I never thought.... | TheaterFire

[-]

ItsLikeARewardAZ@reddit

Ha! I think I tore my rotator cuff on a sneeze yesterday! It’s not getting easier…

[-]

A couple of weeks ago, one of the local DJs here was interviewing Robbie Williams and they were empathising about "old man injuries". Robbie was like, "Oh yeah, I've hurt my back getting out of bed. No, wait....wait......I hurt my back turning around !". I chuckled and thought "Glad I'm not at that stage yet". Yesterday, I was about to have a shower. I straightened up, and my back seized. I'm 52 😀.

[-]

EnjoyingTheRide-0606@reddit

Happened to me a few weeks ago drying my coffee mug inside the car on the console. I stretched, took Advil and drank a lot of water. It subsided.

[-]

idrathern0tsay@reddit

Injured my back at 33, now if I move my eyes too quick to the left or right I throw my back out for a couple days.

[-]

reasonable_lunatic73@reddit (OP)

I feel you!

[-]

RickRI401@reddit

I'll be 53 at the end of June.

I consider myself fortunate to not have back issues yet.

Wednesday of last week, I climbed to the top of this suspension bridge on the catwalk, 285 feet above the water.

[-]

Salty-Gas-1172@reddit

I'm not sure what you think that has to do with sneezing.

[-]

RickRI401@reddit

My point was that I am fortunate enough that I don't have to worry about that...yet.

[-]

Ralgol@reddit

Cool story

[-]

SignificantTransient@reddit

Train yourself to breathe out before a sneeze.

You'll thank me later.

[-]

Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

I sneezed once when was around 32, threw my back out, and could barely move for a week.

I braced myself before a sneeze.

[-]

Global_Friend5300@reddit

55f here. Often when I sneeze, my nipples hurt like someone pinched them hard, and not in a sexy way. I’ll sneeze then shout, “Oh, my tits!” My bff laughs her ass off at me.

[-]

IMTrick@reddit

I fear them, but probably for a totally different reason. In my case, I'll be 60 in a couple months, so my body is really starting to do weird shit. One of those things includes random nosebleeds every few weeks or so (which, after a few doctor visits, no longer go for hours like they used to, which is cool because there was a scary amount of blood loss involved).

Anyway, TMI, but among other things, sneezing was one of the things that'd bring them on. So, yeah, I fear sneezes since I seem to have hit an age where they are potentially fatal.

[-]

ElJefe0218@reddit

It's like a shotgun blast, a kick in the ass

[-]

chipinserted@reddit

So paranoid watch your back

[-]

kobuta99@reddit

I realize that I sneeze just like my dad, even the same sound. He used to scare us by how loud he sneezed. 😖

[-]

dafuqizzis@reddit

I have a recurring lumbar issue. Sneezes and coughs Give me amazing amounts of anxiety these days.

[-]

2PlasticLobsters@reddit

A sneeze or fit of coughing can set off my afib.

[-]

Automatic-Unit-8307@reddit

When I had a bad back, sneezing was like a truck just ran over me. Sometimes i would not be able to get up for 5 minutes

[-]

TakitishHoser@reddit

Yep, I brace myself when I sneeze cause I can blow out my back.

[-]

DtchGrl@reddit

Same.

[-]

JessieColt@reddit

The joys of getting old.

Trying to roll over in bed, and you pull a back muscle.

Sneeze and it feels like you cracked a rib.

My body, for some reason, has now decided that coughing fits should sometimes end in a half sneeze.

Tried to swallow something, ended up coughing like crazy, and then this bizarre half cough half sneeze right at the end. Coughing not working fast enough, lets try throwing in a sneeze at the end to see if that helps!

[-]

Bellabbey1236@reddit

Snoughing! I hate snoughing.

[-]

Purist1975@reddit

I like em like mini climaxes for me.

[-]

Purist1975@reddit

Dad's sneezing fits were epic.. ten in a row sometimes.

[-]

Apawling_Behavior@reddit

Back in 2018 one saturday morning in my kitchen I sneezed, popped a disk, couldn’t stand up any more. Was like the finger of God poked right through me. Eventually had to have surgery for it. I’m no fan of sneezes.

