Have you ever experienced severe bodily injury? How did that experience affect you?
Felt my lower back pop yesterday and couldn’t walk or stand up straight as the day progressed yesterday. A bit better tonight after a steroid shot and muscle relaxers, but it’s some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt. Literally cannot stand up straight and can barely lift my leg to walk.
I’ve had several surgeries in the past and have a high pain tolerance (have woken up in surgery before). Former college athlete with several operations. This is a completely different feeling - sharp pain around a 6 or 7 on the scale if I try and stand up straight. I would put a brace 3 ankle strain at a 7 for right when it happens and you literally can’t move it. Once had a pop in my neck and couldn’t move my head for 2 days and had to support it with a towel wrapped under my chin and neck, and that would be around a 7 as well.
I went from perfectly healthy to barely being able to shower in the span of 12 hours. Makes you appreciate being healthy. I couldn’t imagine living with this pain for more than the expected week or s
I was a downhill MTB racer in my youth and rode mountains in Switzerland and France. On day I hit a tree at almost 50+ mph with my left foot. It is funny how your body numbs the pain immediately and you don't feel anything. The following months weren't so great though. All my tendons were ripped off and had to be reattached.
Luckily, recovery was fairly fast and I had no lasting physical issues with it.
That, however, was the last downhill race of my life.
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Happened to me in high school and my back has never been the same since… I have periods of my life since then where my back goes out like you mentioned and I can’t do shit for a few months and have to rehab. It took a huge toll on my mental health especially when it first happened as it made me retired from playing sports as I physically couldn’t even walk more than 20 mins for over a year. Whenever my injury resurfaces I tend to slip back into a bad state of mental health even though my life was great prior and i was extremely happy and it takes so much effort to overcome it and get back to being happy through the pain.
Broke my leg in three places back in highschool. It really made me realize that I'd been taking my body for granted. After I recovered, I made it my personal mission to move my body every day (weights, run, swim, surf, ski, etc) and treat it with the utmost respect. You only get one meatsuit, treat it right.
I've broken my collarbone, which isn't too bad. I tore both Achilles and that was horrible. I couldn't walk on anything except my heels for over a month. I also experienced some damage to my spine which affected my right arm. Numbness. Pins and needles. Feeling like someone is pouring acid on you. I did physical therapy for my spine to get better, but just personal PT - I knew the exercises and didn't go into a place for PT.
Back is a bit better today but still absurdly painful
Oh ok damn. Hope you feel better. 420 if you can.
damn - how do you tear both achilles?
In 2016 at Thanksgiving, my Mom’s dementia started to become severe and we were having a conversation and all of a sudden she smiled and said “could you tell me your name again?” It was a dagger to the center of my heart.
I hit the gym hard the next day and started to jump rope in between sets and kept jump roping to kill the pain I felt inside.
I was also cutting and was a bit heavy, so my Achilles were taking a lot of abuse.
The next day I went harder and jumped rope even more. I was at the gym for 4-5 hours just to cope with the mental anguish. At this point my Achilles started to hurt and I thought I was getting stronger, but I was really tearing my Achilles day by day.
I did this for about 5 days and at the end of that day I knew something was very wrong. I was crippled and could no longer jump rope at all or walk on the front of my foot. The worst part was getting up to the 3rd floor to my apartment. I literally had to walk on my heels backwards. Definitely one of the worst injuries to have. Luckily they didn’t sever, just very severe tears.
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