You hear about “‘roid rage” but never knew it could happen after a few days on them. 😬

Hope they helped your SIL.

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PerceptionOk3196@reddit

I was putting cayenne pepper around my yard to keep stray cats out and basically maced myself.

Also, strained my back trying to turn over under my weighted blanket.

TheJQN@reddit

I was helping my niece warm up to pitch in her softball game. She had an errant pitch that hit my big toe, and broke it.

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wanderlust_2x1@reddit

De-gloved my arm with the storm door latch. Pretty nasty looking! 3”x3” section of skin fillet off like a fish.

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m0j0j0rnj0rn@reddit

I woke up one day with a torn meniscus.

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TeaManTom@reddit

Me: The dog is so good for my health, gets me outside, walking, active...

So how did I get hurt?

I guess I slept too hard, because my ear canal hurt when I woke up. Also elbow and wrist and knee on my right side.

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AllUpInItYo@reddit

Well, it's not lately, but, as GenX, I feel this injury qualifies ...

I stepped off a curb, not looking, fell, and tore both of my quad tendons. Didn't realize those were things.

As our generation does, I tried to "walk it off" for a few weeks. By the time I got MRIs (three weeks later), the doc said it was emergent. He admitted me on the spot, had surgery the next day.

If you have the choice, don't do what I did.

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megaboz@reddit

My wife just sneezed.

Achoo--ouch!

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Trin_42@reddit

I just had to dig an embedded tick out of my torso, got a gnarly little divot in my skin rn

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Dense-Consequence-70@reddit

There’s a place you can send the tick to check if it has Lyme

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sfdsquid@reddit

I have a friend who told me about having to remove a tick from another friend's taint.

rockin_robin420@reddit

Sounds legit. My wireless earbuds make me mental.

I just hurt my wrist retrieving an icepack for my wrist.

Is it time for us all to just hang up our jocks?

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Sensitive-Issue84@reddit

Lol! I have that same injury! It's my knuckle though because I rest my book on my knuckle.

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scarlettohara1936@reddit

Dropped a table on my toes. Twice. In 2 days. Once to set it up on Sunday then again on Monday when I folded it back up. I picked it up to put it away and the handle just let go. I thought for sure the police were gonna come because I screamed so loudly!

My spouse and I joke that we’re just one good fart away from the wheelchair since I tweaked my back lifting one cheek today let one rip.

We also half jokingly have a rule: only one of us on the stairs at a time so someone can call 911 if the other one falls. Otherwise we’ll have the headline “Elderly Couple Found Dead at Bottom of Stairs”.

No a grape or a slice of pineapple.

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ratalada@reddit

Oh my feet felt dry (all my skin does - thanks perimenopause) so I put lotion on them and then socks. Apparently my socks were quite thin and when I went to stand up (was sitting on edge of tub), I only slid until my feet hit the basin of my sink - hard. Nice nasty bruise on one foot and the both swelled.

It doesn't look as bad now a week later, but ...ouch.

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whatmeworry95@reddit

I stepped out the front door, twisted my ankle fell down. There is a 3 inch elevation difference, nothing crazy..

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sfdsquid@reddit

I whacked my kneecap on a chair the other day. That sucked so much. The cats were all staring at me because I was making disturbing noises.

No, it's not weird, but it was unexpected. In hindsight, I should not have done that.

kaycole69@reddit

Went to go pee. Got up off of the toilet and tweaked my lower back. It still hurts a week later...

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BlackBasementCats@reddit

I woke myself up in the middle of the night because I pulled a muscle in my back under my right shoulder blade. I was sleeping on that side to keep pressure off my left hip because I have bone rubbing against bone on the side of a vertebrae, and it’s making my hip hurt too.

Sobriquet-acushla@reddit

🤭

Deep_South_Kitsune@reddit

s/paranormal would like a word.

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I spilled soup on the kitchen floor, slipped in it and sprained my ankle

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cwal76@reddit

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I've done that before but didn't fall after.

You might want to get that seen by a doctor...

