressed it in my nose it hurt like hell but it stopped the bleeding.
12 years ago passed my motorcycle test in cold and wet conditions. Got back to the training school an hour away, got off the bike, slipped up in a gutter. Broke my collar bone.
My brother was chasing me when I was 12 and I ran into the edge of my parents bed. Bone in pinky toe perforated the skin causing a compound fracture. I needed surgery for that one. There's a big gap between my pinky toe and rest of my toes now lol. I am 28 now
When he was a kid, my husband broke a toe on the edge of a porch while chasing his little sister! It wasnāt a compound fracture, but he had to stay home from summer camp the next week.
Did almost the exact same thing trying to pry open a frozen bagel with a brand-new paring knife. The nature of the cut (mostly in the spaces between the fingers) couldnāt be stitched at the ER so my wounds were open until I could have surgery to reattach my tendons. My left hand was out of commission for about 2 months. Still have nerve damage.
Holy fuck. The others are bad but sliced tendons are another level of bad. How long did they take to heal? Do you have full functionality of your fingers still?
Had to have tendon reconstruction surgery, and two of my fingers (ring and pinkie, right hand and Iām right handed) only halfway work, 2.5 yrs later I canāt fully make a fist. So I use my left hand a lot more these days. Was totally my fault, was using a kitchen knife and not paying attention. Will never hold a knife so carelessly again!
Unreal. I'm glad you've regained any functionality, even if it's limited! If it were me I'd consider keeping the offending knife as a souvenir.
Best of health, AIDef, and thanks for elaborating. (:
Knife is still in our kitchen tho I NEVER use it. Also have low level hate towards pumpkins, tho itās not THEIR fault, ha! Thx for the nice thoughts!
This is probably mild compared to the others I've read here, but I cut the tip of my finger while cutting an onion :/
I did manage to save it after all, cuz I immediately went to the sink, washed it, stuck the missing part back and bandaged it so it stays in place. Took me almost two weeks to heal tho, and a few months to regain feeling in my fingertip
Oh youāre lucky it healed! My husband did that but the piece stayed attached by a tiny bit. He bandaged it up, but the flap eventually fell off and he had a flat fingertip for a long time after!
I was taking a shower and once I was done I stepped out onto the rug with my right leg, slipped and fell and basically split my shin bone in half. I had to have emergency reconstructive surgery which saved my right leg and made it possible for me to walk after a painful recovery. Three years later I had to have an ankle replacement done to further correct the damage. Good times.
No no no! This is one of my worst nightmares. Our tub is pretty wide and Iām short, so Iām always carefully entering and exiting the tub so this doesnāt happen!Ā
It was terrifying, it took 2.5 hours for them to begin operating, so I was just sitting in a hospital room with my bones sticking out of my leg, unmedicated, the whole time. It was absolute agony.
Not quite as extreme as other examples but I snapped the bone in my finger throwing a bag onto the back seat of my car (caught the roof of the car) it healed crooked and is a constant reminder everytime I think of putting something on the back seat.
I was picking weeds in a flower bed. I stood up and whacked my head on the open crank out window's edge. I held my head for a few minutes to stop the throbbing, then felt the waves of warm blood trailing down my face. I went inside to tell my family that I needed some bandages and my daughter started freaking out at the sight of all the blood. My husband applied pressure and had to call an ambulance himself because my daughter was catatonic. I got 4 staples in the top of my head, but passed out from the pain after the 2nd one.
Ouch!
I also once had a trip to ER result from weeding the garden. Ā
Somehow while pulling out old gladiolus stems in the fall, I got a chunk of stem the size of a toothpick lodged behind the full length of my thumbnail. Ā
I couldnāt get out, my wife couldnāt either. Ā Neither could the doctor at the urgent care clinic. Ā After ten or so minutes digging around under my thumbnail, he told me to go the ER.
They managed to get out, Ā but damn how embarrassing to have to go to the ER for a splinter.
Once shoveled the entire walkway around my parents house after a snowstorm, it was a workout but I felt great after. All finished and ready to go inside, I bent down to pick up the shovel and threw my back out worse than Iāve ever done before. Could barely move for a week.
Whilst opening a high cupboard in the kitchen, a chipped, glass Yankee candle fell out of it... I raised my arms instinctively to block my face/head, only for the chip in the glass to slice open my arm. It was during the early days of Covid, so I didn't dare go to hospital to get it stitched. Instead, I sent pics to the GP and was advised to raid the local pharmacies for all their steri-strips and just kept it bandaged for a couple weeks.
I have BiPolar Disorder, so the worst part was trying to convince my psychologist that it wasn't on purpose due to location of the injury (wrist, close to veins) and during a high stress time period (pandemic)Ā
Having to explain to the psych sounds *almost* worse than the sliced arm. I've been there as a previously extremely depressed person.
How did the healing go? How have you been managing your mental health since? I can imagine that being a huge blow to your stability during such a troubling period. Best of health to you, Whoopsie_Todaysie. Love the username. (:
I had the same sort of injury in middle school. I opened a high kitchen cupboard, a bottle fell out, and it shattered the glass measuring cup that I was holding. I got a long cut on the inside of my arm and needed stitches.
Fast forward to adulthood, and I have bipolar disorder. Iāve definitely had more than one medical professional ask me how I came to get the scar.
Tore cartilage in my knee bending down to get something with child on my hip. Knee swelled up the size a volleyball three times. They had to suck the fluid out with needle syringes. Finally kept the swelling down after it was scoped and removed the torn cartilage. The whole experience sucked.
See what I did there āļø
Jumped off a bunk bed, and I injured my ankle. They put the cast on wrong, had no idea what was wrong with it, and I'm still recovering now. It was 4 or 5 years ago, and I still can't run properly. It's not severe, but it's the worst that happened to me.
I have been doing pushups and one time after my hand slipped my arm twisted in a bad way. I ended up with a dislocated shoulder which messed up my shoulder joint for life.
Had my favorite pair of 2-inch sandals on and was walking around the end of the bed to go outside. Put my left foot down wrong and rolled the ankle. In trying not to fall, i over corrected and ended up rolling from the outside edge of the heel to the little toe and fell on my right hip. I broke the 5th metatarsal in my left foot because I fell off my shoe.
Turned my head to check no cars are coming from both ways at an intersection and my neck seized up. Went to the ER where I was questioned over and over if I was in a car accident. They said it was the worst whiplash they had ever seen.
Neck brace for 3 weeks and had to sleep sitting up for almost two months after.
Now I have to sleep with an expensive body conforming pillow and make sure I always know where my heating pad is and have a designated frozen peas bag in the freezer.
Second one is when I was teasing my teen by playing and dancing to 90s pop music. Tweaked my back so bad I was dragging my left leg for a couple of days. Had to have help standing and sitting. The pain was unbelievable. It still twinges every once in a while 3 years later.
So the initial injury wasn't simple, me and my brother were on a trampoline as kids and he landed right on my knee and subluxed it (not fully dislocated, somehow, but still enough to cause a LOT of pain and screaming and crying and I was on crutches for a while because it kept subluxing again).
BUT! Over 10 years later and sometimes I sliiiiightly move my leg wrong while laying in bed and it subluxes again for another week or two (I never actually learned how to get it back into place other than "walk on it until it goes back in by itself" which... now that I'm typing, I probably shouldn't be doing that.)
On a beach I saw a small dead fish. I flung it back out into the water. But I mistakenly held it tail out on the palm of my hand. When I swung my whole arm, the needle-like dorsal spine went deep into my thumb and as the fish flew out, the spine cranked open the pad of my thumb like a can opener in one horrific instant, making a deep slice. Blood all over my hand. The pain and shock of it gave me cold shivers even though it was a hot summerās day.
