(Now with pictures)okay, something CRAZY happened to me

[s0p0g]

talking about injuries after waking up that haven't been there before: i dislocated my shoulder thrice in bed (while sleeping) (alone)
although you can throw me off a several metres high wall or off a mountainbike at full speed going downhill, just gimme a second or two to catch my breath, an i'm good to go again
weird body is weird.


also the stripes mentioned above several times indeed sound like stretch marks; they occur especially during puberty and pregnancy (fast gain of volume) -> Striae gravidarum, but also when you overdo bodybuilding (especially while taking stuff to help your muscles grow, and no, i'm not talking about protein shakes and mineral water), or somehow manage to gain weight in any other way, à la Supersize Me; it's the fibres of your connective tissue tearing and not properly healing again, much like "normal" scars
discovered mine by chance someday a couple of weeks after i had stopped my personal Supersize Me treatment after a couple of weeks ^^ (have a problem gaining weight)

 

[Mr F.]

Well, I got a few random medical complaints.

Heres an interesting one though.

After an operation done on my toes, my muscle grew through the now weakened skin. And then began to cover the nail. It was horrifically painful. I had to burn away the excess muscle using some... Stick thing. I was in Morocco at the time. Sand got in it.

Think about that.

Sand.
Muscle without skin.
Burning.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Go to a doctor. The doctor can order x-rays to see if there is anything else in there, and to help judge if the original injury healed properly and with that information you & the doctor can make a decision about whether you need to be "cut open" again.

Thought about it but I'm pretty sure I managed to get it all.
Would be kinda ironic if I did go because I remember getting recalled back in the hospital and get cracked back open because they forget to pull out all the stitches. (apparently they forgot a little bit though)

Guess you can't trust a doctor to get anything right.

 

[TallanKhan]

I always think it's weird to wake up with injuries that I don't remember going to sleep with.

What kind of injuries are we talking about? If its the odd bruise you may just be experiencing disturbed sleep. If on the other hand your waking up with gunshot wounds and the like, you may want to look into this....

 

[silver wolf009]

.... but the pimple was actually AN ENTIRE PACK OF FLESH EATING SPIDERS!!

Now THAT'S a reference. I commend you good sir.

OT: I found out I was allergic to morphine the day I broke my arm; it did nothing to lower the pain, and I just broke out into hives.

Fun little coincidence that made life suck even more at that point.

 

[Snotnarok]

He's found one of the monitoring wires, send in the team and bring the memory eraser.

 

[Guffe]

I had a small strange pimple thing right above my ass crack, thought nothing about it, it didn't go away, went to the doctors...
Well she said a part of my body hair was growing inwards and "eating me up" so the next thing I know I am on the operation table and they make a 4inch cut down towards my ass and find a hole inside my body the size of an egg full of hair and other shit not supposed to be there.
No aliens there thou

 

[sky14kemea]

Came back for the pictures. OP you got big balls to do that yourself! Well done!

I'm guessing it was a hospital mix-up and they used the wrong thread or something. Hopefully it didn't happen to anyone else.

 

[auron200004]

pityriasis rosea

Had that exact same thing, but I was in the 6th grade. It started as a spot on my nose. I wore glasses at the time, so I thought it was a rash caused by friction. So I stopped wearing glasses. As it got worse, and started to get pussy, I thought it must have been poison ivy. As I started getting spots all over my body, I had no idea what the hell was going on, and neither did my parents. Was glad to find out its lack of danger and how fleeting it was. Had to wear long sleeve shirts and long pants for a few hot late-spring days, so it wouldn't get noticed, but nothing else.

And, as another weird health thing that may or may not be as weird as I think it is...I have quite a few scars, mostly on my hands on legs. No idea where they come from. My parents have no idea, I certainly didn't get them before I had the capacity to remember because they would have said. So... I have still no idea to this day.

Oh, and this one is only tangentially related to the topic: I have pretty noticeable forehead wrinkles which wouldn't be a big deal, but I'm only 18. It's just the way my skull is shaped, I think (I can move my scalp back and forth, causing it to wrinkle more, too, I guess I'm just weird altogether). But, when I was like 2, I fell down some concrete stairs at my old house and cut my face up. I still have scars on either side of my nose. But when I was telling that story to somebody, they asked if that's where I got the "scar" on my forehead from, too. No idea how he thought a forehead wrinkle was a scar, but he wasn't exactly smart either.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Go to a doctor. The doctor can order x-rays to see if there is anything else in there, and to help judge if the original injury healed properly and with that information you & the doctor can make a decision about whether you need to be "cut open" again.

Thought about it but I'm pretty sure I managed to get it all.
Would be kinda ironic if I did go because I remember getting recalled back in the hospital and get cracked back open because they forget to pull out all the stitches. (apparently they forgot a little bit though)

Guess you can't trust a doctor to get anything right.