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Detroitdays@reddit

Well..I just broke my ankle Easter evening. Was sitting with my legs crossed. Foot fell asleep…I got up and fell on the second step. 4 more weeks.

And frightening.

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No-Chair-8068@reddit

Yeah, that, too. And depressing. But also funny.

I feel like this guy:

I was on my knees scrubbing the shower floor when my knees slipped, and I ended up in the W position we used to sit in as kids.

Fractured my jaw by eating a piece of dried mango then again with a piece of naan bread after an oral surgeon probably cracked it after a coronectomy. Mouth wired shut for 2.5 weeks and had these screwed into my upper and lower gums. Lost feeling in my lower left lip to unde my chin because I think he screwed through the nerve after removing the dead detached piece of my jawbone and scraping the necrotic bone off that was rotting away.

Oh I got a good one.

I threw out my knee during a colonoscopy.

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allmykitlets@reddit

Not recently, but a number of years ago I sprained my wrist bowling. Wii bowling, to be exact.

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tinahowlett@reddit

February 2025. After being awakened at 1:20 am by the beeping smoke detector, I discovered my house was on fire — from the outside going in, and two feet away from the propane tank.

After calling the fire department — which took 30+ minutes to get here (rural 40 acre property during a catastrophic ice storm with mega winds and waist high snow drifts) — I started shoveling snow (pure adrenaline) onto the side of the house (board & batten) to slow the spread of fire, wearing nothing but my housecoat and winter boots btw)

The fire and tanker trucks arrived and saved the rest of the house - but I ended up separating the abductor muscle from my hip replacement. 5 1/2 hour surgery to remove original artificial hip, reconnect the muscle and then replace the hip, and now 15 months later, I’m still in recovery but the house is almost rebuilt back to normal.

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allmykitlets@reddit

Oh my goodness, that's awful. All of it!

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catm0m4lyfe@reddit

Slipped on my sealed concrete floor kitchen floor, slid headfirst into my bathroom door which is a raw wood barn door situation, got splinters in my head.

Jumped down from 2 feet high in much. Flip flops went one way, both feet went the other. Ended up with a broken foot requiring surgery and hardware and the other ankle got a cadaver tendon. Surgeries were 1 month apart and was in a wheelchair for 6 weeks. It took 7 months in PT to learn to walk, balance, get up off the floor, climb stairs, etc. The goal in each session was not to fall over.

Day before yesterday I tripped on my walk to work and probably cracked a rib on the way down.

In August, I was stepping into a swimming pool on vacation. Put my weight wrong and broke my tibia!

Got a whole new bedroom setup, new frame, nice and tall, new bedside table, the whole shebang.

Rolled over to turn off my alarm the next morning and gave myself a black eye on… whatever the hell I wasn’t expecting to be eye level?

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Left-Nothing-3519@reddit

I stepped off a level straight curb, onto a straight level asphalt road. I was DD, so no alcohol or fun stuff in my system. My ankle twisted outward, I felt a pop as my entire body landed on it. I still walked with our friends to where my car was parked. Drove everybody home, went home myself and went to bed. Woke in the morning in absolute agony with an ankle the size and color of an eggplant. Took an uber to urgent care. Instead of my ligament stretching or tearing off it held on tight as superglue and snapped my 5th metatarsal instead. It took almost 8 mos to completely heal. But I did have an awesome pirate Oleg

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Nelyahin@reddit

I got up to walk into my kitchen and get coffee, tripped over nothing and tore a ligament in my ankle. Couldn't move downstairs for over a month.

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Creepy_Radio_3084@reddit

Not lately (as in within the last month) but fairly recently...

Woke up in the middle of the night needing the bathroom. Had clearly 'slept wrong' and my right foot and ankle had fallen asleep. Ignored that, stupidly put my weight on my right foot first when getting out of bed, right foot decided to bend inwards, I was past the point of no return and brought my whole weight down on my poor ankle! Forward momentum had me going face first into the side of a wardrobe, so I threw my right arm up and pushed myself sharply backwards to land on my butt. This woke my partner - I assured him I was fine, got myself up off the floor (LEFT foot first this time) and hobbled to the bathroom. Foot and ankle were still numb, so didn't really register much, went back to bed, slept until morning.

