Ailments

biko

Ok, I'm not a spring chicken anymore but my fecking back is killing me at the moment, twisted it at hurling 4 weeks ago and still get lumbar pains when I move too quickly. Also I twisted my ankle a while back and it still hurts a bit.
Arrg, to be 17 and invincible again.

projectmayhem

since i can remember i've had a dodgy back (i'm waiting for those bionic spines...) and two absolutely god awful knees... and i'm 22!

be glad you can twist your back!

Black Swan

No permanent ailments, but I can identify with your pain sometimes... I practice taekwondo.

biko

Yeah, feels like a long time since there wasn't a pain here or there.
Actually, can't remember when I last felt 100% and ready to take on anyone or anything. 5 years?

Crucifix

My poor aching back.
I'm bringing my laptop back and forth between home and work these days, and it weighs a bloody ton. Makes me feel like a schoolkid with a bag full of books again. Everyday I get home, I lie down on the floor to the sound of a few cracks.

Terry

As a clumsy teenager, I had many accidents while cycling. As a result, my knees are fúcked.
Both ankles are dodgy too. Damn drink related falls.

AlmightyCushion

Terry wrote:

Damn drink related falls.

They'll be the death of me someday.

John Mason

i fractured my wrist in Berlin 4 years ago and it still hurts, i cant lift anything heavy and sometimes for no reason it aches (a sign its going to rain LOL)

I torn ligament in my ankle about 6 years ago and it has never been right since especially since i done it again on good friday only just about to get back in the heels

and i have a strange whiplash injury that i have no idea where it came from, have never been in an accident but about 3 times a year, i need physo on it. (probably a drink related fall)

my mum laughs at me because i am such a crock, she is 52 and doesnt have ailments at all - oh, i am only 32

humanji

biko wrote:

Ok, I'm not a spring chicken anymore but my fecking back is killing me at the moment, twisted it at hurling 4 weeks ago and still get lumbar pains when I move too quickly. Also I twisted my ankle a while back and it still hurts a bit.
Arrg, to be 17 and invincible again.

Is it ok to point out the irony of Biko posted in the wrong forum? Away to Fitness, or Sports with ya!

Seriously though, I know how you feel. I've just started getting myself fit again and just don't know how I could've been so active when I was younger. I get tired walking up stairs

Dord

I've got a dodgy ankle from when I got hit by a car a few years ago. Its only started acting up again recently.

The Hill Billy

I've two dodgy knees (left one a car crash, right one a motorbike crash).
I've a creaky neck - too stressed out.
A permanently broken bone in my right wrist from throwing a dig (12 years ago last weekend) protecting myself from an over-zealous, anti-Irish pub bouncer in En-ger-land.



If I was a horse...

biko

humanji wrote:

Is it ok to point out the irony of Biko posted in the wrong forum? Away to Fitness, or Sports with ya!

Seriously though, I know how you feel. I've just started getting myself fit again and just don't know how I could've been so active when I was younger. I get tired walking up stairs

Indeed Well, intention of thread was general complaints. You know like when you're in the pub and go on about an old sports injury. Suddenly half the pub join in on how this and that is wrong with them. "Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone" type stuff.

nesf

Back and jaw give me trouble from doing tae kwon do when I was young (got hit too many times). Knees are a bit dodgy at times but don't give me too much trouble.

tallus

Both knees are fucced as a result of a motorcycle accident. Still have metal in the left femur and was told to expect plastic kneecaps in teh future.

brianthebard

My back hasn't felt sore in months, I like to think its cause of weightlifting. Also sitting up straight in my chair is important too!

KTRIC

joe robot wrote:

I've got a dodgy ankle from when I got hit by a car a few years ago. Its only started acting up again recently.

Mmm, who's fault was that then ?? :rolleyes:


At least my dodgy leg is a result of a bike crash when I was 20. It only really acts up when it gets cold out. I broke my lower leg in 3 places and tore loads of the ligiments (sp ?). The surgeon wanted to cut my leg off but me being a matcho 20 year I told him to STFU and put a band aid on it instead

biko

I think back problems are in majority at the moment *groans getting up*

January

Broke my leg years ago playing "soccer", I use the term loosely because we were only mucking about. Still have two metal screws in my tibia and fibula... and it hurts on occasion cos the muscle has shortened.

Nehpets

My right toes/foot hurt because I kicked the dishwasher by mistake, that was 2 days ago. My legs are also sore

arybvtcw0eolkf

Arthritis in four discs, all my fingers and right knee. All put down to Martial Arts & weight training over the few many, many years.

Will I slow down or give up?.. I will 'in me nelly. I'll be fighting again on the 16th of this mouth please god.

mikemac

In 6 years of secondary school, I never missed a day sick.

And working full-time for 3years and have never missed a day sick.
Average sick leave in the Civil Service is 10.4 days per year......shower of wasters

Wertz

Yeah did something semi-serious to my back a few months ago whilst stretching under a car bonnet...felt like an elastic band snapping to one side of my spine, was laid up for a few days by that and then the same thing went last week in work whilst I was lifting something heavy. I dunno if I've slipped a disc or merely strained/sprained a ligament or tendon, but it hurts like hell when it goes and I imagine as I get older, it'll take a lot less to agitate this weakness.

Your health is definitely your wealthg.

CathyMoran

micmclo wrote:

In 6 years of secondary school, I never missed a day sick.

And working full-time for 3years and have never missed a day sick.
Average sick leave in the Civil Service is 10.4 days per year......shower of wasters

I did not take any time off until last year and am in the Civil Service even though I am diabetic and have had problems with my wisdom teeth. The average includes people like myself who have been off sick for genuine reasons (in my case oesophageal cancer), trust me I would love to be back in work but it looks like I will not be back until October at the earliest (meaning that I will have taken a year of sick leave), appologies for being serious for a moment.

In terms of ailments I am recovering from oesophageal cancer at the moment.

sioda

Suffer from a dodgy knee due to slippy pool side and fire door corner.

Slight RSI from using the computer and not liking the fact I can make my neck crack by rocking my head

The_Conductor

micmclo wrote:

In 6 years of secondary school, I never missed a day sick.

And working full-time for 3years and have never missed a day sick.
Average sick leave in the Civil Service is 10.4 days per year......shower of wasters

In the civil service a person must be certified sick by a GP if absent for over 2 days- and personnel officers reserve the right to have a person examined by the CMO (Chief Medical Officer). If a civil servant is absent on either a Friday or a Monday- the Saturday and Sunday are also counted, so their one working day absence is counted as 3 days sick leave.

If you compare this with the private sector- a day's absence on a Friday or a Monday is a single day's leave- so in theory your 10.4 days leave could in actual fact be absent from the office for 3.5 working days in the private sector.

Further, 64% of the civil service are women, and 62% over the age of 45. Demographically they could be expected to be of worse health than the average person in their mid twenties.

You are being very unfair calling them a shower of wasters.......

Setun

I can't straighten my left arm, and my wrist can only twist about 10 degrees. And fragments have broken off in my elbow and are growing apparently because the fluid surrounding them is nutritious??? So they have to be taken out soon.

/End moan.