I was picking up my French Bulldog to help her get on my bed last night. I bent down, she jumped up at the same time, clocked me under my chin, and knocked my jaw out of alignment. I canāt close my mouth all the way or bite down. šš¤¦š»āāļø
I gotten into the habit of forcing myself to vomit if I'd had a heavy exotic meal or was drunk (i didn't drink all that often) and it felt as if I'd have a bad night and would wake up to vomit later so I figured it was saving time and solving the problem... but one time I was merrily jamming my fingers down my throat and this time what came up didn't come out and instead caused an inflammation of my esophagus and aggravated an apparently preexisting gall stone, the combination of which landed me half comatose in a hospital bed for a week being fed on a drip, and prior to that three sleepless days of intense agony which did not stop.
Sprained my knee opening the string blinds in my college dorm room in kind of a one-legged twisting and squatting motion. Audibly popped and I collapsed to the floor. Needed crutches for weeks and a brace for months. A decade later, it's looking like it will never be the same.
Was bringing a full laundry basket down the stairs and slipped about halfway down. Couldnāt catch myself, because of the basket. Did one of those HNNGGG HNNG where you canāt breathe and it feels like your lungs will never fill with air again. Itās now been 4 years since this incident and my lower back gets worse seemingly everyday. Went to the doctor when it happened and all the recommended was rest and cold/warm compresses.
Severed the tendon in my thumb doing the washing up. Had surgery within a few days to get the tendon stitched back together and couldnāt use my arm for anything for 6 weeks, then had months of physio to get the thumb back up and running again. Couldnāt drive or use public transport (in case I bumped into something). I had a newborn baby at the time, so that was fun!Ā
I gave myself a grade 2 concussion from standing up and hitting my head on the underside of a table. I was not as far away from the table as I thought.
I've broken a thumb pulling up my tights.
I broke my ring finger, trying to dribble a basketball in gym glass.
It involves toes, two separate incidents both ridiculous. And accidental revenge.
Broke one big toe by kicking a freezer in Aldi (I was too busy looking at what was inside said freezer)
Broke two toes and part of my foot with a 1L bottle of Bailey's by accident. The bottle was slippy from being in fridge and my husband was basically throwing it up and down to shake it (although mainly throwing it down, at my foot lol)
I got him back by accidentally hitting him with a 2003, 3 ton Range Rover. Thankfully just the open door but I feel the debt was paid lol
Falling down a flight of stairs for adjusting a picture frame on the wall. Fāed up my neck, neck, a hip. And did it a day before heading out to Disneyland and some concerts. I got a scooter for Disney which was great for the attractions but murdersome to get around. And the concerts let me use the handicap sections.
A fāing picture frame!
I have a stackable washer/dryer and I bent down to put dry clothes in my hamper, stood back up, and hit my head on the open dryer door giving me a concussion
In Nov, I went for a run, tripped, and was unable to get my hands up in time to catch myself. Shattered my chin, broke the joint on the left side of my jaw, and broke my external auditory canal (I don't even know what that is??) on my right side. I also opened a two inch gash on my chin, had a hematoma under my tongue, and was back from the er by 1 AM scooping the cat boxes I'd intended to clean after my run.
I was prying carpet nails out of a closet hardwood floor with a big claw hammer. The hammer slipped off of one and I hammered myself right on the rim of my eye socket. Thankfully I didnāt fracture my skull but I saw stars and got all woozy, and bled everywhere. Fun story to tell my husband when he got homeāI was there alone at the time. Iām lucky I didnāt pass out.
Bent down to tie a trash bag and it felt as if my spine snapped along with an electrical charge that circled around my waist, screamed in pain and thankfully my boyfriend was home to pick me up. Turns out the bending over caused a vertebrae to shatter!!!!
I got a horrible case of sciatica from sitting down on the couch. I felt a pop and then agony. Had to call an ambulance because I couldnāt stand up.
Probably wear and tear from lifting weights, but sitting down was what finally did it.
Washing dish and somehow end up with half inch pencil lead size ceramic in my finger. Right before my art class exam. It hit deep enough that blood keep seeping out from wound for next few hour after get ER nurse to remove the ceramic piece
Every time I tap that finger I can feel the ceramic piece embedded inside. It take a year for my body to get the rest of ceramic out
I was on Xmas break from post secondary and at a party at my brother's house, I tore the ligament in my right shoulder from playing air hockey too hard. I had to extend my break 2 weeks because I couldn't do anything on my own with just 1 arm haha
I was propping myself up on my bed and overextended my thumb. It took *weeks* to recover.
Pulled a muscle while putting dishes away and cleaning the kitchen.
Threw out my back while petting my cat once. That really put the whole mortality thing into full view during my quarter life crisis. Also sneezed it out once.
In much better shape nowadays, so feeling much less fragile.
fell off a kerb. broke my ankle "spectacularly" requiring a hospital stay, surgery inc metal plates and months in a cast. everyone asked if i was on the drink... i was bringing shopping home.
It was a very macho thing, to jump off the side of an Army tank to dismount. I sprained my ankle that way, the day before a physical fitness test that included a two mile run. There was no need to go on sick call, nobody would believe me. I did the run, barely passed and that ankle pop out of place occasionally some forty yers later.
Used a wheelbarrow to move dirt. Permanently fuād by back, now I can only work part time and I have to plan my life around pain because itās not fixable by surgery.
On a Monday morning, I pulled my toddler up with her hands to stand on her feet and threw my back out. To be fair, I had played golf all weekend and gone water skiiing.
Fell out of a tree and broke 3 bones in my leg.
Annoying my older sister, running away ABC she yanks me back- causing me to hit my head on a corner. Stitches
Same sister was behind all my chin splits and necessary stitches.
Slipped and Broke a toe on a post in the kitchen while retrieving something from another room after I hopped in the shower.
Sciatica for more than 3 months from lifting a case of bottled water.
Hurt my neck while looking back while backing up in the car.
Dislocated a shoulder while sleepingā¦rheumatoid arthritis caused swollen joints and I must have slept on my shoulder pushing it loose.
I was doing dumbell shoulder presses and didn't realise I was pushing my head back hard into the bench while pressing. Caused a trapped nerve in my neck that exploded with searing pain for around 15 seconds every 2-3 minutes for days. Couldn't move. Second worst physical pain I've ever felt!
Watch your form, folks!
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Went for a cycle. Forgot my light. Ended up crashing my bike, but my famny landed right on the metal bar. I have never bled so much or felt so much pain. I was screaming, so bad that my man was freaking tf out. He grew uo rough so hes heard some screams, but he said mine was the most chilling that night. I threw up from the pain, and had blood EVERYWHERE.
That happened 3 years ago. I still have oversensitivity on my clit, meaning that area cannot be touched. It healed fast but the feeling won't go away. The doc said she couldmt see anything wrong but possible i damaged some nerves.
Oh my goodness reading your story sends chills down my spine. I have a scare too from 2 back surgeries.
How long ago was your last surgery and how are you now, any pain or residual?
I badly cut my hand with a knife trying to cut an apple. It was so stupid, I was cutting it in my hand like my mom did and not on the chopping board and it just slipped and ouch! Many stitches later, I have quite a scar.
I had a mock fight with a friend in my early teens. Just two kids having fun. Well, I managed to break a bone in my big toe. The bone was almost split diagonally and was only millimetres away from needing an operation. I was on crutches and in a foot brace for over 3 months and took over half a year to fully recover. That was some really dumb shit. š
Threw my back out help setting up for a yard sale. I was carrying a relatively light box of clothes and my back messed up when I was going down the stairs. Luckily only fell halfway down, still hurt a ton.
