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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 13 May 2012, 21:03:20
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I've no idea how I did this :-[
I was doing a few minor jobs on the MV6 this evening, as it's well overdue an oil change etc. After I'd done all the work, I somehow lost my footing. It was too late to do anything, and I went over backwards, on my tarmac drive.
Unfortunately, the very lower part of my back (Eg, just above the @rse) landed with my full body weight onto my 3 tonne trolley jack. It landed on the bit where the handle goes in ::)
Here's the scary thing - I blacked out. I didn't hit my head at all, ini fact, I blacked out before I hit the deck.
Ten mins later I was laughing with a cuppa, but now I am in absolute agony, and the lightest finger touch in that area (oo oer) causes me immense pain.
I think I've broken the little bone in the rectal area - coxix or something? :-\ At the moment, I'm like a bulldog who's swallowed a wasp... :'( :D
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Sounds like you need to get your arse down the useless, inefficient qwacks/hospital
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Sounds like you need to get your arse down the useless, inefficient qwacks/hospital
The thought did cross my mind..... but then I also recalled the inefficient bit, and opened one of Claires beers instead... ::)
Getting worse tho, I think if no better in the morning I may have to see the quack, if just for reassurance..
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I've no idea how I did this :-[
I was doing a few minor jobs on the MV6 this evening, as it's well overdue an oil change etc. After I'd done all the work, I somehow lost my footing. It was too late to do anything, and I went over backwards, on my tarmac drive.
Unfortunately, the very lower part of my back (Eg, just above the @rse) landed with my full body weight onto my 3 tonne trolley jack. It landed on the bit where the handle goes in ::)
Here's the scary thing - I blacked out. I didn't hit my head at all, ini fact, I blacked out before I hit the deck.
Ten mins later I was laughing with a cuppa, but now I am in absolute agony, and the lightest finger touch in that area (oo oer) causes me immense pain.
I think I've broken the little bone in the rectal area - coxix or something? :-\ At the moment, I'm like a bulldog who's swallowed a wasp... :'( :D
Get yourself to A&E for an X-ray ... there are several possibilities from what you describe ... yes it might be the 4 Cocyx bones .. (also known as the "tail bone") which while painful is not serious.. but equally it could be a cracked pelvis which would be very bad news over a long period if left untreated .. :(
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5 hrs ago you were under my car.....now you work on your own car and slip...i think a/e too just to be safe ..xray job
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Yes coxix, landed on that a few times, break me does that hurt.
Get it checked IMO James. :)
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James just told SWMBO whats happened to you. She's a nurse
she says As you blacked out before hitting ground you need to get yourself checked NOW down at A&E
As Entwood says they will also check your back area for damage .
Sooner the better mate is what she's saying :-\ :-\ :-\ She suggests you don't try to drive there yourself ::) ::)
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Yes coxix, landed on that a few times, break me does that hurt.
Get it checked IMO James. :)
That's the badger! Cheers mate, I will do! :y
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been a long time since being a paramedic in the LAS BUT if i attended a call where some one had said they blacked out before hitting the floor you would be taken to hospital.. get yourself checked out TONIGHT...and get some one to take you DO NOT DRIVE
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Cheers guys. Just texted the old man in law, see if he'll run me in...
:y
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If the jack went in above your arse that would suggest too high for the cocyx to me, and potentially much more serious. Don't **** about with your back (like TB ;)), get yourself off down the quacks ASAP for a referral for an X-ray. Should probably have taken yourself to A&E at the time!
[edit] Ah, with the power of replies before my post .. I see you're already off to A&E. Good man :y
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(like TB ;))
Its only pain, it goes away eventually for a while
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(like TB ;))
Its only pain, it goes away eventually for a while
Last time i had serious pain, a few years ago......i went to A&E, i asked for a painkiller.....they gave me morphine......did a few checks and sent me home, saying see your GP.....
I did see my GP who prescribed me painkillers....few days later i was back at my GP complaining the painkillers he'd prescribed wernt touching the pain......he asked what they'd given me at A&E, when i said morphine, he went off his head.....saying they dish out morphine like sweets....it works but its overkill....so he gave me another prescription.....saying it was the strongest he could prescribe, but no other option as my body was now use to morphine.....
Box of 500 was the prescription.......got about 400 left......wanna buy some ;D ;D.
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Sounds like quite a major small accident. Hope its nothing serious :y
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
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Better to be safe than sorry and get yourself checked out .... sounds painfull :o
Hopefully everything will be ok though :y
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
But don't take them unless they are prescribed for you. . some possible serious side effects I'm told :o :o :o :o
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I think the fact you blacked out is the bit to worry about.... :( Hope you got/getting checked out James! ???
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go and get it checked james mate you dont wont to wake in the mornin and cant move that happent to me years ago and i said the same if its not better by the morning and then i cant even get out off bed :y :y
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Few things to consider.
1. If you were falling backwards and blacked out (prior to hitting the deck), the likelyhood of you hitting your head is nearly 100%. Unless you were suspended on something and that held your head from contact with the ground. Or there was someone around to support your head?
2. How long were you out for? did anyone see this happen?
3. Fractured coccyx would usually mean you cant sit on it. Sounds like something else might be broken, certainly worth x-raying to rule out a fracture.
