How is the best way to fall over?

Oh jings... Please everyone see a Dr if you ever start to feel sick after a fall, especially when you are eating. My mother had a succession of falls, and it was discovered that she had broken her back, and has osteoporosis. That was three years ago, and she has done it again this year. Luckily the medication now available is amazing, so she does recover each time, but it's hard to see how ill she looks and how thin she gets.

jings - oh dear poor you. Things can suddenly start hurting weeks after the original event, I'm sorry to have to tell you. I was innocently crossing a one way street in June and was knocked down by an (illegally) reversing car. Stitches in the back of my head and a solid blood soaked hair helmet for a week seemed like the sum total of my injuries. X Rays and a brain scan showed nothing but tissue damage. Since then I have had an aching jaw, sore, stiff neck, aching lower back on right side, and pain on the left where I have had a hip replacement previously. Not only that but I have put on over half a stone due to my inability to exercise!!

I realise that this may not cheer you up but I sincerely hope that you make a speedy recovery and will get back out there and kick a***. I certainly intend to!

How are you today Jings?

I sympathise about the knee jings and hope any swelling is minimal and not too painful,when I fell in June very un-lady like outside our local Bank (in front of customers who I knew)I just knew I couldn't stop myself it was in slow motion and all I could do was see the pavement come up to meet me with a thump !! then came the crack of the bones as my whole body weight fell against the dam shoulder but everyone was lovely and helpful and I did get one to one attention from a dishy paramedic which lightened the experience. ( still on the mend though after all this time) xx

How are you jings It can take a few days before we feel the after effects of a fall Might be time to get checked out

For all those feeling unwell as a result of a fall, get better soon.but to answer the OP 'what is the best way to fall over' it has to be what happened to me one day last week.Putting on tights ( wanted to wear a skirt to go out)
Losing balance, teetering about and eventually falling back onto the bed dramatically.A nice soft landing!

Thank you all. To be honest I am in agony! It's definitely a rib thing, and I expect we all know what they can be like. I've had it before, Ribs damage very easily don't they. I just need to wait. It will ease off soon.

Thanks for askkng. x

roses well done for being near a bed!

If in doubt I ring 111. They are very helpful and you can ask to speak to a Clinician who is a trained nurse.

I had a horrible muscle pull from putting on tights to go to a meeting. It hurt for weeks and weeks. I wanted to look smart at a meeting - definitely wasn't worth the pain.

I had to go for a bone scan after my shoulder break to check for osteoporosis. Apparently it's standard procedure up here for a 'fall from height' in the 'elderly' (sorry!) I'm only 5' tall and was barely 60. Was quite upset I fitted the parameters.

Hope you get some sleep tonight jingle , I remember turning in bed being really painful when I had a rib problem a few years ago

Thanks grannyqueenie.

Gentle {{{HUGS}}} and to all the injured peeps. Some corkers on this thread, some serious, some hilarious - but it does shake your confidence.

My Mum had a bad experience in April when after having a bath before bed time, decided to clean the loo (as one does {rolls eyes}). However, instead of getting her rubber gloves, she put on a pair of the plastic gloves you get with hair dye (as one would {rolls eyes}). The gloves offered no grip like rubber gloves and of course her hand slipped and unfortunately she fell forward bashing her head on the cistern. The result was a serious concussion, a brain scan showing the injury, a cancelled holiday because of the vertigo, some permanent memory loss, a significant loss of confidence - and she's convinced it will speed up the onset of dementia .

She's always been a scatty batty (like mother, like daughter), but things we would have laughed about before, are just not so funny any more. To say this has shaken her is an understatement. Of course, like so many of us, she tried to brush it off at first. What are we like?

Personally, I like the idea of landing on the bed best, but I wouldn't mind a ride in the Air Ambulance.