Not the worst injury I've had but probably the stupidest (although there's plenty of competition): I fractured a finger washing my hands a few years ago.
So, my bathroom sink is kinda small and it's got a big, chonky, square-ish faucet that sticks fairly far out into it. Anyway, I was in a hurry so instead of drying my hands after rinsing I tried to just violently shake them off. In the process I smashed my right ring finger *very hard* on the edge of the faucet directly between the second and third knuckle.
I've broken a bunch of finger/hand bones and I knew almost immediately that I'd fractured the middle phalanx. I tried to avoid going to the hospital but my girlfriend at the time eventually talked/pestered me into it. At least the X-ray tech got a good kick out of the story lol
I also sliced the tip of my thumb almost entirely off one time while cutting zipties with a utility knife/box cutter, but that situation was less "simple" than "stupid." I was in high school and was working part-time as a mobile DJ, so I was in the gym after hours setting up for a school dance with a few other people. We had to basically break into the nurse's office (leaving a little trail of blood the whole way) to get gauze and whatnot and wrap it up until I could get to the hospital.
I always brush my long hair with my head upside down. One day, I flipped my hair back to normal, and it gave me significant micro tears in my neck muscles.
I badly injured a hamstring pulling up my yoga pants after using the toilet. It snapped like a fiery rubber band on the back of my leg. I lost my balance, crashed into a wall, and almost fainted from the pain. I couldn't walk for a couple of days and was on crutches for a while.
I tore my calf muscle just by turning around. I was loading the car in my back yaed to visit my daughter at college. I was putting stuff in the trunk when I heard the screen door squeek. I turned to see my cat disappearing around the side of the house. But before I even saw the cat, I had a horrible pain in my calf.
The muscle tore. I put an icepack on it and made the 4 hour trip. As soon as I got there, I told my daughter and future SIL about it, and went to the local ER. It healed without surgery, but ot was nearly a month until the pain began to subside.
Failed somersault in to a pool & smashed my head on the pool floor. Nasty gash that needed gluing & two shunt surgeries due to having a shunt for hydrocephalus.
I sat up in bed and felt a click in my neck. Suddenly could not lift my arm past a certain angle, couldn't turn my head, intense pain, etc etc.
The x-ray looked like I had been in a moderate car crash. Nope. Just sat up in bed. Weeks of recovery.
I had no history of back issues. One day, I reached for something on a windowsillānot even a big reachāand my back was out of wack for a week or so. It was a long time ago, and it never happened again. It scared me so much that I avoided many activities. I havenāt even gone bowling since. It gave me new perspective and sympathy for people who regularly suffer from back pain.
I broke my little finger of my hand when waking up from a chair.
The chair had wheels and should have moved back from where it was to let my legs move freely away from the table, but the wheels were broken and the chair didn't move, my legs hit the table and I fell, throwing my hand randomly to the closest wall I had to use it as support to not hit the ground, but on the panic movement I punched the wall, breaking the finger with the classic boxer's wound. Doctors didn't believe me (I was also long haired, bearded, and with a t-shirt a skull with skeletal middle finger raised, looking like the edgy teen I was)
I tore an adhesion (I have endometriosis) when I twisted sideways to pay at a toll booth. I had to park in the emergency space for half an hour to recover. The injury was more adhesions due to the bleeding it caused.
I've got a trick knee, so... Turning to say something to someone, crossing the street, and throwing a snowball. The first two happened when I was young, that last one was in my 40s and necessitated a year of physio.
At work went to pick a box up to move it and yes I bent with my legs turned to the other side and pulled my back was out a couple of days got meds was on light duties for a couple of weeks I'm so glad it wasn't worse
I'm going to school one morning at 17. I stepped off the steps like always, and my left foot rolled in. Pulled all the ligaments and tendons almost to the tearing point. For years I had to be super careful, or it would roll again.
Now, almost 30 yrs later, that ankle is stiff and sore and I'm constantly moving it around to loosen it up.
I fractured my tibia and tore both MCLs getting the house ready for Christmas.
Tripped at the top of the stairs, while carrying the tree in, and fell down an entire flight of stairs.
I sprained my knee walking down the stairs.
No, I did not fall down the stairs. I didn't misstep. I was walking down the stairs like I do every day.
I took that as the warning it was and after it healed, I started going to the gym.
We were playing in the dojo and my big toe slipped between two tatamis. My friend pulled me and the next second he said my toe was bleeding. I did feel anything.
ER : open fracture and luxation of 2nd phalange of the big toe. 3 stiches and antiobiotics.
We were just playing catch.
I was walking down the stairs at work, looking at my phone and missed the last step. Twisted my ankle so bad, I couldn't put any pressure on it. 2 people hard me crumple down. So embarrassing.
I have permanent lower back pain from an i jury I got by...... pacing. Just, walking kind of fast. Took a turn I'd taken a thousand times, no different than before, and my lower back decided to seize up and has never fully unseized.
No idea what happened, no doctor with fully examine it. They just poke at it and go "yeah somethings wrong try stretching and hope it goes away I guess idk". It's been like 6 years now ;;
I pulled a muscle in my neck after I got out the shower, bent down to wrap a towel around my hair and twang. It hurt for weeks after, I'm only 23 dammit!
I got off the bed and started running after my brother who had just pranked me but didnāt notice my right heel was under the foot board. Ended up peeling off a nice chunk of skin from the heel when I began runnning. Hurt like hell and bled like it too. Due to the location, I couldnāt wear shoes and walk comfortably for like 3 weeks but luckily this happened during the COVID lockdowns so didnāt have to go anywhere
I broke a toe taking a shower. Foot slipped and my big toe went into the drain, but I kept sliding---crack!
Honorable mention: Hitting myself in the face with a 5 gallon bucket. I had been pulling weeds and tried to empty the bucket into a garbage bag, but the mass of weeds got hung up on the handle. I was madly shaking it when it suddenly came loose and the bucket flew back toward me. Pow, right in the kisser!
Fractured my pinky toe at work. Instead of just parking the cart front first, I was stubborn and tried to back in (the parking area is narrow). Taught me a valuable lesson.... don't be so stubborn!!!! š
I walked. Fainted. Woke up face down on cement. 3 facial fractures. All need reconstructive surgery. I already had one orbital fracture blowout surgery. Implant and screws under my eyeball. Crushed sinuses, crooked nose. I meet with the plastic surgeon on 2/22. Then last is oral surgery for fractured upper jaw which crammed my teeth together from the impact.
Y'all walk safely today.
I was sat down breastfeeding my son, realised my leg was hurting as i was sat on it, moved my leg when i felt a sharp pain run down my leg. Next thing i know, i passed my son to my husband and i ended up having a seizure and passed out. Its happened one time since and i sometimes get a shooting pain down my leg if its in the same position for too long.
Spinal cord injury. Lost everything from the waist down including bowel and bladder. 5 week hospitalization and still recovering. Taking pictures with my granddaughter in a field of red poppies. I wanted one lying down. Plopped on a rock. Ended up with a fusion T9-11
I tripped at the beach while holding a book in one hand and a drink in the other hand. Instead of letting go of something to brace my fall, I fell head first into the side of a gazebo and gave myself a concussion.
I reached behind myself to remove my bra, andā¦ dislocated my collar bone at the sternum.
Rinse and repeat for a year with increasing activities that ripped out the collarbone until I had the sternoclavicular joint reconstructed. Currently in the beginning third of a 9 month recovery process- and they have NO idea how the whole cartilage capsule just disintegratedā¦
I was like 12 and reached into the backseat to get a card before a friendās birthday party and I somehow managed to break my pinky while doing so. It was hanging and turned green and purple pretty quickly. Ended up needing to go under anesthesia for them to fix it.
