Nasty fall - muscle remedies

[KyleW]

Shit, I'm getting old. There was a time when I took some big hits during sports, or falls, and I shook that shit off.

A few days ago I was running through the one room in our home that has a hard wood floor, our kitchen. And i was in socks and took a spill while turning and crashed on my side pretty damn hard.

I have never had back / muscle issues of any significance.

But this shit is agony. Especially getting up and down from a rested position. Or reaching for anything. It is not my back. It is my right hand side/shoulder and on my front at the bottom of the rib cage.

Advil only does so much. I am seeing my doctor finally tomorrow. I figured after 5 days I'd be healed okay. And 2 days ago I felt less discomfort. But now it's back to being bad.

They RX'd me some muscle relaxers that i picked up today but so far haven't helped.

He'll probably have me go for x-rays. I know I didn't break a rib. At most I'd say I have a deep tissue bruises, muscle pulls. That type of stuff.


What I'm doing for it at the moment is advil, heating pad, rest and now muscle relaxers.

Incidentally, it is too painful to lay down in most positions. At best I can lay on my left side, but not for terribly long. I have been sleeping sitting up a lot. With my back against a reading pillow in the bed. But I'm not getting much sleep, too much discomfort.


What have you guys found to be the best solutions for these types of injuries.

 

[chillywilly2]

Tie her down so you don't have to chase her around the house

 

[rosco rathbone]

Vikes.

 

[Beco]

Take an Alieve, and stop bitching.....good lord

 

[KyleW]

Vikes.

I should have noted that I have a high tolerance to everything. Alcohol to weed to prescription meds.

He may prescribe me vikes tomorrow for the short term pain. And he went straight to soma for the muscle relaxers. Which are the stronger ones.

Vikes, even at norco str, will ease the pain, but not eliminate it. That's good enough though.

But beyond fighting the pain.

I'd like to know a faster way to heal this. I've been diabetic for years, but with a 5.8 A1C i have excellent sugar numbers. So I do heal more slowly when it comes to cuts and stuff.

But apart from the muscle relaxers, advil, heating pad, and probably norcos, I want something to help me just combat the duration of this. I don't like tylenol, and I don't want to stay on certain pain killers for an extended time. Christmas is in less than a week.

 

[pink]

I was going to say Vicodin. Rosco beat me to it.


Muscle relaxers should help a little bit, I'm really surprised they didn't. My Dr prescribed me "Lidoderm" patches for pain, for my back. They stick to your skin.



Now I'm worried about you.

 

[Tryharder62]

Just for a stop gap to assist there is a product called biofreeze. I get it at the chiropractor but I don't know if you can get it else where. It really helps along with the pain relievers until you get some help from the doctor. Sorry to hear this.

 

[CHNOPS]

Shoes.

 

[KyleW]

Shoes.

That's the helpful post-fall advice my wife gave me. Unless you have a time machine handy, your advice sucks for this fall. SUCKS.

 

[naughtycakes]

Traumeel - it's an anti-inflammatory ointment you can get at Whole Foods or GMC. I just started physical therapy for my arm - I took a nasty spill off my bike a month ago - and they gave me a free sample so I went out and bought some today.

Icing is good for the inflammation while heat is good to relax the muscles. I didn't take any vikes or prescription medicine, but I was taking 4 ibuprofen about every 5 hours. It helped with the pain but it was more for its anti-inflammatory properties.

Drink lots of water, eat lots of protein.

Sleeping is the absolute worse! A month later, it still sucks. I wake up in pain every night and in the morning I feel like somebody beat me. Not much you can do about it, try using pillows to prop yourself up in different positions until you find the most tolerable.

Here's what I looked like after my spill

 

[KyleW]

Traumeel - it's an anti-inflammatory ointment you can get at Whole Foods or GMC. I just started physical therapy for my arm - I took a nasty spill off my bike a month ago - and they gave me a free sample so I went out and bought some today.

Icing is good for the inflammation while heat is good to relax the muscles. I didn't take any vikes or prescription medicine, but I was taking 4 ibuprofen about every 5 hours. It helped with the pain but it was more for its anti-inflammatory properties.