DiceyPisces@reddit

I regularly hurt myself sleeping.

also pretty sure I broke multiple small bones in my foot last month at a kids play place. Thing blew up and turned blue. Just starting to feel normalish.

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Z-man1973@reddit

Sometimes when I run out of nowhere my ankle or knee might hurt, basically out of nowhere because I didn’t do anything to injure myself… but generally after a half mile or so it will go away.

Not lately, but a few years back I threw out my back tossing a throw pillow on my couch.

I missed a Rob Zombie concert that night because of it.

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

Lucky for them; I’m not sure they were ready for such a wild woman.

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No-Hospital559@reddit

My chair swung and then my ski snagged the snow getting on a chairlift, causing me to eject. My arm twisted around, dislocating at the shoulder. Now I have several months of physical therapy before surgery and then more physical therapy….

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StreetMolasses6093@reddit

So, my ski caught like that once years ago and wrenched my leg back, ripped my ski off. I didn’t fall off, by my leg was really hurt and had the most impressive contusion. I always wondered what would have happened if the ski hadn’t popped off.

It was 22 years ago, so if the same happened now, I’m sure my leg would have broken. It was wrenched back hard. I can picture exactly how that happened to you.

How are you now? I’m actually really worried about you.

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No-Hospital559@reddit

This was a month ago, I completely fractured the end of my humorous bone and the ligaments in the joint are pretty messed up. They want me to do PT for a few months to see how much will need to be repaired with surgery.

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StreetMolasses6093@reddit

I mean, getting injured before even getting off the lift is so wild! I’m so so sorry this happened to you.

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

Husband kept waking up due to hip pain, mentioned it at his next check-up, and was sent for x-rays to rule out cancer.

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amy5252@reddit

Nov: tripped over my middles of night. Broke 5 ribs, hand and nose. At hospital they found double pneumonia and clots. 5 weeks icu them rehab March: Stood up and spine fractured in 3 spots. lol. Hospital again 3 weeks rehab 3 weeks

Cranberry1717@reddit

I have a Gen Z co worker who laughs every time I brace myself for a sneeze. I bend over at the hip with my back straight, put my hands on my thighs and suck in my stomach as hard as I can. “Just you wait, Missy!!” I tell her.

I do deadlifts twice a week at the gym and they’ve never screwed up my back like a sneeze has!

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qriousqestioner@reddit

My grandmother used to tell me, "it's okay. You'll be old someday."

I'm approaching the age she was when I was born, am fairly active. But I had a hip injury that required a replacement.

I also remember how impatient I was walking with older people. I'd think, "yeah, I know it hurts, but you could still move faster." Um... no, you can't move faster because the pain causes your body to involuntarily freeze; and if you go too fast the pain will be right the same, but you might faceplant.

I'm at an age where I spend a lot of time and energy helping my parents. They are the boomers who worked hard all their lives and need help they can't afford. I have no kids. I'm the past few years, I've had thoughts that amount to wishing I could find a way to sign over my life and organs to someone in exchange for enough money to sustain my parents. Like literally offer myself as tribute. Because when they are gone, I will have no life and only ailments. 🤷🏻

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Cranberry1717@reddit

I am one of six siblings. Four of us are childless. Most of my friends are childless. My sibs and I have talked about moving to a large commune or something together when we retire. I have also brought my childless friends into this idea. You are more than welcome to join us if it actually happens! I can tell from your post that you’re a wonderful person.

Trying your pillow strategy.

I like an overstuffed, firm pillow.

When you lie down, wedge it into the neck area. (Might help? 🤷🏻)

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Rivetingly@reddit

Yup, sleeping causes me more pains than anything.

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OverMlMs@reddit

I have three headache disorders, so if the barometric pressure shifts ever so slightly I wake up feeling like I’ve been run over like a Mack truck and my head is going to explode.

I’d really love to live in a climate controlled bubble at this point, lol

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infochick1@reddit

Anytime the barometric pressure slightly changes then I get vertigo. It’s debilitating. Not to mention the following headache and fatigue.