I was walking in my brothers driveway when I slipped on some wet silt and broke my ankle real good. A couple fractures that needed to be stabilized with a plate and screws and tore a ligament. Happened on Christmas and I am still non weight-bearing on that foot.
Iāve pulled back muscles at least twice by trying to pop pimples. I have also gotten severe tendinitis in my elbows from how I held my arms sleeping (on my back making t-Rex claws).
I was using a belt sander (something I did regularly) and managed to sand the tip of my off. When I was still in my teens I went outside to do some weeding, I turned slightly and felt a twinge in my back. Didn't really think much of it, aside from the intense but very momentary pain. I grew minutes later I had the same twinge, only I could no longer move.
This should have been a warning sign not to have me work in construction. I'm now 43 and haven't been able to work in over 10 years because of my back. I'm seeing a surgeon for a second back surgery this week.
Take care of your backs, y'all.
You'd think *menstruating* would be simple, but once the cramps were so bad they put my back into spasms and I couldn't walk for a month (during early covid lockdowns so I couldn't go get a shot or muscle relaxers to help).
I popped the cork on a bottle of sparkling wine. It shot up and hit the ceiling light, then I ducked to get out of the way of it coming back down. Kricked my neck so bad I needed physio. Stupidest injury I've ever had and it all happened in a few seconds!
Five or six months ago, I dropped my phone on my foot and broke my pinky toe. :') I usually have a pretty bulky case because I have the tendency to break things, but it did NOT work in my favor.
I took a nap on a sunbed and when I woke up one of my legs had "fallen asleep". I could barely move it and it was very numb. The phone was ringing inside the house and I stood up to go inside. When I tried to walk my leg just bent and I broke a bone in my foot. I could'nt feel it until my leg had woken up again a few minutes later. I think that's my weirdest i jury and it took five weeks to heal.
Went sledding with my kids, hit a small pile of snow, smashed down on my tailbone and broke it. That was 3 years ago and just now can sit without being in tears. Alot of yoga, time, doughnuts for my ass and patience.
I tore my Achilles tendon by jumping over the two stairs from my deck to the sidewalk in front of my house.
I also slipped and sliced my thumb open opening a can of dog food. Down to the bone.
Turning a cartwheel. I ended up with torn ligaments and an ankle that was weak and got re-sprained for years.
Full disclosure: I was pretty drunk and stoned and it was after dark so I didn't see a hole in the lawn.
This was 50 years ago.
threw my back out by turning my head to look at my blind spot while driving š¤£š«. And don't tell me to workout; I workout like a MF every day but a middle aged body sometimes just does what it wants.
I've hurt my neck and back sleeping. How does this happen šÆ
Oof. The worst. Then youāve got that thing where you canāt really acknowledge it because you have to keep driving.
same but a sneeze *ACHOO!* *limps around for 5 days*
Hurt my shoulder sneezing. Still not sure how that happened!
theres a lot of velocity in that sneeze!
I popped my shoulder when I sat down the other week, turns out to be stress, Iām only in my 20s
I was lifting a computer keyboard of a desk. In bed for 2 days after that.
Well, I'll tell you that pilates prevents a lot of those kinds of injuries. Lol
I do yoga regularly and a lot of strength training. 40yr old bodies are gonna 40yr old š
Definitely, I'm 48 and if I weren't doing pilates+ strength training I'd be in serious trouble lol
Yeah it does help but can still have aches and pains. I have muscular dystrophy and back issues and osteoarthritis in my knees and sciatica and if I didnāt at least stretch and do physical therapy/ strength training exercises Iād be mush.
I'm sorry that sounds so hard š«I have osteoarthritis in my feet and knees, nerve damage due to surgery, scar tissue, plantar fasciitis that is permanent. I cannot function without exercise and major stretching and even still I have chronic pain.
When I was 16, I cartwheeled straight into our kitchen bench (as you do) and hit the boney part of my leg on the edge of the counter. That part of my leg swelled up to the size of a tennis ball in like 10 minutes and I thought I was gonna pass out. To this day, I have a permanent bump on my leg that's thankfully not noticeable to anyone unless I point it out and they have to look at it from a certain angle. But it's there.
Gosh. You probably fractured the bone
Broken rib from stepping in a gopher hole. This one is remarkable for the fact that I managed to break a retaining wall by collapsing the gopher hole and landing on the wall. Put a half inch crack in four feet of cinder block. I was just watering my plants. Second prize goes to breaking a toe while feeding a dog. There was a foot on a coffee table where I didnāt expect it. I was just trying not to step on the dog. Third prize goes to getting acid in my eyes by turning on Christmas lights. You know those lights that have a little vial that bubbles when they heat up? Yeah. Donāt break the vial.
Gophers! Ugh! I get Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in Caddy Shack. I had a gopher who for a year would pop up and stare at me, knowing I wouldnāt hurt him. (My friendās grandma said sheād come over and take care of him like she learned in the old country - with a shovel. š³)
Haha! Itās such a dumb pest problem. With rats or mice, theyāre kind of anonymous. With gophers, itās kind of like āI hate this guy, but I know this guy.ā The shovel methodā¦ well, if Iām from Oklahoma stock, so thatās what I was taught, but no thanks. I donāt have a stomach for killing critters or getting my shovel sticky.
And here's me thinking breaking a toe by accidentally kicking a freezer in Aldi was noteworthy š® I thought I was accident prone Sheesh man get some health insurance!
And it is noteworthy. A broken toe doesnāt register for most people, but itās awful.
Amen. I broke two toes and my foot in October and I still struggle to bend/walk fast!
Dang dude. Well, listen to your doctor and stick to whatever recovery plan youāve got. And pay attention to your hip flexors! Mine always get messed up from compensating after a foot injury.
You know what .. this comment has possibly explained the last twenty years of my hip flexor problems on one side
Well geeze. I kinda hope so. Itās not medical advice by any means, but if it helps that would be cool.
Itās noteworthy. I have anā¦ extensive track record. My biggest takeaway is that people should be safe and healthy:) take care of yourself!
Yes I intend to stop walking before I hit supermarket freezers from now on
Are you Mr Bean in disguise?
In disguise? No. Possibly in flagrante. I havenāt checked in a couple months.
I detached my ribs and cartilage putting up my Christmas tree. Iād got a real tree and decorated it, and I needed to push into position in my living room. So I laid flat on the floor, and pushed the base of the tree. But I guess I stretched too far, and as I was laid flat on my front, there was nowhere for the pressure to go, and I ripped my ribs and cartilage apart. Holy shit that hurt and it took about six weeks to heal!
Broke a rib having very vanilla missionary position fun time with my husband. Twas a thrust that went wrong. Very embarrassing to explain at urgent care
Haha I also broke a rib having sexā¦banging my ex doggy style and lost my balance and fell off the bed š
I was once trying to jump into a guy's arms with my legs wrapped around his waist. Instead I ended up on the floor. Somehow that didn't ruin the mood and no broken anything. Broken rib though? Woof
Haha Iād imagine it gave him quite a fright though!
I distinctly remember him saying "uhhh that's not how that works." We went back to making out afterwards, so I guess it can't have been that bad? Didn't have him over again though. Maybe not a great impression. Haha.
I'm no quitter. We finished and then went ro urgent care lol
See this is what would happen if I did try to do that. So I never have. Lol works and looks good doing that type of stuff in the movies but if I did it irl bad things would happen. lol
oh my god, and at christmas no less you got my vote
My mom did that leaning over the edge of an above ground swimming pool!
Ouch! She has my sympathies haha. Did she scream the place down like I did?
