Damaged ribs

[cynna]

thanks for the info guys

im not competing in anything just a lot of km in a few days. by the sounds of things i should be ok to do it. just hope i dont sneeze too much with hay fever

the painkillers they gave me work well coz i can tell when they wear off.... they wouldnt give me any the first night since i had had too much to drink. will have to start moving aroud more tomorrow tho

have learnt that laughter is the best medicine when u have sore ribs

[klingon]

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the painkillers they gave me work well coz i can tell when they wear off.... they wouldnt give me any the first night since i had had too much to drink.

So... there must be a story in that... how did you hurt your ribs anyway?

[F5 Dave]

I broke a rib racing & didn't realise until the chiro pointed it out, sure did hurt & I figured something was wrong. Voltarin is your friend, but don't take more than one at a time if you are riding. I had to ride a GP on a kart track a couple of weeks after & 2 or 3 make you feel a bit surreal.

[cynna]

yep - got voltarin and codine

i did it at a punk gig on saturday night. dunno how but i remember the pain whenever i got banged into - wasnt going to miss the exploited for anything tho. when i went to go home afterwards i was in agony and had trouble breathing because it hurt so much. i doint think it would have been so bad if i sat down straight away but by the end of the night i had been knocked around quite a bit which probably made it worse

went to the hospital and waited for ages. got sick of waiting so decided to walk back to town. that was a bad idea as wheni started breathing heavily again i was in agony. ended up at the after hours clinic where for $55 i was told to come back tomorrow and get xrayed. wouldnt give me any pain killers then since i had been drinking.

after another long wait the next day i got xrayed and sent home - nothing broken just torn cartilage.

[F5 Dave]

Good grief! are they still going? Think I have an old LP from erm ~ 25 yrs ago.

Hope it gets better soon