[-]

CommissionFeisty9843@reddit

I fixed a crick in my back with a giant bong hit.

[-]

fattfreddy1@reddit

I tweaked my lower spine when I was doing yard work last week. Now every cough and sneeze is like playing Russian roulette.

[-]

Badrear@reddit

I never would’ve guessed that sneezing could hurt my lower back.

[-]

Old-Somewhere-6084@reddit

I hurt my shoulder when I was 61. Sneezing hasn’t been the same since then, and I sometimes do my best to avoid having one.

[-]

Vegaprime@reddit

Try scream sneezing instead. Its louder but easier on the back.

[-]

Enlightenment72@reddit

1972 here.

For the entire time I was around my mother, when she sneezed, it was not a simple "achoo" sound, but a searingly loud "AH-HACIA!" scream.

As a small boy, I figured I was doing it wrong when I sneezed through my nose, so I tried to imitate her and nearly guillotined my tongue when my mouth instinctively slammed shut!

Never attempted it again. I still can't see how she did it!

[-]

Vegaprime@reddit

When I do it, its up to 15 times sometimes as well. If I get half that many in, my whole workplace starts barking with me as well. It can be embarrassing but before I learned to do it I would pull the taint muscle sometimes and that would drop me immediately. Someone compared it to what airforce pilots do to keep blood in the brain. Maybe start there.

[-]

Enlightenment72@reddit

Maybe start there?

I don't know what you mean. I can't do it and don't want to. It's too dangerous for me to sneeze like that since I almost bit my tongue off. I was just saying that my mother used to sneeze like that and it was an oddity my siblings and I wondered about.

[-]

Vegaprime@reddit

My mistake. Apparently you can't handle it. Bok bok!

[-]

dope_mantra@reddit

I have multiple herniated discs in both cervical and lumbar regions. I also have a mild prolapse and sneezing can end up being hours in bed.

[-]

NixKTM@reddit

Me too, four pro lapsed discs, an unexpected sneeze can floor me for a month

[-]

dope_mantra@reddit

Prolapse in the pelvic region. Should have clarified.

[-]

FlippingPossum@reddit

I've pushed out two kids. Sneezing requires me pausing and clenching muscles. God help me if I have to sneeze on my way to the bathroom.

[-]

Honeybee71@reddit

As a woman, sometimes we pee a little lol

[-]

xpunkrockmomx@reddit

This.

[-]

kat2211@reddit

I'm 59 and have learned through hard experience to brace myself before either a sneeze or a cough. You kind of learn to channel the force internally rather than let it blow out in all directions.

[-]

Enlightenment72@reddit

I was born with asthma. I used to sneeze a lot but I guess Claritin has helped me more than I realized. It's laughing that makes me wonder.

I have what I call "Stroke laughs". One day, in my late 30s early 40s, I heard, "Adam Chandler, shut the F-" it ended with "front door", which is an expression I hadn't heard before, so I thought the woman was saying STFU in network television!

The thought struck me so funny that I flipped over laughing, which turned into braying! My eyes crossed, the room spun, and I couldn't hear or move for a while.

As I started to recover I couldn't remember what happened for a few seconds. It was so strange! I talked to my then PCP at the time and she said something about the brain being temporarily oxygen-deprived.

Once, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I tipped over in a chair and blacked out for a few seconds while talking to my therapist.

It's scary but also kinda fun. 🫤

[-]

reasonable_lunatic73@reddit (OP)

When I feel a sneeze coming on now, I lean forward slightly, put both hands on my knees, tighten my core, and brace myself. Luckily, I only have to deal with the jarring pain issue, I haven't shit myself. Yet.

[-]

tzweezle@reddit

I once needed surgery after a snee2

[-]

Left-Thinker-5512@reddit

How about bending over to pick up something you dropped on the ground?

[-]

NerdfestZyx@reddit

I sneeze all the time because of allergies I didn’t have 10 years ago. At least 2 dozen times a day.