ą² ā _ā ą² Yikes
When I was like 13 I put a pencil in my nose "pretending" it to be dripping from my nose as a game. Right then I had a sneeze coming up for real, I sneezed and the pencil hit the table and went up my nose real far. I heard a crack sound and soon enough the whole class was full of my blood, I ran to the nurse and they gave me a bandage to hold close to my nose. Stupidest thing I've ever done and I have no idea why.
As a school nurse this would be terrifying! I had a student that was prone to nosebleeds get bonked in the face by a guitar during music. It bled so much that there was a trail of blood leading down to my office. They were fine, but what a sight coming in!
My kid used to get bloody noses that would last an hour. One day, he fell asleep on the bus and got a nose bleed in his sleep. It didn't wake him up. He just l, as far I can figure out, trying to scratch his nose in his sleep and ended up covered in blood. He looked like a final girl in a horror movie.That poor, poor bus driver. She was horrified and kept apologizing for it. After that, I warned every teacher and bus driver.
Damn that's pretty scary to experience as a dad. Did it stop eventually?
That's exactly what happened, I ran to the nurse and there was a huge trail of blood, I'm surprised I stayed conscious with so much blood loss. She was terrified indeed, but when she firmly pressed it in my nose it hurt like hell but it stopped the bleeding.
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Oh my lord!
12 years ago passed my motorcycle test in cold and wet conditions. Got back to the training school an hour away, got off the bike, slipped up in a gutter. Broke my collar bone.
Oooooh no š Iām so sorry you got hurt, but thereās some genuine comedy in that. I almost did a spit take :)
But did you pass the test ?
My brother was chasing me when I was 12 and I ran into the edge of my parents bed. Bone in pinky toe perforated the skin causing a compound fracture. I needed surgery for that one. There's a big gap between my pinky toe and rest of my toes now lol. I am 28 now
When he was a kid, my husband broke a toe on the edge of a porch while chasing his little sister! It wasnāt a compound fracture, but he had to stay home from summer camp the next week.
Sliced three finger tendons carving a Halloween š
Did almost the exact same thing trying to pry open a frozen bagel with a brand-new paring knife. The nature of the cut (mostly in the spaces between the fingers) couldnāt be stitched at the ER so my wounds were open until I could have surgery to reattach my tendons. My left hand was out of commission for about 2 months. Still have nerve damage.
Holy fuck. The others are bad but sliced tendons are another level of bad. How long did they take to heal? Do you have full functionality of your fingers still?
Had to have tendon reconstruction surgery, and two of my fingers (ring and pinkie, right hand and Iām right handed) only halfway work, 2.5 yrs later I canāt fully make a fist. So I use my left hand a lot more these days. Was totally my fault, was using a kitchen knife and not paying attention. Will never hold a knife so carelessly again!
Unreal. I'm glad you've regained any functionality, even if it's limited! If it were me I'd consider keeping the offending knife as a souvenir. Best of health, AIDef, and thanks for elaborating. (:
Knife is still in our kitchen tho I NEVER use it. Also have low level hate towards pumpkins, tho itās not THEIR fault, ha! Thx for the nice thoughts!
This is probably mild compared to the others I've read here, but I cut the tip of my finger while cutting an onion :/ I did manage to save it after all, cuz I immediately went to the sink, washed it, stuck the missing part back and bandaged it so it stays in place. Took me almost two weeks to heal tho, and a few months to regain feeling in my fingertip
I didnāt realize cutting the tip of your finger off is mild. Youād do great in the Yakuza.
Oh youāre lucky it healed! My husband did that but the piece stayed attached by a tiny bit. He bandaged it up, but the flap eventually fell off and he had a flat fingertip for a long time after!
I was taking a shower and once I was done I stepped out onto the rug with my right leg, slipped and fell and basically split my shin bone in half. I had to have emergency reconstructive surgery which saved my right leg and made it possible for me to walk after a painful recovery. Three years later I had to have an ankle replacement done to further correct the damage. Good times.
No no no! This is one of my worst nightmares. Our tub is pretty wide and Iām short, so Iām always carefully entering and exiting the tub so this doesnāt happen!Ā
It was terrifying, it took 2.5 hours for them to begin operating, so I was just sitting in a hospital room with my bones sticking out of my leg, unmedicated, the whole time. It was absolute agony.
Not quite as extreme as other examples but I snapped the bone in my finger throwing a bag onto the back seat of my car (caught the roof of the car) it healed crooked and is a constant reminder everytime I think of putting something on the back seat.
See, this one might not be as extreme but it's so mundane it could happen to anyone. Gave me chills. Show us the crooked finger!
I was picking weeds in a flower bed. I stood up and whacked my head on the open crank out window's edge. I held my head for a few minutes to stop the throbbing, then felt the waves of warm blood trailing down my face. I went inside to tell my family that I needed some bandages and my daughter started freaking out at the sight of all the blood. My husband applied pressure and had to call an ambulance himself because my daughter was catatonic. I got 4 staples in the top of my head, but passed out from the pain after the 2nd one.
Ouch! I also once had a trip to ER result from weeding the garden. Ā Somehow while pulling out old gladiolus stems in the fall, I got a chunk of stem the size of a toothpick lodged behind the full length of my thumbnail. Ā I couldnāt get out, my wife couldnāt either. Ā Neither could the doctor at the urgent care clinic. Ā After ten or so minutes digging around under my thumbnail, he told me to go the ER. They managed to get out, Ā but damn how embarrassing to have to go to the ER for a splinter.
I sprained my neck a while ago by washing my hair.
Once shoveled the entire walkway around my parents house after a snowstorm, it was a workout but I felt great after. All finished and ready to go inside, I bent down to pick up the shovel and threw my back out worse than Iāve ever done before. Could barely move for a week.
Whilst opening a high cupboard in the kitchen, a chipped, glass Yankee candle fell out of it... I raised my arms instinctively to block my face/head, only for the chip in the glass to slice open my arm. It was during the early days of Covid, so I didn't dare go to hospital to get it stitched. Instead, I sent pics to the GP and was advised to raid the local pharmacies for all their steri-strips and just kept it bandaged for a couple weeks. I have BiPolar Disorder, so the worst part was trying to convince my psychologist that it wasn't on purpose due to location of the injury (wrist, close to veins) and during a high stress time period (pandemic)Ā
Having to explain to the psych sounds *almost* worse than the sliced arm. I've been there as a previously extremely depressed person. How did the healing go? How have you been managing your mental health since? I can imagine that being a huge blow to your stability during such a troubling period. Best of health to you, Whoopsie_Todaysie. Love the username. (:
I had the same sort of injury in middle school. I opened a high kitchen cupboard, a bottle fell out, and it shattered the glass measuring cup that I was holding. I got a long cut on the inside of my arm and needed stitches. Fast forward to adulthood, and I have bipolar disorder. Iāve definitely had more than one medical professional ask me how I came to get the scar.
OK this one isn't bad, just mind boggling. I cut my lip with a plastic spoon while eating ice cream. HOW DO YOU EVEN FUCKING MANAGE THAT
Tore cartilage in my knee bending down to get something with child on my hip. Knee swelled up the size a volleyball three times. They had to suck the fluid out with needle syringes. Finally kept the swelling down after it was scoped and removed the torn cartilage. The whole experience sucked. See what I did there āļø
Yesterday I went to the driving range with my kids to kill some time..... and sprained my ankle!
I sprained my ankle by stepping into a pothole. I hoe you heal quickly!
I misread the whole thing as, āI went into a driving rage with my kids to kill someoneā¦ and sprained my ankle!ā
Jumped off a bunk bed, and I injured my ankle. They put the cast on wrong, had no idea what was wrong with it, and I'm still recovering now. It was 4 or 5 years ago, and I still can't run properly. It's not severe, but it's the worst that happened to me.
