List your annoying injuries.

Had my thumb nail bent back playing American Football about 3 weeks ago! I always tape my finger nails but the one time I didn't that happened! Nearly wet myself when it happened jeez it was painful.

Finally pulled the nail of yesterday.

Tc
 
I was playing with one of those springy trouser hangers a while back, pushing in and out as fast as I could.

Slipped, the hanger flew up into the air and the hook got caught in the bottom of my eyelid, scratching my eyeball.

Had to go to A&E because I couldn't see too well (just watering loads really) and had to explain how I had managed to hang a hanger off my eyelid...
 
My hand, broke it while having a fight with a postbox when i was completely steaming.

Needless to say, it wasn't my finest moment.
 
Got a slipped disc at the moment - on the waiting list for a bit of keyhole surgery to shave the disc down in the next few weeks.

Also had a mallet deformation of the finger like th OP. Caused by a cut across the top of my 2nd finger on left hand with a piece of glass. Had the cut sewn up at casualty, then found out my tendons were severed when the bandage came off. It straightened after wearing the mallet splint for 3 months, but is still a bit weak 10 years on.
 
bottletop said:
Also had a mallet deformation of the finger like th OP. Caused by a cut across the top of my 2nd finger on left hand with a piece of glass. Had the cut sewn up at casualty, then found out my tendons were severed when the bandage came off. It straightened after wearing the mallet splint for 3 months, but is still a bit weak 10 years on.
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Nasty. Funny you should mention it but when I was a teenager I went through the tendon on my little finger with a knife (just don't even ask :D). That took well over a year before my little finger would work properly and it's still not as strong as it used to be :eek:
 
Disclocated shoulder blades, cushed jaw...

the shoulder blades is a often thing, lost count of how many times i have dislocated them :(

damn track days lol

the jaw was a one off, came off the bike, went face first into a concrete pillar, helmet caved in at the chin and crushed my jaw

ags
 
Broken thumb on second day whilst Snowboarding in Canada earlier this year. I carried on snowboarding for the rest of the two weeks even though I was advised not too, and I got lucky (i.e. didn't land on it again).

Hurt like a mother for the next 8 weeks and I couldn't put any pressure on it (made simply everyday tasks difficult. Opening a can, unlocking a door, etc etc)
 
Jonny69 said:
Nasty. Funny you should mention it but when I was a teenager I went through the tendon on my little finger with a knife (just don't even ask :D). That took well over a year before my little finger would work properly and it's still not as strong as it used to be :eek:
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Reminds me of the time i almost killed myself with by cutting my thumb with a knife. Cut straight down to the bone, managed to hit a major artery, panicked at the sight of soooo much blood, ran into the kitchen and noobishly ran water over the wound, raised heart rate + water meant more blood. I passed out and had a seizure, would have bled to death if i hadnt knocked over the vacuum cleaner and alerted my dad :)
 
was cooking sausages on the stove, and had a plastic handled spoon in the frying pan, had a ceramic stove, so you can't see which one is on..

after about 5 minutes of no sausage cooking, I went to investigate, picked up the spoon and it was scolding hot

the handle had been above the other hob (accidentally turned the wrong one on)


had a boiling hot plastic spoon stuck to my hand, my housemate had to stamp it off :(

that bloody killed, had a massive glass of vodka, taped 4x ice blocks to my hand and wrapped in a towel then went to bed :(

took about a year to properly heal
 
Nothing out of the normal with my injury, just a very badly sprained ankle recently. Did it as I tried to get on to the bus to come to work. Must admit I haven't felt pain like it since I was in my pre-teens. Needed three weeks off work for it to heal sufficiently so I could return to work. Second day back now. The Doc said I was lucky not to have broken it the way I did it. Seems it was worse than I first realized. Just takes so long to heal, ligaments, tendons etc.
Still, people get much, much worse.
 
I've cracked/fractured 4 of my toes playing rugby (and a further 2 from a rather nasty incident involving a wet-tiled floor, a full-on slip and a door-frame about 18 inches away from the where the slip took place - my foot sprayed blood six feet!). The worst thing is that every now and then, while I'm just walking down the street, either one of my middle toes can just "click" and then I'm in agony for hours any time I put my foot on the floor.
 
I got tennis elbow when I used to play years ago. It was my fault for using bad technique with the wrong racket, but every now and then it wont straigthen out naturally and I have to force it straight until something gives in my elbow. Normally very painful but its OK after that :p

I did go to the hospital when it first went in my arm (I stretched for the ball and the pain was immense) and after waiting 4+ hours, I stepped into a tiny cubicle and the male nurse said "Squeeze my finger" I did and then he said "Its OK, go home and take paracetamol" and that was that.

It occasionally wakes me at night with a deep cold ache running from my elbow, down the side of my forearm to my little finger. Its like a deep, icy ache and feels like the nerve is numb.

Also over the last 6 months I've noticed I've developed a strange back problem. Sometimes when I wake and I bend over on bed to put some footwear on, as I lift up and straighten out, I get this really terrible pain in my lumbar back. Litrally paralyses me for a few seconds and I've got to be careful for about 15 minutes.

I feel like a crippled old man sometimes and I'm only 24 :p
 
Shattered my toe during Karate. Took a while to be able to walk properly once the cast was off and even longer to run. The joint was completely fubar'ed and it occaisonally aches for no reason, but most annoying thing is that I can't bend it anymore.
 
Years of using a keyboard and mouse at work, and even more at home playing games. Bad posture. Bad wrist position with loads of weight on the wrist. Completely ignored all the warning aches and pains.

Result...

Right wrist completely knackered so using left hand for mouse now (very carefully - I've run out of hands after this one is used up). Anti-inflammatories tablets three times daily for life otherwise hand and wrist weak, frozen and unusable after about a week.
 
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