I bumped my head in the fallopian tube on the way to fertilising the egg and still get headaches... Can I be the winner?
Eight years ago, nerve damage between my right shoulder and neck, caused by grabbing and lifting/ swinging my toddler as she ran past me. Something went ping inside, followed by weeks of on/off pins and needles, sudden numbness, momentary excrutiating pain before it settled down. Had some physio on it, but it's still weird and wakes me up some nights.
I work in construction project management - if anyone needs a hand lifting anything, they get a flat "no" from me these days!
slipped getting on a windsurfer nearly 15 years ago. My arm went out to steady myself but slid on the board out in front with my whole weight on it. Stained subscapularis and terres minor. I still have pain and mobility with that shoulder now if I am at a desk for too long without stretching and strengthening exercise. Dislocated the other in my teens and have had similar problems in that one for over 25 years.
Injuries that have never really healed.
Knee from a rugby tackle, knackered cartilage as a result from mid 90’s still flares up.
Broke a vertebrae in 2004 and still suffer to this day. A good sports massage that I now attend regularly is a god send.
Other knee in a crash at Megavalange in 2012, snapped one ligament, tore another, cracked the knee cap and the inevitable cartilage damage (there’s a theme here)
None of these will ever ‘heal’ and will be lived with.
One that did heal but really took a while was a right shoulder dislocation kayaking on my 30th, probably took about 4 years before the ache stopped.
Getting old is shit.
Dodgy knee. I did it five years ago at the bottom of Lockerbrook in the Peak. Unclipped after the descent and stepped on a loose rock that rolled my knee outwards. Got a proper shot of pain in the inside of my knee. As it was the first descent of the day and we were doing a Cut Gate out and back and WLT at the end I carried on with it feeling 'grindy'. It was then agonising for a few weeks (kept riding like an idiot).
Nowadays I can feel it starting to 'go' and when it does, I cannot straighten my leg. It 'goes' doing all sorts of things, but especially things that twist the lower leg outwards (side footing a football, swimming breaststroke) tend to do it. When it happens I have to violently try to kick my own arse with my heel. Eventually it 'cracks' and relief ensues.
My money is on a minor meniscus or cartilage tear. It is also the knee I spent 20 years smashing into the ground as a quick bowler, so I can't say it is surprising.
Loads of other bike niggles. I bust my thumb at the start of last December and that is nowhere near 100% six months on.