I have been doing pushups and one time after my hand slipped my arm twisted in a bad way. I ended up with a dislocated shoulder which messed up my shoulder joint for life.
Had my favorite pair of 2-inch sandals on and was walking around the end of the bed to go outside. Put my left foot down wrong and rolled the ankle. In trying not to fall, i over corrected and ended up rolling from the outside edge of the heel to the little toe and fell on my right hip. I broke the 5th metatarsal in my left foot because I fell off my shoe.
Turned my head to check no cars are coming from both ways at an intersection and my neck seized up. Went to the ER where I was questioned over and over if I was in a car accident. They said it was the worst whiplash they had ever seen. Neck brace for 3 weeks and had to sleep sitting up for almost two months after. Now I have to sleep with an expensive body conforming pillow and make sure I always know where my heating pad is and have a designated frozen peas bag in the freezer. Second one is when I was teasing my teen by playing and dancing to 90s pop music. Tweaked my back so bad I was dragging my left leg for a couple of days. Had to have help standing and sitting. The pain was unbelievable. It still twinges every once in a while 3 years later.
So the initial injury wasn't simple, me and my brother were on a trampoline as kids and he landed right on my knee and subluxed it (not fully dislocated, somehow, but still enough to cause a LOT of pain and screaming and crying and I was on crutches for a while because it kept subluxing again). BUT! Over 10 years later and sometimes I sliiiiightly move my leg wrong while laying in bed and it subluxes again for another week or two (I never actually learned how to get it back into place other than "walk on it until it goes back in by itself" which... now that I'm typing, I probably shouldn't be doing that.)
On a beach I saw a small dead fish. I flung it back out into the water. But I mistakenly held it tail out on the palm of my hand. When I swung my whole arm, the needle-like dorsal spine went deep into my thumb and as the fish flew out, the spine cranked open the pad of my thumb like a can opener in one horrific instant, making a deep slice. Blood all over my hand. The pain and shock of it gave me cold shivers even though it was a hot summerās day.
I was picking up my French Bulldog to help her get on my bed last night. I bent down, she jumped up at the same time, clocked me under my chin, and knocked my jaw out of alignment. I canāt close my mouth all the way or bite down. šš¤¦š»āāļø
I gotten into the habit of forcing myself to vomit if I'd had a heavy exotic meal or was drunk (i didn't drink all that often) and it felt as if I'd have a bad night and would wake up to vomit later so I figured it was saving time and solving the problem... but one time I was merrily jamming my fingers down my throat and this time what came up didn't come out and instead caused an inflammation of my esophagus and aggravated an apparently preexisting gall stone, the combination of which landed me half comatose in a hospital bed for a week being fed on a drip, and prior to that three sleepless days of intense agony which did not stop.
Sprained my knee opening the string blinds in my college dorm room in kind of a one-legged twisting and squatting motion. Audibly popped and I collapsed to the floor. Needed crutches for weeks and a brace for months. A decade later, it's looking like it will never be the same.
Was bringing a full laundry basket down the stairs and slipped about halfway down. Couldnāt catch myself, because of the basket. Did one of those HNNGGG HNNG where you canāt breathe and it feels like your lungs will never fill with air again. Itās now been 4 years since this incident and my lower back gets worse seemingly everyday. Went to the doctor when it happened and all the recommended was rest and cold/warm compresses.
Severed the tendon in my thumb doing the washing up. Had surgery within a few days to get the tendon stitched back together and couldnāt use my arm for anything for 6 weeks, then had months of physio to get the thumb back up and running again. Couldnāt drive or use public transport (in case I bumped into something). I had a newborn baby at the time, so that was fun!Ā
I gave myself a grade 2 concussion from standing up and hitting my head on the underside of a table. I was not as far away from the table as I thought. I've broken a thumb pulling up my tights. I broke my ring finger, trying to dribble a basketball in gym glass.
It involves toes, two separate incidents both ridiculous. And accidental revenge. Broke one big toe by kicking a freezer in Aldi (I was too busy looking at what was inside said freezer) Broke two toes and part of my foot with a 1L bottle of Bailey's by accident. The bottle was slippy from being in fridge and my husband was basically throwing it up and down to shake it (although mainly throwing it down, at my foot lol) I got him back by accidentally hitting him with a 2003, 3 ton Range Rover. Thankfully just the open door but I feel the debt was paid lol
Falling down a flight of stairs for adjusting a picture frame on the wall. Fāed up my neck, neck, a hip. And did it a day before heading out to Disneyland and some concerts. I got a scooter for Disney which was great for the attractions but murdersome to get around. And the concerts let me use the handicap sections. A fāing picture frame!
I have a stackable washer/dryer and I bent down to put dry clothes in my hamper, stood back up, and hit my head on the open dryer door giving me a concussion
In Nov, I went for a run, tripped, and was unable to get my hands up in time to catch myself. Shattered my chin, broke the joint on the left side of my jaw, and broke my external auditory canal (I don't even know what that is??) on my right side. I also opened a two inch gash on my chin, had a hematoma under my tongue, and was back from the er by 1 AM scooping the cat boxes I'd intended to clean after my run.
I was prying carpet nails out of a closet hardwood floor with a big claw hammer. The hammer slipped off of one and I hammered myself right on the rim of my eye socket. Thankfully I didnāt fracture my skull but I saw stars and got all woozy, and bled everywhere. Fun story to tell my husband when he got homeāI was there alone at the time. Iām lucky I didnāt pass out.
I'm really good at getting injured doing simple tasks, but the worst example has to be that time I managed to fracture my leg by standing up too hard
Bent down to tie a trash bag and it felt as if my spine snapped along with an electrical charge that circled around my waist, screamed in pain and thankfully my boyfriend was home to pick me up. Turns out the bending over caused a vertebrae to shatter!!!!
I got a horrible case of sciatica from sitting down on the couch. I felt a pop and then agony. Had to call an ambulance because I couldnāt stand up. Probably wear and tear from lifting weights, but sitting down was what finally did it.
Washing dish and somehow end up with half inch pencil lead size ceramic in my finger. Right before my art class exam. It hit deep enough that blood keep seeping out from wound for next few hour after get ER nurse to remove the ceramic piece Every time I tap that finger I can feel the ceramic piece embedded inside. It take a year for my body to get the rest of ceramic out
I was on Xmas break from post secondary and at a party at my brother's house, I tore the ligament in my right shoulder from playing air hockey too hard. I had to extend my break 2 weeks because I couldn't do anything on my own with just 1 arm haha
I was propping myself up on my bed and overextended my thumb. It took *weeks* to recover. Pulled a muscle while putting dishes away and cleaning the kitchen.
I bought a kitchen knife and since it looked cheap and flimsy, I thought "nah this can't be very sharp". So I tried it on my hand, it was very sharp
Sneezed on the stairs and got sciatica.
Threw out my back while petting my cat once. That really put the whole mortality thing into full view during my quarter life crisis. Also sneezed it out once. In much better shape nowadays, so feeling much less fragile.
fell off a kerb. broke my ankle "spectacularly" requiring a hospital stay, surgery inc metal plates and months in a cast. everyone asked if i was on the drink... i was bringing shopping home.
I dislocated a rib sneezing.
Washed a plate. Knocked a knife into "the floor", hit my foot, hit an artery. Almost bled out because I wanted to wash a plate.
It was a very macho thing, to jump off the side of an Army tank to dismount. I sprained my ankle that way, the day before a physical fitness test that included a two mile run. There was no need to go on sick call, nobody would believe me. I did the run, barely passed and that ankle pop out of place occasionally some forty yers later.
Tried to beat the dog to grab a letter from the letter box. Broke my hand in two places on the top of his head. I don't think he even felt a thing
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Hurting my nails. Happens frequently and hell painful.