Drink lots of water, eat lots of protein.

Sleeping is the absolute worse! A month later, it still sucks. I wake up in pain every night and in the morning I feel like somebody beat me. Not much you can do about it, try using pillows to prop yourself up in different positions until you find the most tolerable.

Here's what I looked like after my spill

I'll look into that. I'm hoping this is very short term. Normally I'd fall and be fine the next day if not sooner. 5 days is too long. I don't want to be hurting still in 5 more.

I find that I feel a little better by day's end. Then I try to sleep and I wake up feeling worse and have to spend the day getting back to where I was before.

 

[Sean]

I just wanted to point and laugh. You're welcome.

 

[KyleW]

I just wanted to point and laugh. You're welcome.

Useful as always byron

 

[Sean]

Useful as always byron

Now that's just mean.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Any bruising in the rib cage area hurts like hell. And it takes a comparatively long time to heel. I don't know how athletes play with cracked ribs.

I'm with Naughtycakes on the ice. Both heat and ice stimulate blood flow. Heat is better for relaxing the muscle, but it does nothing for inflammation except tending to make it worse. Ice prevents swelling and reduces inflammation.

Good luck.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

pop a perc.


now if you smoke a blunt an pop a merc, you'll be straight all night.

 

[oggbashan]

My wife fell over on Friday evening.

She too has pain in her shoulder and arm. An X-ray revealed that she had cracked, not broken, her humerus just below the joint with her shoulder.

Her arm is in a sling and it will take six weeks to two months before she can use that arm effectively.

Muscle remedies won't work if you have cracked a bone.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wings]

You may need to be wrapping your torso. You probably did crack something and that sucks.

 

[islandman]

You may need to be wrapping your torso. You probably did crack something and that sucks.

This.

I've cracked ribs on multiple occasions and wrapping is the only thing that alleviates the pain.

Not breathing also helps, but it's not a long-term solution.

 

[LKCalvin]

alternate between hot and cold, 15 to 20 minutes at a time. like heating pad for 15 minutes, stretch, 15 minutes of ice pack.

aspercreme works well, seems to work best for me cause of the aspirin in it.

stretching, lots of water, and time. who knows, you may have cracked something. hope not.

ibprofen or naprosyn for the swelling, they thin the blood so dont go over 800 mg of ibprofen, or 1000 mg of naprosyn in 24 hours.

caffeine, natural and helps dilate blood vessels so medicines and things can more easily get where they need to. heat also helps with this but too much heat is a bad thing.

feel better

 

[Exquisition]

Shit, I'm getting old. There was a time when I took some big hits during sports, or falls, and I shook that shit off.

A few days ago I was running through the one room in our home that has a hard wood floor, our kitchen. And i was in socks and took a spill while turning and crashed on my side pretty damn hard.

I have never had back / muscle issues of any significance.

But this shit is agony. Especially getting up and down from a rested position. Or reaching for anything. It is not my back. It is my right hand side/shoulder and on my front at the bottom of the rib cage.

Advil only does so much. I am seeing my doctor finally tomorrow. I figured after 5 days I'd be healed okay. And 2 days ago I felt less discomfort. But now it's back to being bad.

They RX'd me some muscle relaxers that i picked up today but so far haven't helped.

He'll probably have me go for x-rays. I know I didn't break a rib. At most I'd say I have a deep tissue bruises, muscle pulls. That type of stuff.


What I'm doing for it at the moment is advil, heating pad, rest and now muscle relaxers.

Incidentally, it is too painful to lay down in most positions. At best I can lay on my left side, but not for terribly long. I have been sleeping sitting up a lot. With my back against a reading pillow in the bed. But I'm not getting much sleep, too much discomfort.


What have you guys found to be the best solutions for these types of injuries.

This: http://www.bakewellsoap.co.uk/buy_after_exercise_muscle_rub_uk.html has been sweeping everything before it over here.

It's good stuff for aches and pains.

Not sure if they supply the US though.

 

[zipman]

I hate to say it but it sounds like there is something more serious going on than a few sore muscles.

 

[Image]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

 

[Beco]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

hahah!