Relatable

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you’ve never sneezed and thrown your back out, count your blessings.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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…

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Remember all those injuries you brushed off when you were a kid? They’re baaaack…

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  • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And they’re PISSED

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  • Aksamit@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  this thread makes me want to exercise and eat salad

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  • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • raptir@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But instead I’ll probably sit on my ass and have pizza tonight.

    I mean, it’s Sunday.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      we will et started on monday (i swear)

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• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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…

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  • werty@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would have thought the best aquaman would be more flexible…

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    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

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  • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m sat with an ice pack on my knee so I totally gey it

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I need an update. Did you make it off the floor?

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    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ya’ll need to add ”walk an hour”, “eat a salad”, and “do calisthenics” to your daily routines.

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  • button_masher@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And never stop doing it. One lapse or moment of weakness and bamm… back to the physio.

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    • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Not true at all wtf. If lapse is like a year sure

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      If by “one lapse” you mean “stop doing it for like a year”…

      But yes I did that second part obviously

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I drank water too hard.

  Untag me, please.

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• bpev@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TBF I’ve been choking on water since I was a wee lad. I just drink too aggressively. A drinking problem, of sorts.

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Drinking too hard is when you accidentally swallow too much at the same time, painfully forcing it down.

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    • bpev@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ohhh right. I do that, too. But not to the fainting level of effort.

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• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I stumbled a few months back stepping over a rope that was about fifteen centimeters off the ground and cracked a rib or something. I didn’t even fall, just kinda leaned forward the wrong way a bit. Pain for weeks.

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  • ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Something similar happened to my husband! Threw his back out by slipping and not falling on ice 😂

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    • Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe we should be trying less hard to not hurt ourselves. 😝

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• CPMSP@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing like sneezing so hard you get a crick in your neck for a week. 44.

  Ffffffff

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sneezing is one of the top ways people throw out their backs.

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    • hkspowers@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yes!

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    • CPMSP@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t say I have - but that’s a very vivid description!

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    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope, can’t say that I have. You should get that checked out.

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• cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 😓

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Stegget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      new fear unlocked

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😰 Oh dear, I know it’s going to happen now 😓

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  yoga is real good for this tbh

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  • Onionguy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This. Just a bit of stretching and light exercise 10 mins a day can do miracles.

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  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep. Life changing.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I dislike yoga more than I like not having some micro injuries

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey if you type beginner stretches into YouTube do any of them look like you won’t hate them?

      Random example:

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      youtu.be/FI51zRzgIe4

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In my 20s I once threw my back out pressing an elevator button.

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  • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you just won the thread

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    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just threw my back out by reading his post

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I once sneezed hard and somehow had my hair caught in my armpit, hurting my neck

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  • gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks, that made me laugh

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• JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I once fractured my fibula blowing out a candle. I was, like, 17. You’re telling me it’s going to get WORSE?!

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    fractured fibula

    blowing out a candle

    How the FUCK did you manage to break your LEG by blowing air through your LIPS??

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    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s called talent, learn it.

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    • JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It may already be too late for you.

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I sustained a stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal completely at random last year. No trauma, no accidents, nothing. Went on a five-day drive and returned to go to work. A week later my foot started hurting really bad. I kept working on it and eventually saw a doctor. Misdiagnosed as plantar fasciitis, and continued to work on it with insoles. I eventually had to get an air boot. Before long it was x-rayed and turned out to be a stress fracture with no apparent origin.

  The six month healing process was absolute fucking garbage and I would never do it again. Having nearly two months off of work was nice enough, but I couldn’t do much other than lay around elevating my foot. If I tried to get in my computer the pain in my foot would increase tenfold. Crutches to get around anywhere. Showered by laying spread eagle on the floor of the tub, blasting out my asshole with the shower head. Mornings were excruciating as the blood rushed to the fracture site and caused my foot to swell up big and purple. Genuinely the worst injury I’ve ever had to heal from. You’d think it would be minor.

  Have to assume I’m just getting old, I guess.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably just an alien foot implant - the injector slips sometimes.

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• Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • VitaminH@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    42, I’ve thrown my back out lifting the toilet seat.

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    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      36, laundry basket

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• JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I messed up my back today putting on my shoes. I may be crippled for life now. Not sure, but it feels like it.

  Is this shit why boomers are always so good damn angry? Ffs I’m 35.

  I’m starting to get it. But I’m a trooper and I’m not gonna blame it on the kids just yet. I’m just an out of shape alcoholic. What do I know?

  But also, they should get off my lawn and their raps music is too loud. And their haircuts make them look like a discount ear swab. /S

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jfc, I’m still dealing with a muscle I pulled turning over in bed. In November of last year.

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• rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Every yawn comes with its own risk of dislocating my jaw.

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  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not the only one!?

    Staying in shape has helped prevent most other silly injuries though.

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  • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My muscles are over flexible and even taking a big bite can do it. Also makes it easy to put back in place tho.

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• ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  55 here, I’m a regular runner, not a problem, even ½ marathons. However, I can just be walking to work in the most comfortable shoes, and my ankle randomly gives out can’t even move. 5 minutes later it’s back to normal heh.

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let me channel your loved ones: Bring a walking stick with you whenever you go. They make convenient collapsible ones. But better yet, just use a stick wherever you go. They’re convenient to have when encountering rough or slippery terrain since it’s like adding another limb to your body.

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• KiwiTheFlightless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sprained my back sneezing and the military medical officer insinuated that it is not possible and I was malingering… Hope that fella live a long life…

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve had the drink water too hard thing since forever - take a super big gulp, feels like it’s trying to blow your esophagus apart all the way down.

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• Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve had light vertigo for 2 months because I sat up too fast in bed. It’s fucking horrible.

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• kooks_only@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sneezed on the toilet once with my head turned. Neck was frozen for like a week after that one lol.

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• Remorhaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yep, tore my meniscus in my knee a month ago shifting my weight standing still in my kitchen

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I tore mine around age fifteen. I was kneeling in a garden helping a senior lady garden. Felt a weird pop when standing up. Didn’t even realize anything was particularly wrong until my knee stopped supporting me later in the day.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I still remember chugging a Gatorade after work one summer and feeling like someone straight jump kicked me in the chest.

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• dulcetsunshine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m in this post and I don’t like it.

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• BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I woke up from a good sleep last year, got up refreshed and ready for work. First time in years that it happened. Stood up and did a big yawn and stretch, then felt a sharp ripping feeling in my back. I tore a muscle stretching. I was 29 and it still wants to lock up today.

  Bonus; tore it a year before almost to the day by literally just rolling over in bed. I felt it happen, said “aw fuck” and went back to sleep. Road trip to Maine and Martha’s Vineyard cancelled because the pain was too intense to drive.

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• Hathaway@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Had a bag at the head of my bed, woke up, still laying down, reached over my head to grab something out of it, went to pull back “down” and tore my rotator cuff. I was 20.

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• potjandorie@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I went jogging, misstepped and then had back pains for the next 3 weeks. I walked like Quasimodo the first couple of days.

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