I can’t seem to eat anything but oatmeal without having stomach aches.

Ew.

Did you get that searing neck pain that happens only occasionally and feels like the end of the world as it happens?

Walking my dog..

I saw a dead rat in the middle of thr street. My dog saw it too, as we got a little closer. It had a lot of bugs crawling in it.

Dog wanted to run over and smell it, and dashed at it. I reflexively tensed to hold on to the leash and ended up straining some tendons and muscles in my elbow!

Now it hurts to grip with that arm and I gotta do daily stretches to hopefully recover in 6 weeks?!?!

Getting old sucks

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qriousqestioner@reddit

Similar injury -- lifted one too many grocery bags out of the trunk; one of them was heavier than I expected and swung in the wrong direction.

Aspercreme is helpful--moreso than a pill.

My doc: train yourself to not use that arm for lifting your giant water tumbler. 🤷🏻

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catsdelicacy@reddit

I broke a little bone in my hand installing an aquarium light.

Not something that can take a cast or even that hurts every second, but if I turn my left hand wrong or bump it in the wrong place I have to sit there and breathe for a few minutes!

In late 2022, caught my sneaker on carpeting in a hotel hallway, fell, tibial plateau fracture, surgery, three months of non-walking, six weeks of learning to walk again. Feeling mostly normal about 18 months later (and since).

Caution to my fellow GenXers…walk carefully, and don’t fall.

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jen_esse@reddit

Threw out my back once pulling muffins out of the oven.

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qriousqestioner@reddit

Man! I can relate.

My back is in pretty good shape, but I had a hip injury that resulted in needing a replacement. The last year before the surgery, I was disabled and couldn't work; I was still the primary cook at home.

The number of times I almost fell into the open, hot oven!

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PSN_ONER@reddit

I feel this. I literally threw my back out getting up one morning for work. It took about three days to get sorted out.

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vonye25@reddit

Hello darkness my old friend, I stood up to fast again. Passed out, banging my head and got a really bad concussion. I’ve had a headache and blurry vision for four months.

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doesanyuserealnames@reddit

😟

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paula924@reddit

Five months ago I picked up a small shelf in a thrift store and cut my hand open on a nail sticking out of the back. I decided to leave the store immediately because infection is always a concern for me and I wanted to get it cleaned up.

I did not see a patch of ice in the parking lot in the dark. My feet flew straight out from under me and I went down. It messed up my neck, I have trouble with numbness in my hand, my tinnitus is twice as loud, I have all kinds of problems from post-concussive syndrome and of course my hand got infected.

That $2 shelf has cost me thousands in ongoing medical bills and pain and I ended up not even liking the dang thing.

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KittyTB12@reddit

lol oh my… I received a “free” candy bar at work- somehow managed to break a crown and had to have it removed. That candy bar was is no way shape or form “free” 🤣

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Daohaus@reddit

I was doing my run and normally cut through this open space preserve. My right foot stubbed a rock that was protruding out of the ground which caused me to take a tumble. Not a big deal light abrasions on my left elbow. But a few days later, my RIGHT shoulder blade muscle area developed a dull ache and it’s been well over a month going on two with massages etc that it’s finally getting here.

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EnoughEstate7483@reddit

I've put my back out sneezing, picking up a sock, cleaning up my dog's shit, throwing out a tissue, having sex, ...

The list goes on.

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Disassociated_Assoc@reddit

I could have typed that post in its entirety. Sucks ass to be sure.

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

Same here! Its on a fine thread and I shouldn't bother it by existing.

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SlickDumplings@reddit

Threw a giant Palmetto bug off my chest by throwing arm to the side and back. In sling from surgery for torn tendon.

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Weird-Girl-675@reddit

I just got my foot stuck in the couch and almost fell into the coffee table.

BraveLittleFrog@reddit

You’re more forgiving than I am, lol! Actually, we just don’t have a use for him now. We want to keep his ewe lambs so he needs to move on. He’s young and should get another ‘working’ job.

