If you’ve never sneezed and thrown your back out, count your blessings.
A few months ago, I pinched a nerve in my neck because I picked up a shampoo bottle wrong.
I’ve swallowed water the wrong way and had coughing fit that cramped my gouche.
I hope it never happens again, but I’m sure instances like that will increase.
Happens to me, when I’m too lazy to really sit up in bed, when I want a sip of water during a short wake up
The cramping is hell…
Oh yeah that’s happened. I had like a minor back strain already, took me a moment to stand up. In the middle of that process, I sneezed. Huge mistake.
Remember all those injuries you brushed off when you were a kid? They’re baaaack…
And they’re PISSED
Crying in Ehlers-Danlos. I was too bendy for my own good, and now I’m none bendy, left pain. All that is left is pain.
this thread is giving me an urge to exercise and eat salad
I ate a salad wrong last month, stabbed my self in the soft pallet with a lettuce steam and had a sore throat for 2 weeks.
But instead I’ll probably sit on my ass and have pizza tonight.
I mean, it’s Sunday.
we will get started on monday (i swear)
Exactly, the first Monday that has an “R” in it.
Next next next next next next Monday, am I right?
next one, no excuses.
I am currently lying down, not because I prefer the floor, my because I lay down to stretch a bit, and my back has now completely locked up. I’m not joking: I physically cannot get up, and a doctor is on the way. I’m not even 30 yet…
I would have thought the best aquaman would be more flexible…
I’m out of my element, on dry land. Once the doctor gets here I’ll just have them waterboard me for a couple minutes and I should be ok
Glad to hear you have a reputable spinal sturgeon and not some silly jellyfish selling snake oil.
*sea snake oil
I’m sat with an ice pack on my knee so I totally gey it
I need an update. Did you make it off the floor?
Made it off the floor and over to the sofa (with help). The doctor told me the issue was likely muscular (not directly caused by a prolapse in my back that I’m getting look ed at for). He gave me a bunch of painkillers and basically told me to munch those and move as much as possible, and it should hopefully loosen up In a couple of days.
I’m honestly glad to hear you’re alright.
Thanks :) the seas will soon be safe again!
I drank water too hard.
Untag me, please.
Ya’ll need to add ”walk an hour”, “eat a salad”, and “do calisthenics” to your daily routines.
And never stop doing it. One lapse or moment of weakness and bamm… back to the physio.
Constant vigilance 🙃
Not true at all wtf. If lapse is like a year sure
You’re quite right! The body thankfully does have some margin before it all goes downhill. I was exaggerating a tad to emphasize the vigilance aspect.
Although I do have older aunts and uncles who do need this level of high bodily maintenance.
(Not sure on your stance on Mr C.K but this bit lives rent free in my head on this topic Soz, couldn’t find a better link)
If by “one lapse” you mean “stop doing it for like a year”…
But yes I did that second part obviously
Born in the 70s. I’ve sat on my balls twice so far this year. That’s never happened before, I used to just laugh at the idea 😓
Kind of a tangent, but when I was younger I used to accidentally kick myself in the balls by sitting cross legged too quickly and hitting with my heel.
Wait until a loose toilet seat at a public bathroom slides to the side, and with all the motion, they get pinched between the seat and the porcelain.
new fear unlocked
I’ve heard of Poseidon’s kiss but this is a new lvl of danger I’ve never heard of. Thx for the new toilet fear.
Poseidon’s pinch?
😰 Oh dear, I know it’s going to happen now 😓
TBF I’ve been choking on water since I was a wee lad. I just drink too aggressively. A drinking problem, of sorts.
Drinking too hard is when you accidentally swallow too much at the same time, painfully forcing it down. I fainted once by doing this…
ohhh right. I do that, too. But not to the fainting level of effort.
You’ll get there with no effort, just give it time
Tap on the back
Nothing like sneezing so hard you get a crick in your neck for a week. 44.
Ffffffff
Fart while sneezing also hurts. Feels like something ripping.
Sneezing is one of the top ways people throw out their backs.
After having my back go out twice from sneezing, I asked my doctor about it. He told me this life changing tip which so far (6 yrs) has never failed. When you feel a sneeze coming on, pull your shoulder blades back and look directly up, you can sneeze as hard as you want in this position and you will be fine. In my experience just the looking up is usually enough to protect the back, the pulled back shoulder blades is just an added layer of protection.
You ever have a sneeze you feel in your arms for about an hour? Like you sneeze, your blood pressure hits 9000 PSI for 8.2 milliseconds and your ghost aches for awhile?
Yes!
Can’t say I have - but that’s a very vivid description!
Nope, can’t say that I have. You should get that checked out.
In my 20s I once threw my back out pressing an elevator button.
I think you just won the thread
I just threw my back out by reading his post
My worst mountain biking injury was because I looked down at my back tire and pulled the SHIT out of a muscle in my upper back.
And I used to crash a lot. The muscle pull was worse
I once sneezed hard and somehow had my hair caught in my armpit, hurting my neck
Thanks, that made me laugh
yoga is real good for this tbh
This. Just a bit of stretching and light exercise 10 mins a day can do miracles. Edit: He said, and just one day after tore all muscles in his shoulder and arm from scratching his butt while walking.
I dislike yoga more than I like not having some micro injuries
Hey if you type
beginner stretchesinto YouTube do any of them look like you won’t hate them?Random example:
Genuinely dislike stretching. I probably wouldn’t if I did them, but starting sucks most
We could do one crappy painful one tomorrow for sixty seconds and eventually see if you’re right on “probably”, here actually:
Voice assistant, set alarm for 1 PM (Pacific) called stretch | Kusi
OK! Thank you, I will move myself esp after some gym dude said something to me like “if you never exercise in your life but you at least stretch” something about better when older. Doin’ it for me thx 2 u (AKA no pressure 😎)
Yep. Life changing.
I once fractured my fibula blowing out a candle. I was, like, 17. You’re telling me it’s going to get WORSE?!
fractured fibula
blowing out a candle
How the FUCK did you manage to break your LEG by blowing AIR through your LIPS??
It’s called talent, learn it.
It was one of those tall, thin church candles that you normally put out with a long handheld suffocator. Me, I tried to just jump for it. Came down awkwardly on one of the thing’s feet, lost my balance, and my leg crumpled in under me as I fell.
Always said organized religion is a dangerous thing…
It may already be too late for you.
But I’m very tall. I managed to throw my back out by pushing in an empty dining room chair that even had felt on the bottom of the legs sliding over linoleum. That was last year, luckily no repeats. I don’t fear my dining room yet.
Last month my neck didn’t work. Pulled something while sleeping.
42, I’ve thrown my back out lifting the toilet seat.
36, laundry basket
At 30, dried my hair too hard with a towel. Pulled my neck
36 now. I don’t remember my exact age at the time, but at approximately eighteen I dislocated my shoulder turning over in bed.