Hope it turns out to be just soft tissue injury with no lasting damage.
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Many thanks to everyone for a reply and good wishes.
I will update this with info tomorrow. Shattered now. Am home and I will live, though :y
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Sorry to hear about your fall james , hope you are ok and have had it checked out . Like the others said id be concerned about it esp the blackout bit . Take it easy ;)
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James It sounds like you have being over doing it again.
Get you back xrayed it happened to me over 20 years ago. A chair slipped(pulled) away from me when I was sitting down and I actualy snapped my coccyx. Even now i cannot sit on a hard surface for long before it starts to hurt again.
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All the best James :y
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When you said you'd had a small accident, I thought you'd coughed and **** yourself.
Seriously though, get yourself checked out matey, blackouts are not funny.
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Are you back from the hospital yet? :y
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
tramadol ARE not the best pain killer as they mess with your head,they are addictive,and they are know too cause drowsiness..trust me i know...not addicted but do use them..should not be taken unless prescibed as they are a controlled drug... :y
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Really sorry to hear this James, I hope it has turned out to be nothing too serious & you are soon 100% again! :y
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James.. how are you??
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James.. how are you??
Actually feeling quite a bit better this afternoon mate, thank you :y
I felt quite nausious earlier, but am not feeling too bad now.
Just been told to take it easy and don't overdo things while it heals :y
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So what was the official word on what you managed to do to yourself?
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So what was the official word on what you managed to do to yourself?
...and what caused the blackout? James that would seem to be more worrying. :y
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
tramadol ARE not the best pain killer as they mess with your head,they are addictive,and they are know too cause drowsiness..trust me i know...not addicted but do use them..should not be taken unless prescibed as they are a controlled drug... :y
I've not had any side effects from them at all but don't advise them to anyone who hasn't been prescribed them... SWMBO didn't get on well with them when she was on them ;)
Next step for me, according to the GP, is Morphine prescriptions which I really want to try and stay away from
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(like TB ;))
Its only pain, it goes away eventually for a while
I've spent an hour with the Osteopath tonight (not a million miles from you TB!) who's been busy sorting me out from a lifetime of 'it's only pain, it'll go away', 'I take no notice', 'I don't care how much pain i'm in, I will ride my horse' etc etc etc
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I've no idea how I did this :-[
I was doing a few minor jobs on the MV6 this evening, as it's well overdue an oil change etc. After I'd done all the work, I somehow lost my footing. It was too late to do anything, and I went over backwards, on my tarmac drive.
Unfortunately, the very lower part of my back (Eg, just above the @rse) landed with my full body weight onto my 3 tonne trolley jack. It landed on the bit where the handle goes in ::)
Here's the scary thing - I blacked out. I didn't hit my head at all, ini fact, I blacked out before I hit the deck.
Ten mins later I was laughing with a cuppa, but now I am in absolute agony, and the lightest finger touch in that area (oo oer) causes me immense pain.
I think I've broken the little bone in the rectal area - coxix or something? :-\ At the moment, I'm like a bulldog who's swallowed a wasp... :'( :D
I would be more concerned about this.........rather than my arse, James. Check it out. :y
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Could well be that memory is lost from a few seconds before hitting the deck and blacking out,so its remembered as blacking out before hitting the deck.Quite common ime.
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Could well be that memory is lost from a few seconds before hitting the deck and blacking out,so its remembered as blacking out before hitting the deck.Quite common ime.
exactly what I Was told :)
The quack also asked me when I last ate anything. "ummmmm" :-[
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
tramadol ARE not the best pain killer as they mess with your head,they are addictive,and they are know too cause drowsiness..trust me i know...not addicted but do use them..should not be taken unless prescibed as they are a controlled drug... :y
I've not had any side effects from them at all but don't advise them to anyone who hasn't been prescribed them... SWMBO didn't get on well with them when she was on them ;)
Next step for me, according to the GP, is Morphine prescriptions which I really want to try and stay away from
i have not either apart from if i take 2 they will send me too sleep...BUT i am told by my doc tramadol can be sold on the black market as a reacreational drug (what ever that means!!!)
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tremadol are the best pain killer....i no....but forget sleep...
tramadol ARE not the best pain killer as they mess with your head,they are addictive,and they are know too cause drowsiness..trust me i know...not addicted but do use them..should not be taken unless prescibed as they are a controlled drug... :y
I've not had any side effects from them at all but don't advise them to anyone who hasn't been prescribed them... SWMBO didn't get on well with them when she was on them ;)
Next step for me, according to the GP, is Morphine prescriptions which I really want to try and stay away from
i have not either apart from if i take 2 they will send me too sleep...BUT i am told by my doc tramadol can be sold on the black market as a reacreational drug (what ever that means!!!)
Nope, don't even make me sleepy unfortunately. Was on 8 a day but now down to 2 in the morning, 2 at night just to take the worst of the pain off ;)
Tramadol makes SWMBO a bit spaced out ::)
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no one asked how the jack is
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Could well be that memory is lost from a few seconds before hitting the deck and blacking out,so its remembered as blacking out before hitting the deck.Quite common ime.
exactly what I Was told :)
The quack also asked me when I last ate anything. "ummmmm" :-[
Had a diabeties test?
As for painkillers, you're all whimps. A bit of pain never hurt anyone ;)