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PaulyRocket68@reddit

On Wednesday, I the dog a bath, leaning over the tub. Usually, I get in the tub with him and stand over him, but not this time. I had some muscle fatigue in my glutes and thighs, and felt some minor fatigue in my lower back but nothing I couldn’t handle…or so I thought.

My lower back has been in spasm for the last four days. Alternating between tylenol and flexeril, sleeping flat with a heating pad at night, icing intermittently during the day. The heat keeps my muscles from spasming at night, the ice has helped with pain and swelling.

But at least the white dog is no longer beige.

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Zakkrazy@reddit

Few years ago my toddler jumped into bed with us and somehow tore my labrum. Took over a year to heal.

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glory87@reddit

SlyFrog@reddit

Okay, I didn't really hurt myself, but it was funny.

I'm flying back from a vacation in Europe. At one of the museums, I pitched forward too far to try to see the inscription on an old coin in a display case and loudly banged my head off the display case glass.

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

Considerably brightening some security guard’s day, I’m sure.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

Oh man, those big museums have one hell of an echo too.

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International_Act_26@reddit

Lifted a 5-gallon jug of water for my water dispenser and now I have a bulging disk in my neck. I lifted with my back, really, I did!

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qriousqestioner@reddit

I had a disintegrating hip joint while working as a server. I had to lift with my back. It was years before I could finance a surgery to replace the hip.

I recovered over years to being very close to the mobility I had before. But I still catch myself defaulting to lifting with my back.

It's frustrating because I learned when young to lift with my legs. It's like I so successfully switched to the only way that worked then and have a hard time now changing the default.

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lorelie53@reddit

Tore my meniscus walking up the stairs.

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FloridaGirlMary@reddit

I got out of my car and my knee was hurting for 2 days

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Remembering my seventh grade year, please take comfort in the fact that you distracted the ruthless kids from their favorite bullying targets. (I was that kid and lived in a panicked state every minute of every school day.)

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liveitup63@reddit

While adding antifreeze to my tractor I slipped and fell on the loader bucket. Nothing broke but I did get 5 stitches in my arm. My sister said I should retire before I kill myself

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

Most of my uncles were farmers. I don’t think any of them departed this life with all their original parts intact.

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liveitup63@reddit

I know what you mean. Most of those old farmers had a few fingers missing from the fan belts or the husking rollers on corn pickers. It wasn't safe to be alive back then

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Robbudge@reddit

Tore my rotator cuff, turning on a table lamp WTF.

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

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I was at a Nerf party for kids. The adults joined for one round at the end, and I broke my toe on the carpet doing nothing.

PishPosh-01@reddit

This past winter we were having our tile kitchen floor replaced. We lost indoor access to our basement for about a week. No big deal, we can still access the basement using outdoor access. Obviously in the winter, it’s more inconvenient. We also crate our dogs in the basement, so we did have to access the basement several times a day.

We got home about 9PM one night after a freak snow. We had to let the dogs out before going to bed. We had a heavier snow about a week prior that had mostly melted, but re-froze in spots. I was having a hard time telling where the old (and now icy) snow patches were with the inch or so of new snow that had just fallen and was walking down the least steep downhill area to get from the driveway to our basement and I slipped in an icy patch.

My legs slipped ahead of me. I braced myself with my right hand, and fell hard on my right side, primarily my hip. Everything immediately hurt-back, rear end, hip, leg. I kind of just rolled onto mg right side laying in snow, contemplating if/how I could/should move. My husband saw it all happen. and came over to help me up. He asked me if I was OK. I told him that I thought so. I got up, we brushed all of snow off, took the dogs out, and then we got ready for bed.

I woke up at 1AM in excruciating pain. I went to the bathroom. My right arm was non-functional. I was sweating trying to wipe and just pull my pants and undies up. I knew I was hurt, but I was also very tired. I took 2 Motrin and tried to get to sleep. I couldn’t. My husband asks me if I need to go to the ER. I told him yes. He offered to drive me, but our 10 year old had to be on the school bus in a few hours and I had no clue how long the ER would take. I told him to stay home and I’ll just drive myself. My other arm was fine and I was able to at least prop my right hand on the steering wheel to drive.

