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[jufonuk]

In the most mundane idiotic way. Running for a bus, I stepped off the pavement into the road (started to try and run, in flat trainers not running shoes)
and felt a massive fuck off crack In my Achilles heal. Had to hobble to the bus stop.
After Sitting in the emergency room for an hour and a half the doctor diagnosed it and said I need surgery.

I've had surgery (I tried ketamine, which was used to lightly sedate me and had my lower half of my body numbed) now I'm recovering at home and can't get to sleep. My leg hurts like fuck and I can't find a comfy position, Feeling sorry for myself also well more like I'm an idiot trying to run for the bus in the first place when the next one would have been 20mins after.

Anyone else experience this ? Any advice ?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Get well soon, friend...

I had a Grade III sprain a while back. And I still went to school.

And two weeks later, I started exercising again.

 

[jason10mm]

Daaaaamn, that sucks. I'm half crippled with bilateral Achilles tendonitis and a full tear is my greatest fear,

 

[Celcius]

Sorry to hear that OP. How old are you?

 

[jufonuk]

Sorry to hear that OP. How old are you?

47

 

[calistan]

Ouch! Welcome to old age and random injuries, perhaps.

A couple of years ago there were some kids who thought it was funny to throw their empty plastic bottles at my front door on their way home from school.

Pissed me off, so I waited for them one day and as soon as I heard the sound, I rushed out to confront them. Saw two kids running off iin a panic, plus a slow one who looked terrified and ready to beg for mercy.

What he didn't know was that in the three fast steps I'd made to burst out on them, something had popped in my right calf, my leg was filled with a sickening pain, and there was no way I could even move, let alone chase the little bastards.

Still, never saw them again, they picked a different route home after that.

 

[Beretta]

Oof, sorry to hear. Never had that injury, I've had others like my hip going out and my lower back getting a random piercing pain a few times as I'm walking. That one hasn't happened in a while now but I'm sure upon typing this it will make its dramatic return.

I guess you can look at the bright side….I've seen people running across traffic for buses and coming within inches of their life so at least you didn't nearly die.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

In the most mundane idiotic way. Running for a bus, I stepped off the pavement into the road (started to try and run, in flat trainers not running shoes)
and felt a massive fuck off crack In my Achilles heal. Had to hobble to the bus stop.

As an Avid Reading Horse I have deciphered that this is not a sentence written in American, given my extensive knowledge of words.

Good luck with your injury, doesn't sound pleasant.

 

[AJUMP23]

Go to a doctor. Get treated you will need a boot or something. Probably surgery.

 

[mitch1971]

Went to the shop a good 6 months or so ago for some sweets for my sisters kids. Walked out of the shop and my foot hit an uneven piece of paving on the floor and my ankle went at right angles. By the time I'd walked home my ankle was blown up like a balloon. To sooth the pain I murdered the kids and ate all the sweets myself.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Blow on it.

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[jufonuk]

Go to a doctor. Get treated you will need a boot or something. Probably surgery.

I've had surgery

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Stretching in the morning is important.

 

[Ozzie666]

OP, is it true the initial incident is rather painless? Most people describe a 'pop' sound. I've never known anyone to tear one.

 

[poodaddy]

I snapped my right foot in half in the Army while training for Airborne School. That was three repair surgeries including hardware insertion and removal, and I'm now missing a good bit of the muscle in my right foot, and of course permanent nerve damage is a given, plus early arthritis in the foot for life, so it's convenient that I always know if it's wet and cold out before even sticking one foot out from the blankets every morning. Had a shoulder repair surgery on my left shoulder after it was tore up from years of idiotic form with my lifts and shitty volume and frequency management in my training program. More recently, I broke my left hand two years ago while playing at Urban Air, (trampoline Park), with my daughter while I was climbing this obstacle course thing and had a bit of an accident. Sucks, as now my fuckin wedding ring doesn't even fit my finger anymore as my finger and knuckle changed shape after healing from the break, so I have to wear this little silicone one in its stead.

I'm a goofy ass accident prone bitch of a dude.

 

[poodaddy]

OP, is it true the initial incident is rather painless? Most people describe a 'pop' sound. I've never known anyone to tear one.

I can answer this though I know the question wasn't directed towards me.

In my experience, there's no overt sharp pain at first when you break a smaller bone, more shock and the realization that you fucked up, and the pain comes with the swelling which is fairly immediate, I mean within that first minute it'll start swelling. Big bones, the pain is immediate, shock inducing, traumatic, and mind shattering. I'm not exaggerating, it is absolutely beyond horrible when you break multiple bones at once or snap a tendon, I mean that's the kind of pain that alters future life decisions.

That's my two cents, and worth probably about as much, but there ya go.