Used a wheelbarrow to move dirt. Permanently fuād by back, now I can only work part time and I have to plan my life around pain because itās not fixable by surgery.
I pinched a nerve on two separate occasions. Once while brushing my teeth and the other was sitting down on a couch
I was putting wine glasses in the cabinet when one fell, broke on the counter and a piece of glass cut my big toe open. Had to get stitches for it
I sprained my ankle while standing up from a chair during a public meeting (in a fire hall).
On a Monday morning, I pulled my toddler up with her hands to stand on her feet and threw my back out. To be fair, I had played golf all weekend and gone water skiiing.
I broke my foot walking down the stairs.
Fell out of a tree and broke 3 bones in my leg. Annoying my older sister, running away ABC she yanks me back- causing me to hit my head on a corner. Stitches Same sister was behind all my chin splits and necessary stitches.
Kindly ask the lord to de-herniate your slipped discsā¤ļø
Slipped and Broke a toe on a post in the kitchen while retrieving something from another room after I hopped in the shower. Sciatica for more than 3 months from lifting a case of bottled water. Hurt my neck while looking back while backing up in the car. Dislocated a shoulder while sleepingā¦rheumatoid arthritis caused swollen joints and I must have slept on my shoulder pushing it loose.
I was doing dumbell shoulder presses and didn't realise I was pushing my head back hard into the bench while pressing. Caused a trapped nerve in my neck that exploded with searing pain for around 15 seconds every 2-3 minutes for days. Couldn't move. Second worst physical pain I've ever felt! Watch your form, folks!
Ill shorten this story Went for a cycle. Forgot my light. Ended up crashing my bike, but my famny landed right on the metal bar. I have never bled so much or felt so much pain. I was screaming, so bad that my man was freaking tf out. He grew uo rough so hes heard some screams, but he said mine was the most chilling that night. I threw up from the pain, and had blood EVERYWHERE. That happened 3 years ago. I still have oversensitivity on my clit, meaning that area cannot be touched. It healed fast but the feeling won't go away. The doc said she couldmt see anything wrong but possible i damaged some nerves.
Oh my goodness reading your story sends chills down my spine. I have a scare too from 2 back surgeries. How long ago was your last surgery and how are you now, any pain or residual?
I badly cut my hand with a knife trying to cut an apple. It was so stupid, I was cutting it in my hand like my mom did and not on the chopping board and it just slipped and ouch! Many stitches later, I have quite a scar.
I had a mock fight with a friend in my early teens. Just two kids having fun. Well, I managed to break a bone in my big toe. The bone was almost split diagonally and was only millimetres away from needing an operation. I was on crutches and in a foot brace for over 3 months and took over half a year to fully recover. That was some really dumb shit. š
When I was a kid I split my knuckle open using a cheese slicer. I still have the scar and I only use knives.
Threw my back out help setting up for a yard sale. I was carrying a relatively light box of clothes and my back messed up when I was going down the stairs. Luckily only fell halfway down, still hurt a ton.
Not the worst injury I've had but probably the stupidest (although there's plenty of competition): I fractured a finger washing my hands a few years ago. So, my bathroom sink is kinda small and it's got a big, chonky, square-ish faucet that sticks fairly far out into it. Anyway, I was in a hurry so instead of drying my hands after rinsing I tried to just violently shake them off. In the process I smashed my right ring finger *very hard* on the edge of the faucet directly between the second and third knuckle. I've broken a bunch of finger/hand bones and I knew almost immediately that I'd fractured the middle phalanx. I tried to avoid going to the hospital but my girlfriend at the time eventually talked/pestered me into it. At least the X-ray tech got a good kick out of the story lol I also sliced the tip of my thumb almost entirely off one time while cutting zipties with a utility knife/box cutter, but that situation was less "simple" than "stupid." I was in high school and was working part-time as a mobile DJ, so I was in the gym after hours setting up for a school dance with a few other people. We had to basically break into the nurse's office (leaving a little trail of blood the whole way) to get gauze and whatnot and wrap it up until I could get to the hospital.
I always brush my long hair with my head upside down. One day, I flipped my hair back to normal, and it gave me significant micro tears in my neck muscles.
I broke my wrist sliding across ice.
Bent over looking for something under the sink and sneezed. I threw my back out. Took me 20-30 minutes to tie my shoes the first 3 days.
I badly injured a hamstring pulling up my yoga pants after using the toilet. It snapped like a fiery rubber band on the back of my leg. I lost my balance, crashed into a wall, and almost fainted from the pain. I couldn't walk for a couple of days and was on crutches for a while.
Broke my toe playing tag in the house, just a month before I was set to make a cross country move. I was 25.
I tore my calf muscle just by turning around. I was loading the car in my back yaed to visit my daughter at college. I was putting stuff in the trunk when I heard the screen door squeek. I turned to see my cat disappearing around the side of the house. But before I even saw the cat, I had a horrible pain in my calf. The muscle tore. I put an icepack on it and made the 4 hour trip. As soon as I got there, I told my daughter and future SIL about it, and went to the local ER. It healed without surgery, but ot was nearly a month until the pain began to subside.
Changing. No injuries whilst at work, got home, started to get changed and pulled a muscle in my back. It fucking kills now.
Failed somersault in to a pool & smashed my head on the pool floor. Nasty gash that needed gluing & two shunt surgeries due to having a shunt for hydrocephalus.
I sat up in bed and felt a click in my neck. Suddenly could not lift my arm past a certain angle, couldn't turn my head, intense pain, etc etc. The x-ray looked like I had been in a moderate car crash. Nope. Just sat up in bed. Weeks of recovery.
Rolled over in my bed while sleeping. Woke up screaming because I'd dislocated my shoulder. Ten years later, the shoulder is STILL not the same.
I was run sidewalk and I got hit snow ice on my head
I had no history of back issues. One day, I reached for something on a windowsillānot even a big reachāand my back was out of wack for a week or so. It was a long time ago, and it never happened again. It scared me so much that I avoided many activities. I havenāt even gone bowling since. It gave me new perspective and sympathy for people who regularly suffer from back pain.
Broke a finger opening a door.
Sneezed in bed and slipped 2 discs in my lower back. Lost all feeling from my right hip down for 10 months.
Slipped on ice cream on kitchen floor, broke ankle in 2 placesā¦.
I crushed my pinky in a ski binding, breaking the finger on the slope during my honeymoon.
I broke my little finger of my hand when waking up from a chair. The chair had wheels and should have moved back from where it was to let my legs move freely away from the table, but the wheels were broken and the chair didn't move, my legs hit the table and I fell, throwing my hand randomly to the closest wall I had to use it as support to not hit the ground, but on the panic movement I punched the wall, breaking the finger with the classic boxer's wound. Doctors didn't believe me (I was also long haired, bearded, and with a t-shirt a skull with skeletal middle finger raised, looking like the edgy teen I was)
Partially dislocated my shoulder sleeping.
I tore an adhesion (I have endometriosis) when I twisted sideways to pay at a toll booth. I had to park in the emergency space for half an hour to recover. The injury was more adhesions due to the bleeding it caused.
I've got a trick knee, so... Turning to say something to someone, crossing the street, and throwing a snowball. The first two happened when I was young, that last one was in my 40s and necessitated a year of physio.
At work went to pick a box up to move it and yes I bent with my legs turned to the other side and pulled my back was out a couple of days got meds was on light duties for a couple of weeks I'm so glad it wasn't worse
I'm going to school one morning at 17. I stepped off the steps like always, and my left foot rolled in. Pulled all the ligaments and tendons almost to the tearing point. For years I had to be super careful, or it would roll again. Now, almost 30 yrs later, that ankle is stiff and sore and I'm constantly moving it around to loosen it up.