So, to recap-I slipped on icy grass (not even on a frozen sidewalk) at 9PM on a Monday night, the week before Christmas when there’s an inch of snow on the ground.

Turns out I broke my right wrist AND my elbow. Since I’m now of a certain age…I’ve also gained the ability to tell when bad weather is rolling in. My daughter had 1 wrapped gift (that my husband wrapped) for Christmas, since I had nothing wrapped prior to breaking my wrist and elbow. Everything else was in Christmas gift bags. I also did no Christmas baking due to the injuries.

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mystery_biscotti@reddit

I'm on crutches because 12 days ago I tiptoe-ran while playing with kittens.

Medical finally got their shit together so now I have a referral to an orthopedic doctor. No imaging, just "here's some crutches, go rest, ice, elevate". What tore? Who knows! How long will I be on crutches? Anyone's guess! Can I walk? I'm a shambler now, great for zombie roles in movies.

I was ironically leaving a chiropractor appointment for my wife(I’m not much of a chiropractor fan personally). I completely didn’t see a step down from the building’s entrance, because I have a habit of keeping my reading glasses lower on my nose and my vision from my nose down was obscured.

I stepped into the air thinking I would hit the ground, and I fell on my butt with a jarring jolt. A shock went thru my body.

I thought I was fine, but the next day it was like my hip, neck, and shoulder had been tortured with hammers all night.

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I stepped down from my driveway onto my back lawn, normal step, not too high not too low.

My left ankle buckled, I must have tried to save myself but still ended up on the ground and couldn’t quite manage to get back up because I’d broken my right ankle.

Knocked my wife's numerous bottles off the wall in the shower and made the mistake of trying to pick them up.

Ha. I woke up this morning with such a severe cramp in one shoulder muscle that i literally could not move. Couldn’t even roll over, much less sit up.

My horrible physical sin? Leaning on one elbow while watching a fee TV shows before bed 💀🙃

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O-really@reddit

I do the same thing and always get a fucked up shoulder blade that causes pain all the through to my chest.

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FruityLegume@reddit

Cleaning my carpet. 😂😭 I used my carpet cleaner and did three rooms in one day, really going hard, going over it a few times. Walking backward, pulling the machine slowly with no shoes on. Woke up the next day and both my Achilles tendons and calves were so painful I ended up out of work for four days. And when I went back I was on a knee scooter for a week because one was so bad.

My doctor said "Well, that's a new one, but it makes sense."

At work when people asked me what happened I just said "over exercising" lol

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Active_Recording_789@reddit

My coworker bent over and threw her back out. She went to a chiropractor and he said let me guess, you didn’t do anything unusual? You’re the third person Ive seen today with the same story.

He also told her yoga is her best friend. Fyi

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knivesinbutt@reddit

I zipped up my jacket and threw my back out. Wife had to help me to bed to lay down.

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Ok-Street7504@reddit

Twisted to the left to pull the garden hose while I was watering and I had a sore back for 3 days.

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Living-One5265@reddit

I've been doing so much yard work that I'm just kinda sore. But the unexpected injury/over soreness is stepping over a baby gate i used to keep the dogs out of the back yard (don't worry we have a dog door and they can come and go as they please to the front and side yard) I must have stepped over that gate 30 times yesterday and my left shine and right calf are very sore this morning. I'm just waiting for it to warm up a bit more and I'll be back at it.

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FlukeStarbucker@reddit

I was very worried you didn't have a dog door 🤣

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Living-One5265@reddit

Right. While also being outside and enjoying the weather while the dogs just watch from the kitchen.

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redfoxblueflower@reddit

I tore my ACL (including partial tear of meniscus) playing volleyball 12 years ago. I was old then. All was well until last December when I tweaked my knee getting out of my lounge chair and felt an ache that didn't immediately go away. I wore a brace for a month, all was well. Mid-march, bent down to reach under a bedroom dresser and tweaked it again. Ache started all over again. Brace put back on. That night, sitting in my bathtub, pulled myself forward with the heels of my feet and my knee locked up.

