While sneezing? Honest to God, here I was last week talking about out warm weather and the extremes in temperature.... well I had to go to the Doctor the other day because of the flu, nasty stuff here at the shop. 3 guys had strepped throat... so when I had the first sign of the flu, you know that itchy throat, I went to the Doctor... he gave me Anti Biotics... well I fought off the sore throat but still got congestion and sneezing.. and while I had a sneeze fit lsat night, I swear I think I cracked a rib... the Pain is almost unbearable now when I move a certain way or when I cough.. and even worse when I sneeze.. Has anyone ever craked a rib or ripped a tendon when doing that?
I don't think there's any need to go to the doctor... I don't think there's anything you can do about it any way.. but man it hursts! I'm such a pussy!
Posted by Ken Henry (Member # 598) on :
Hi Neil. Sorry to hear you're not feeling the greatest. It sounds like you may have torn your diaphram from the wall of your ribcage during your coughing. That could become serious, and should be seen by a doctor. The possibility of cracking a rib is unlikley, since it does take a good deal of force for that to occur.
Have a doctor look at this right away. If it's serious, they will prescribe the correct treatment, but then again, it may be no more serious than mental illness.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
No harm in having yourself checked out, Neil.
I cracked a rib back in August from a coughing fit from a summer flu. Hurts like hell when you still are coughing for a few more days.
Feel better, dude! Rapid
[ December 19, 2008, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: Ray Rheaume ]
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Broke many ribs over the years in racing accidents and they hurt like hell!!!
My friend broke two ribs last year coughing! I was there.
You can't put a cast on it so you have to suck it up!
I cracked 2 ribs coming home from bowling one night. This was when I was very involved in competitive bowling and carried 4 balls. I had one double ball bag slung over my shoulder and pushed behind my back. I was carrying the other double ball bag in my hand. I knew there was sheer ice just before my porch. My wife had spread salt and I thought I reached the salted part of the sidewalk and stopped taking baby steps. Both feet went out from under me, flying forward. I went horizontal, the bag over my shoulder hit the ground first, then I landed right on the bowling balls, square on my back. I laid there for a minute trying to catch my breath. I managed to get up to start looking for the house keys. My keys in the other hand went flying up in the air and fell into the snow. Luckily it was a fresh snow and I could see the hole in the snow where the house keys went in. My wife wasn't going to be home for an hour. I was lucky that I could move enough to get in the house in the 0 degree weather. Ribs hurt like hell for about 3 weeks.
As for your sneeze, my advise would also be to see a doctor. There is a bunch of stuff you could have tore or detached if it's not broken ribs.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Thanks Guys.. it seems to be subsiding just a bit... I think I may wait ubtil Saturday and see if it's not getting any better. It does'nt hurt to Breath except a little when I take an extra Big Breath.
Tony that link is funny, just because the guy who's asking the question name is Neil.
But that's exactly whay I experienced.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
In 1992, I got the flu which turned to pneumonia within three days. I snapped a rib in my back coughing and could feel the ends grinding as I continued coughing and was hospitalized for several days because breathing was excruciating. Once I got out, I dislocated four more ribs coughing and a week or so later, tore a bunch of cartilage in my chest coughing. I was down for the count for two months (and almost permanently) and in the hospital three times. That two months was the most miserable experience of my life.
The ribs didn't heal properly and I've got scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine and back problems) as a result.
I've gotten a flu shot every year since and have gotten a pneumonia shot, but I've still managed to get the flu and pneumonia since.
Believe me, I can empathize.
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
When I sneeze...the windows rattle and the cats run and hide...but never cracked a rib that way.
Back in 1967 had a 10 foot, 4 inch diameter pipe fall on me...broke 2 ribs in my back. As a result, I can fully symphatize with you!
Hope you heal fast!
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Not from sneezing. But I've come within an inch of blacking out from LAUGHING a few times.
I fell off a truck onto a stack of oak lumber once... the corner of the stack caught me right in the ribs. It hurt so bad I think it must have broken a couple. But the doc said there was nothing to do but let them heal on their own. But if I were you, I would go to the doctor to make sure.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
one of the 1st broken bones i ever had was 3 ribs, onthe lower left side front, my father punched me with a hard right,(i was 13) never seen a doctor, but was in pain for about a month. as soon as it healed, i started learning to BOX. after that only thing i ever had broke was 3 knuckles. that had to be in a cast. i had 3 guys jump me at one time when i was 19, and suffered no broken bones....but couple of them DID)))))).
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
I have cracked my back twice.
Would you like to see how I walk!
[ December 19, 2008, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Stephen Deveau ]
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Neil, hope you get to feeling better. I've been very lucky in my life. I've been hurt quite a few times but have never broken a bone or been in the hospital... (KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!!) I've had plenty of chances though.