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Four years ago we were going up an escalator at Gatwick. I was 71. DH was a couple of steps above me when suddenly he lost his balance, teetered, and fell backwards ... onto me. I consequently fell back too and first instinct was to yell "stop the escalator", which someone must have done. Everything just happened so quickly. We were helped up and taken aside, and an incident report was made. They wanted to call an ambulance but I wanted to go on holiday so I had to sign a form to say I'd refused medical help. DH was feeling ok as he'd had a nice soft landing. I felt shaken but tried to make light of it. I had no apparent bad injuries so was allowed to continue with my journey. I ached like hell, but the real damage came out next day. I went to a pharmacy in Italy for advice and they said I'd cracked a couple of ribs but that there was no remedy for that. I was quite mobile, just in pain. I bared my upper leg which was a dreadful colour, but it was just bruising. As the days went on the colours changed spectacularly, with an interesting imprint of the lines from the escalator steps. Looking back I think I enjoyed my holiday but from that day I keep well away from DH on staircases of any kind.

Not at all! It's the only way.....

November of last year 2014 I slipped on a muddy area, it was a strange scenario really, because as I was going down, I knew that if I landed on my back, which was the way I was heading, I would hit my spine, which is full of arthritis, so I leaned over to my left and broke the humerous bone. It couldn't be plastered, due to the awkward area, so I was strapped up for three weeks, which was more uncomfortable than I care to mention, than the break itself. I had extremely good care from nurses coming in every day, plus my daughters help. I was told it would take a year to feel fully better, but I have been able to lay on that side for some weeks. Not the most pleasant of experiences, but better now and positivity does so help. Blessings to all. Margaret.

Running up stairs at a nightclub thinking one is on to a good thing-result-a bleeding nose-anyone know anything about nasal cartilage?!

Running upstairs at a nightclub? If only! Getting up for a wee in the night.
Remember walking round the end of the bed then was smashed over the head by a couple of iron bars... extreme head pain followed by shock. DH only refrained from phoning 999 when I told him to put the peas back in the freezer (they were Bird's Eye petit pois). To him that meant I was fine.
Spent whole next day in A & E at daughter's insistance, they were much less interested in my poor Humpty Dumpty head than in why I had keeled over. I had no recollection of falling, slipping, tripping, feeling dizzy...still don't know. Head still hurts (was a couple of weeks ago) and now ribs, which must have also hit the offending iron bars (heavy metal ornate towel rail). Tests on going. Pain on going. On balance rather have been running upstairs at a nightclub especially if I was onto a good thing

Spectacular fall at GD's sports day, ambulance had to come onto playing field, luckily GD hadn't seen me arrive and was well away from where I fell. 12 hours in A& E, and then op on quadruple fracture of upper arm. Osteoporosis diagnosed but still have no idea if I tripped or fainted. Lost a lot of confidence about going out alone, however, keep doing it! Was just trying to help out as Ds and Ddil not available that day oh dear.

Talking of falls. It's not all to do with advancing years. At my wedding reception I bounded up some stairs on my way to get changed to go on my Honeymoon.

The door at the top was a sort of fold up and down thing and some idiot had left in too much open and I hit my head on it and fell over backwards!!!

I was carried to a sofa by my father in law (whom I loathed) but I was perfectly OK and went away with my new husband for a week in London.

I don't actually know which is worse, being aware you are a public spectacle or realising nobody noticed! A few years ago my husband was on the stern steering our narrow boat and I was shoving at the bow as she was stuck on some sand, obviously I lost my footing as I went to board and disappeared under the boat! NOBODY not even DH noticed and he actually asked me what had happened when I dripped my way back onto the boat!!

marionk

Scary stuff. The maintenance of strength and balance is vital as we age both for our own safety and, in many cases, to preserve life. Many elderly people die as a result of falling over - see the Age UK booklet www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/campaigns/stop_falling_report_web.pdf?dtrk=true.
I know all too well how hard it is to prioritise exercise but for our own sakes and that of the NHS purse, surely essential.
On a lighter note, when does "falling over" morph into "having a fall"?

Sympathy to all those who have suffered a fall - but to inject some humour to me the best way to fall is to drink a bottle of wine and fall into bed