Long story short, I am now 12 days post knee surgery to "clean it up" after tearing more meniscus and getting meniscus caught in my knee mechanism. All because of getting up out of a chair, kneeling to reach under a dresser, and finally, pulling myself forward in a bathtub.

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QueenRotidder@reddit

I messed up my knee 3 weeks ago by rotating my foot slightly inward.

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

So I've had a lucky run of it for most of my life; if I got injured, I could basically ignore it for a while and be good to go in a few days. (Exception for broken bones, serious skin tears that needed stitches)

About a year and a half ago, I woke up with numbness and tingling in my left arm and hand. It got more intense as the day went on, started to really hurt, so my wife took me to the ER to get checked out. No sign of heart issue, of stroke, etc, they basically had no idea what's going on. Nothing had "happened" that I could remember to cause the problem. It moved around my arm, would go up into my shoulder, down into my hand on the pinky side.

The pain was intense and moved around my arm and shoulder. I had to beg off from work, I couldn't focus on anything, after a while I got into a pattern of working until I couldn't stand it, then taking breaks. No pain reliever touched it. This went on for weeks; I finally got an appointment with a sports medicine doctor who diagnosed it as a pinched nerve in my left elbow. (She checked a number of things, did xrays, etc.)

A few days later, an ultrasound-guided injection of cortisone into the offending nerve brought immediate relief. Thank God for 21st century medicine. There is lasting damage; I have never regained full feeling in the pinky of my left hand, will probably be numb there for the rest of my life due to nerve damage. I can deal with that, I'm not in pain. Anyway, it was easily the strangest injury that I've ever had.

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xgenman@reddit

Wow, I had a very similar experience last year; my whole left arm was going numb whenever I'd lay down in bed. Went to the ED several times, coincidentally had an inverted t-wave with my heart rhythm the 2nd time (I'd just recovered from a flu which can apparently cause this) so they put me in the cardiac ward overnight to monitor me, had to do a stress test where they run you uphill on a treadmill until heart rate gets to like 180bpm and then quickly lay down and try hold my breath while they captured images... thought i was going to die right there lol... all that until finally on the last ED visit, the doctor asked if I'd injured my neck recently. I had injured it at work about a year previous to that and so they did scans and yeah, pinched nerve.

I had like a 2wk wait to get my first therapy session and it was so bad, my mum convinced me to see a chiropractor - something I never in my life thought i'd ever do. Always thought of them as quacks, but thought, what the hell. First adjustment relieved the pain, and with 2 sessions/wk, the numbness was gone after about a month.

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WhatFreshHello@reddit (OP)

I listened to a podcast last night with an actress from “The Pitt” and she mentioned that she now sees a chiropractor/kinesiologist to help with repetitive strain from take after take of lifting and moving bodies from gurney to bed, always on the same side.

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Potential_Miserable@reddit

Severe pinched nerve in my neck after reaching to turn off a window fan.

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CheeseburgerSmoothy@reddit

I walked

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No-Chair-8068@reddit

😂

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sdhank3fan619@reddit

Carrying a box down some stairs. Thought I was out of stairs, but nope there was one more. Even though I'm pushing 60, I skateboarded for a great portion of my life so remembered how to fall.

I was walking my dogs with my wife. When we got back to our house I couldn’t lift my right leg to go up our front steps.

Apparently I tore my meniscus.

Just walking.

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Ok-Custard-4515@reddit

I have gotten really out-of-shape in the past two years while working full time and going to grad school. Now that I finished school, I decided to start walking every day. Soon I developed serious pain on the top of my left foot. I finally went to the doctor and got an X-ray. Turns out I fractured my second metatarsal. By… walking.

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jaydrian@reddit

I ran into a hand rail the other day. Ribs have been sore for days. I blame poor design. My most common stupid injury is hitting my hands going through doorways. (adhd clumsiness)

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Agreeable_Peak_6100@reddit

I (55) stood up in the morning and fainted. Collapsed on the hardwood floor and my own body weight shattered my right ankle.

Had surgery to rebuild it — one plate and ten screws, and a three-month recovery process.