When I was younger, I fell about 30 foot out of a tree, off the back of a pickup that was being driven down a dirt road, off a combine (harvester) onto the concrete.. (13-14' - was walking around the edge of the bin)... have fallen off a steel building onto the concrete (12-13'), had an 8' ladder collapse while I was standing on the top step, and flipped a racing kart about 5 times down the front straight-away after getting turned into the wall at about 70 mph. All I can say is I guess all those Fruity Pebbles and milk must have paid off.... I gots strong bones.
/I'm fully expecting to break my wrist tomorrow in some kind of freak computer mouse accident.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
wow Jon... you;ve lived pretty hard for no broken bones, my first break was a wrist playing baseball, then a finger playing baseball... then separated a rib (just as painful as a break... believe me, I know) snowboarding, then broke an elbow snowboarding, then broke a rib surfing (yep, pretty darn painful, and nothing to do about it)...
...and in my freak computer mouse accident, I dozed off browsing Letterville late one night, foot fell asleep too & cramped up sideways... I woke up & decide to walk to bed, and put all my weight down on the tingling sleeping foot that I thought was placed properly on the ground, instead of cramped up sideways... man, crutches suck!
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Doug, I had some gawd-awful cuts, scrapes and bruises to show for all that..... funny thing is, I had a cousin who had broken bones different times... I always thought he was COOL and actually wished I could break a leg so I could have a cast and use crutches.....
And the snowboarding thing reminds me... I learned a hard lesson on a Black Diamond slope on the second night I ever went snow-skiing, when my confidence got way ahead of my abilities... that was about 5 years ago.
/maybe I did break stuff //and was just too dumb to realize it....
[ December 20, 2008, 12:46 AM: Message edited by: Jon Jantz ]
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i got pinched between an autocar truck(back end of it)and the front end of an R-2 BULLDOZER. the only thing touching the blade was ME....and he truck moved the little dozer backward bout 18".....before he got the thing off me. was gona pull start the dozer, with the big truck....was on a downhill slope, and the big truck had air brakes....so when i heard hin hit the brakes...YOU KNOW THAT air sound, i stepped in between to hook up the chain...only problem was not enough air pressure....when he stepped on the brake to stop it thats all there was!!!! i wounf up in the emergency room, had XRAYS from knees to shoulders...AND NOTHING BROKE...
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Jon.. is your middle name "Wild E Coyote" lol..
Yes this morning I'm feeling much better.. still sore but not nearly as bad as yesterday.
Thanks for all the concern.
Posted by Tony Ray Mattingly (Member # 469) on :
You name it, I've broke it.
Nose, fighting arm, football ribs, car fell on me back, same as above fingers, fighting hand, fighting heel, jumping out of a swing (just a kid).
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
oh yeah... forgot about the tree swing break
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Be careful here, when the ribs are bruised or a cracked rib causes pain when normally breathing, the tendancy to take shallow breaths can aid in the formation of fluid in the lungs and pnuenomia can set in.
Edited because grammer is not a realtime function.
[ December 21, 2008, 09:59 AM: Message edited by: Santo ]
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Just listening to all of you brings back painful memories. Went skiing in high school in NY State. Took a major tumble and my ski came up and jammed me between two ribs and cracked them. Nothing quite so painful as skiing back down a long ski run with broken ribs and then to sit on the bus for hours driving back to NJ.
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
Cracked a safe once...
Merry Christmas Jack
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I've broken something like twenty three bones in my life, including fracturing my neck on a trampoline. I have broken ribs a couple times playing touch football, once from a collision, and the other from landing on the ball after making a diving catch.
People say: "You must have weak bones." I reply: "There's nothing wrong with my bones, I just have a weak mind." That's because I still go out and play football and basketball at age 56.
I used to tell people I'd never broken my left hand or my right foot, but I've done both of them in the last four years. I've never gotten a fracture saving a kid from a speeding car or working, it always seems to be playing, although I did break a finger on my left hand trying to keep my grandson from falling off a rock.
I've broken my right hand and wrist seven times. We even found an old fracture there I wasn't aware of while getting X rays for a different one.
When I took up flying, some friends asked: "Why do you want to fly? You break all those bones." I answered, "Flying gives me a chance to break them all at once."
I've gone a couple of years now fracture free, which is a pretty long stretch for me, although I did severely bruise my tailbone a couple months ago sliding down a slide with one grandkid in my lap and the other on my back. My feet slipped out at the bottom and I got slammed on the hard ground with 80 pounds of grandkid on me. As I lay on the ground taking inventory of what hurt, they popped up, shouting: "Grandpa, let's do it again." For the present, I'm retired from big playground slides.
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
I never broke a rib.. but I had a buddy that kissed a Cockatoo.......
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