Today's Injuries

[Mountain Goatess]

Sweet Baby Jesus, you look like you went ten rounds with JohnM32. Hope you are feeling better soon.

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[Hes]

Holy moly, that looks sore. Hope you recover soon.

Came off the bike on Otley Chevin today, knocked out for 30 secs or so after my head smashed into a rock and by face slowed me down by scraping along the floor. Ambulance and hospital job, can't tell you how much it stings right now.

Paramedics wanted to chop my FRA tee off to look at my shoulder joint, which thankfully wasn't dislocated in the end- No way Jose! just yank up the sleeve, i've got full range of movement.

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[mr brightside]

Thanks for the messages. I look a right mess today, all the scrapes have gone crusty and yellow and i've got two black eyes instead of one! Whenever i go to sleep my eye weeps and welds itself shut which is a pain in the aris; mind you, the paramedics removed an awful lot of grit from it. This was me yesterday before i set off on a mission to try and get some industrial strength drugs for the pain.

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Question: Do any of you medically minded people know why i have a big area of blood in the white of my eye?

[stevefoster]

Question: Do any of you medically minded people know why i have a big area of blood in the white of my eye?

Not a doctor but could be burst blood vessels in eye, is your vision ok?

[mr brightside]

Not a doctor but could be burst blood vessels in eye, is your vision ok?

Gets better every day, almost 100% today. I was thinking that maybe when i hit the rock, my eye socket flexed enough to actually collide with my eye; or that my eye had enough momentum to collide with my bone structure. Bit of both maybe.

[Rob Furness]

Looking rough mate, superficial damage though by the look of it. You'll be right as rain in no time. Co-codamol are good for pain if you're still suffering, I think you can get them in the chemist

[Mike T]

Thanks for the messages. I look a right mess today, all the scrapes have gone crusty and yellow and i've got two black eyes instead of one! Whenever i go to sleep my eye weeps and welds itself shut which is a pain in the aris; mind you, the paramedics removed an awful lot of grit from it. This was me yesterday before i set off on a mission to try and get some industrial strength drugs for the pain.

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Question: Do any of you medically minded people know why i have a big area of blood in the white of my eye?

Trauma to the eyeball can cause a bleed into the white of the eye - a so called subconjunctival haemorrhage. They would have had a good look at your eye at the hospital. I assume your vision is OK and your pupil unaffected - the same size as the other one and no blood visible within the coloured bit - and it responds to light by shrinking. The commonest cause of this is in fact spontaneous - probably from the eye being rubbed in sleep. In itself it is of no consequence but is pretty scary to look at. See your GP if there is concern.

[mr brightside]

Looking rough mate, superficial damage though by the look of it. You'll be right as rain in no time. Co-codamol are good for pain if you're still suffering, I think you can get them in the chemist

I've got some Diclofenac but the pain is still pretty raw!

Trauma to the eyeball can cause a bleed into the white of the eye - a so called subconjunctival haemorrhage. They would have had a good look at your eye at the hospital. I assume your vision is OK and your pupil unaffected - the same size as the other one and no blood visible within the coloured bit - and it responds to light by shrinking. The commonest cause of this is in fact spontaneous - probably from the eye being rubbed in sleep. In itself it is of no consequence but is pretty scary to look at. See your GP if there is concern.

Thanks Mike. I'm confident i didn't rub my eye during sleep on night 1, it was weeping and stuck shut.

[shaunaneto]

managed to do my back in picking up an empty bowl of cereal from the coffee table yesterday.

Advice from a club mate is to man up, ignore medical advice, down a packet of ibuprofen and neck a load of whisky and just get on with it........ hmmmmm

[shaunaneto]

hmm, mixed news from the physio. Flat back/chronic stiffness seemed to be the issues. Not sure how I'm going to cope with just 15 miles a week, grim. On the positive side it seems fixable with some muscular correction as the boney bits seem fine

Looks like I'll be doing a lot of swimming this summer