I am now the old man who blows his nose with a cloth handkerchief, and shoves that same handkerchief back into his pocket.

[-]

Mediocre-Team1715@reddit

I laughed out loud. I leaned down to zipper my backpack and tweaked my back. “What did you do?” “Move?”

[-]

mommy2libras@reddit

I've had 2 kids so sometimes when I sneeze, I pee a bit. It really sucks. You don't get to plan or prepare for that, just carry extra clothes in the car & hope for the best. Especially at this time of year where I'm sneezing like 5-10 times a day due to seasonal allergies.

[-]

VixxSynn@reddit

We have special pads for that…trust me, they’re FABULOUS.

[-]

umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

I've had this phenomenon since I was little re: debilitating seasonal allergies. I used to have to spend a chunk of the summer in our basement in the A/C to prevent the outdoor attacks. I have learned to bend my knees when I feel all 475 sneezes coming on, to prepare for the jolt through my body. And I try to hold onto a stationary object. A wall. A chair. It's now serious business preventing a thrown-out back. I don't mind peeing my pants a little. That's just annoying. But a thrown-out back is no fun.

[-]

la_winky@reddit

I missed most of every August of my childhood because I was asleep from antihistamines.

I’m still pissed my parents planned every family vacation for August. We camped. I spent many sweltering days passed out in the pop up camper.

[-]

umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

Oh, do I get it! Same-ish for me, but my misery always starts in spring and goes through late June. Every year, just in time for Mother's Day, I'd be freakin' miserable, puffy face, nose dripping like a hose, barely able to open my eyes from sneezing and tears just pouring out of them. And yet, the family would always get some outdoor patio restaurant for Mother's Day. And I wasn't allowed to opt out. My life in the basement was my only relief. Laying down there on a couch with a cold washcloth on my eyes for hours. I had years of my life going to the allergiest for shots in each arm. Never did anything for me.

As an adult, Zyrtec has been as miraculous as it gets. It doesn't cure me, but it's made a serious difference.

[-]

NixKTM@reddit

I fear sneezes as i have sciatica and a sudden unexpected sneeze can cause one of my knackered discs to move and bring on a sciatic episode.

[-]

VixxSynn@reddit

It’s a valid fear. Some shit can happen when you sneeze.

[-]

jrsixx@reddit

Literally

[-]

VixxSynn@reddit

I knew someone who sneezed, dislodged and undiagnosed brain aneurysm, and dropped dead on his front porch, 35 years old. This was back in the 90’s…and that incident still sticks with me.

[-]

jrsixx@reddit

Holy hell! Her I was just making a poop joke.

[-]

DepartmentNatural@reddit

You should know one of the old people rules is never trust a fart too

[-]

HappyHolidayHomo@reddit

Sneeze, fart, sneaky leak, then my back is out. Its called old age multi skilling..

[-]

Fee_is_Required2@reddit

You made me lol 😂

[-]

Right_Sentence8488@reddit

As a woman, I have to make sure my legs are crossed right when I sneeze. Childbirth effects linger.

[-]

Fee_is_Required2@reddit

Yep. This. This is awful.

I’d seriously rather snot flew out of my nose.

[-]

One_Love_Mama@reddit

I got a small rebounder (firm mini trampoline). I bounce on it 10 minutes a day and no longer have this problem. Highly recommend. It does take time, but worth it.

[-]

lucid_intent@reddit

Yep, we pee. You can also suffer a uterine prolapse from too much coughing. I finally have penis envy. lol

[-]

Gudakesa@reddit

I sneezed while walking up my driveway last spring. I have my second spinal fusion and 4th overall back surgery in May.

[-]

RandyBeaman@reddit

I used to work for a spine surgeon. He said sneezing is one of the biggest causes of ruptured discs.

[-]

Fee_is_Required2@reddit

Really?! TIL!

[-]

TemperReformanda@reddit

Just last night I nearly painted the bathroom with mouthwash. Got a big swig and suddenly a huge emergency sneeze hit.

I ended up sneezing into the sink just in time lol

[-]