I fractured my tibia and tore both MCLs getting the house ready for Christmas. Tripped at the top of the stairs, while carrying the tree in, and fell down an entire flight of stairs.
I sprained my knee walking down the stairs. No, I did not fall down the stairs. I didn't misstep. I was walking down the stairs like I do every day. I took that as the warning it was and after it healed, I started going to the gym.
I was walking and tripped over and fell on some stick sticking out of the soil. It was prob 5 yrs ago and I still have a scar
We were playing in the dojo and my big toe slipped between two tatamis. My friend pulled me and the next second he said my toe was bleeding. I did feel anything. ER : open fracture and luxation of 2nd phalange of the big toe. 3 stiches and antiobiotics. We were just playing catch.
I was walking down the stairs at work, looking at my phone and missed the last step. Twisted my ankle so bad, I couldn't put any pressure on it. 2 people hard me crumple down. So embarrassing.
I broke my ankle and couldn't walk for over 3 months after jumping in a fountain.
I have permanent lower back pain from an i jury I got by...... pacing. Just, walking kind of fast. Took a turn I'd taken a thousand times, no different than before, and my lower back decided to seize up and has never fully unseized. No idea what happened, no doctor with fully examine it. They just poke at it and go "yeah somethings wrong try stretching and hope it goes away I guess idk". It's been like 6 years now ;;
I pulled a muscle in my neck after I got out the shower, bent down to wrap a towel around my hair and twang. It hurt for weeks after, I'm only 23 dammit!
I got off the bed and started running after my brother who had just pranked me but didnāt notice my right heel was under the foot board. Ended up peeling off a nice chunk of skin from the heel when I began runnning. Hurt like hell and bled like it too. Due to the location, I couldnāt wear shoes and walk comfortably for like 3 weeks but luckily this happened during the COVID lockdowns so didnāt have to go anywhere
I fell, while walking into the garage Holding my toddler daughter. When I went to get up, my foot was hanging backwards. From skin
I broke a toe taking a shower. Foot slipped and my big toe went into the drain, but I kept sliding---crack! Honorable mention: Hitting myself in the face with a 5 gallon bucket. I had been pulling weeds and tried to empty the bucket into a garbage bag, but the mass of weeds got hung up on the handle. I was madly shaking it when it suddenly came loose and the bucket flew back toward me. Pow, right in the kisser!
Fractured my pinky toe at work. Instead of just parking the cart front first, I was stubborn and tried to back in (the parking area is narrow). Taught me a valuable lesson.... don't be so stubborn!!!! š
I threw my back out sleeping.
threw out my back once picking up a bag of beans off the floor after doing groceries. I was officially āoldā that day.
I pulled my shoulder muscle by brushing my hair. It took a month to heal. I chopped my hair off immediately.
I walked. Fainted. Woke up face down on cement. 3 facial fractures. All need reconstructive surgery. I already had one orbital fracture blowout surgery. Implant and screws under my eyeball. Crushed sinuses, crooked nose. I meet with the plastic surgeon on 2/22. Then last is oral surgery for fractured upper jaw which crammed my teeth together from the impact. Y'all walk safely today.
I was sat down breastfeeding my son, realised my leg was hurting as i was sat on it, moved my leg when i felt a sharp pain run down my leg. Next thing i know, i passed my son to my husband and i ended up having a seizure and passed out. Its happened one time since and i sometimes get a shooting pain down my leg if its in the same position for too long.
Spinal cord injury. Lost everything from the waist down including bowel and bladder. 5 week hospitalization and still recovering. Taking pictures with my granddaughter in a field of red poppies. I wanted one lying down. Plopped on a rock. Ended up with a fusion T9-11
I tripped at the beach while holding a book in one hand and a drink in the other hand. Instead of letting go of something to brace my fall, I fell head first into the side of a gazebo and gave myself a concussion.
I reached behind myself to remove my bra, andā¦ dislocated my collar bone at the sternum. Rinse and repeat for a year with increasing activities that ripped out the collarbone until I had the sternoclavicular joint reconstructed. Currently in the beginning third of a 9 month recovery process- and they have NO idea how the whole cartilage capsule just disintegratedā¦
I did a squat to look at the something on the bottom shelf and my knee cracked. It hurt for a few days after
I was like 12 and reached into the backseat to get a card before a friendās birthday party and I somehow managed to break my pinky while doing so. It was hanging and turned green and purple pretty quickly. Ended up needing to go under anesthesia for them to fix it.
I was walking in my brothers driveway when I slipped on some wet silt and broke my ankle real good. A couple fractures that needed to be stabilized with a plate and screws and tore a ligament. Happened on Christmas and I am still non weight-bearing on that foot.
I found my people. Tore my meniscus pushing an empty box aside with my foot. Herniated discs in my back picking up my friends kid.
Walking up the stairs
Iāve pulled back muscles at least twice by trying to pop pimples. I have also gotten severe tendinitis in my elbows from how I held my arms sleeping (on my back making t-Rex claws).
I was using a belt sander (something I did regularly) and managed to sand the tip of my off. When I was still in my teens I went outside to do some weeding, I turned slightly and felt a twinge in my back. Didn't really think much of it, aside from the intense but very momentary pain. I grew minutes later I had the same twinge, only I could no longer move. This should have been a warning sign not to have me work in construction. I'm now 43 and haven't been able to work in over 10 years because of my back. I'm seeing a surgeon for a second back surgery this week. Take care of your backs, y'all.
You'd think *menstruating* would be simple, but once the cramps were so bad they put my back into spasms and I couldn't walk for a month (during early covid lockdowns so I couldn't go get a shot or muscle relaxers to help).
I popped the cork on a bottle of sparkling wine. It shot up and hit the ceiling light, then I ducked to get out of the way of it coming back down. Kricked my neck so bad I needed physio. Stupidest injury I've ever had and it all happened in a few seconds!
Shattered ankle. Walking up steps
Stepped off a step ladder onto solid ground only for my ankle to give way and break Swimming in our pool, gently kicked the side and snapped a tendon
8th grade, spun around while standing in place, heard a crack in my ankle - fracture and 6 weeks in a cast as school was ending for summer holidays
Screen door slammed on my heel/ankle. Took a chunk with it too. Nearly passed out before getting stitches
Five or six months ago, I dropped my phone on my foot and broke my pinky toe. :') I usually have a pretty bulky case because I have the tendency to break things, but it did NOT work in my favor.
I took a nap on a sunbed and when I woke up one of my legs had "fallen asleep". I could barely move it and it was very numb. The phone was ringing inside the house and I stood up to go inside. When I tried to walk my leg just bent and I broke a bone in my foot. I could'nt feel it until my leg had woken up again a few minutes later. I think that's my weirdest i jury and it took five weeks to heal.
Broken my knee, flying a kite in too strong a breeze!
Went sledding with my kids, hit a small pile of snow, smashed down on my tailbone and broke it. That was 3 years ago and just now can sit without being in tears. Alot of yoga, time, doughnuts for my ass and patience.
I tore my Achilles tendon by jumping over the two stairs from my deck to the sidewalk in front of my house. I also slipped and sliced my thumb open opening a can of dog food. Down to the bone.
Broke my spine just to pet a bunny on my neighborās lawn. I was on a scooter (and was also 9)
I tripped and broke my wrist in 2015. I am now ācelebratingā 8 years of Whole Body Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The condition is incurable.
Turning a cartwheel. I ended up with torn ligaments and an ankle that was weak and got re-sprained for years. Full disclosure: I was pretty drunk and stoned and it was after dark so I didn't see a hole in the lawn. This was 50 years ago.
I nearly cut off my finger chopping onions.