Now Hoka shoes are my best friends. 😆

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thickfreakness72@reddit

ooof i feel this in my soul! three years ago, i was making my youngest daughter’s bed which is kinda high (and i’m very short).

i always stepped up on a bean bag she kept at the foot of her bed to get up and down. the last time i did this, i lost my balance and fell off. dislocated my ankle & broke it in three places. took two surgeries to rebuild it. now OOFOS shoes are my best friend! solidarity, my friend! ✊🏻

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Agreeable_Peak_6100@reddit

Doofuses of Gen-X, UNITE!

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WeHoMuadhib@reddit

Posted this in a different sub. 53 male.

A few weeks ago, I got up during the night to go to the bathroom (menopause is a right bitch), got severely dizzy and fell over sideways, breaking my left clavicle in three pieces and fracturing a rib.

Folks, I'm clumsy but this was EPIC clumsy.

So I'm just sitting around with a collarbone in three pieces, waiting on it to heal because apparently my bridge fracture isn't "bad enough" to require surgery.

I cannot drive (doctors orders) so I'm working from home for another 3 weeks.

Gloomy_Shallot7521@reddit

Bruised the back of my arm on a cardboard box while looking for an old homicide file with a co-worker. Nice bruise and a line in the middle.

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NotARobotDefACyborg@reddit

Playing a game for fifteen minutes on my phone. Tweaked my neck to the point where I had to put a heating pad on and take a muscle relaxer.

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Quaranj@reddit

Sneezed while brushing my teeth, nearly knocked myself out on the faucet.

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BlmgtnIN@reddit

Herniated a disc just by bending down to fill my dogs’ water bowl.

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1block@reddit

Reaching to get something from the back seat of the car has done a number on my shoulder twice.

RedDoggo2013@reddit

Used to work in LE. Came home at 2:00 in the morning. Went into the bathroom off our bedroom to change out of my uniform.

I decided to put said uniform in the dirty clothes basket, so walked through our bedroom in the dark.

Eyes had not adjusted from bathroom light. Turned to walk into the closet and hit the door frame right in the center of my body. Black eye, bruises down my front.

Can barely walk for last two days.

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MooPig48@reddit

I call those “tragic sleeping accidents”

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LisaMiaSisu@reddit

Um, I just scarcely turned from the counter to the stove and my knee hurt like a son of a b. Why?!?!

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MooPig48@reddit

Since it’s spring my giant breed floofy dogs are blowing their coats

Well a couple weeks ago I went crazy with cleaning the floors, every vent baseboard crack and crevice. I was squatting down to do it

Took me a couple hours, at the very end I suddenly realized I could no longer force my leg muscles to lift me up! And my husband was at work. I crawled on my hands and knees to the couch thinking oh no wtf have I done to myself? 5 days of agonizing pain. It was rough

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tacostonight@reddit

I lay on my couch and game on my elbow on my left side.

Woke up the other day with tennis elbow so bad I couldn’t grip anything. If I extend my arm my wrist feels like it was electrocuted.

Since my brain can’t realize that this was the cause, I went straight to self diagnosing als and called my neurologist freaked out. I have severe health anxiety and I’m aging…. It fucking sucks.

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Strangely-addictive@reddit

I slipped on the tiles when getting out of the shower to take a phone call. Hit my foot against the wall and broke three toes. They were calling me to say they were on their way to pick me up for a weekend of hiking.

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Ecjg2010@reddit

Was carrying a really heavy beer Stein in my hand amd walked into the kitchen. Stein hit the wall amd bounced back into my face giving me a black eye.

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ridingwithgsdtx@reddit

51 m here about 6 months ago while getting ready for bed I spontaneously fell and smashed my face. Didn't trip no substances at work. I just face plant into my bed the best part this happens at my 17 year old son was walking in the garage door to look in my room with me bleeding on the floor. Fun..

Standing. Was at the kitchen counter making pasta. I finished rolling out the spaghetti and went to step away and almost fell over; must have locked my knees and my right knee was NOT having that. 3 days before I stopped limping.