Well there is a reason that they say they are "practicing" medicine.
Unfortunately, it' *us* they are *practicing* on! {grin}
Do keep an eye on it though, & if it becomes painful or inflamed, I'd really recommend
consulting with an MD.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I have a kind of weird vision with my nice wittle blue eyes. See, I've got 20/13 vision...but I am sensitive to bright light. Moreover, should said light source become to overwhelming, it can literally blind me. Hence, why I don't travel when there's a vast amount of snow glare. This has its advantages, though, because where my day vision suffers, my night vision is a little more enhanced. My night time vision is more quickly focused than others PLUS I can make out outlines of objects and people in complete darkness.

A fact that kinda freaked out my second girlfriend when I told she had a nice butterfly tattoo just below her waist line in complete darkness.

 

[Angie7F]

I have multiple ear piercings, a few in the cartilage of the ear.

One night I was out clubbing and I did a very sexy hair flip, got drunk and high and danced all night, and had one hell of a party.

next morning I woke up, took a shower and looked in the mirror to find that one of my studs in my ear was missing.

I thought "Darn I must have lost it on the dance floor"

However, I noticed something was sticking out from the back of my ear. It was my earring.

Then, I realized that when I flipped my hair (or whatever) it got tangled in the back of the stud, pulling it through the front fleshy side of my ear.
But the stud head was too big to go through the hole in the cartilage, and got lodged there.
Being so high and drunk I didnt realize, and spent over 12 hours like that (hung over and passed out) so by the time I took a shower, the flesh had covered over the stud.

That was FREAKY! Unintentional body implants??

I had to go to the doctor and have them cut the front side open and force the stud out from my bones.
it healed over nicely si it was okay but it was quite shocking.

 

[dumbseizure]

I have 3 stories! yay me!

First Isn't really injury related, but at the rip age of 20 years old I was diagnosed with early onset arthritis. The doctor was quite concerned because he said 20 is really early for it, so technically it would be early onset early onset arthritis, but anyway.

My second was when we were in Hawaii. We were standing on a volcanic rock cliff edge, and I decided to get closer to the edge to take a photo. Well, my weak knees decided to do a "1,2, fuck you" and buckled on me, and I took a tumble onto volcanic rock. I heard a scream from one person we were with at the time, because they thought I hit my head on the volcanic rock, but I got up and felt fine....or so I thought. At a second look, I had almost completely skinned my right thumb and right bicep. Let me tell you, it is quite terrible pain when it kicks in, and for the next few weeks, it was a time of lathering my thumb and arm in anti septic cream and taking anti biotics because I had practically no skin on either of them.

And my final one was from when I was in year 12 at high school. I had been practicing for my music practical exam, roughly playing drums for 2-4 hours a day, every day for a few months at this point. Well, I woke up with a bit of a sore wrist one morning. Thinking it was just a sprain, I wrapped a bandage on it and went to school. Well, it progressively got much worse through out the day, up to the point of where I couldn't even write. So after school me and my mum went to go visit the doctor, he did a few tests (the usual "does this hurt?" "FUCK, YES") and from that and a few xrays, turned out that I had tendinitis. Which is weird for a 17 year old. I then spent the next 9 months wearing a special cast to stop my wrist from moving, which is so much fun. And after 9 months and 2 cortisone injections, I could finally take that blasted cast off.

And those are my 3 stories. GOODNIGHT!

 

[SciMal]

Well, this is a freaky story:

I'm not in any pain, it's more a slight discomfort and also the thought of stitches still being in me is...unnerving(I wouldn't call it a 'phobia' but I reeeeaaaally don't like having them).
It's just I'm just not sure what to do now. If I try pull it out, it might break apart and stay in my there. I can't leave it obviously but nor do I want to get cut open again just to make sure there's nothing else in there.

That's not a dissolvable suture.

That's a Prolene monofilament suture: http://www.surgical-instrument-pictures.com/prolene.html

It's permanent, and was supposed to stay in there. After 10 years you might not need the sutures for support anymore, but you might also want to check with your doctor to make sure everything looks fine. They're used to tie fibrous tissues to joint labrums and other fibrous tissues to encourage healing.

 

[username sucks]

I actually use that joke quite often when I tell that story now..

My healing is weird at times though, I've currently got a tiny cut on my forearm that's been healing for 3 weeks now. But I used to get massive cuts or burns at work and they'd be mostly healed by the time I got home.

My body does that.

I got a series of small scratches on my shins when I was climbing through some rough terrain a few months ago.... Still there. All pink and scarlike.

Gouged a massive gash into my had a while back, healed up in a couple of weeks. Any broken bone I've had has healed in a few weeks too. Nearly shattered my ankles jumping off of a 12' fence and getting my shorts caught in the barbs at the top. A week later I'm walking around, fine.

Selective healing, clearly.

I've got another one of those. When I was 10, one of my friends challenged me to a foot race with both arms inside of our shirts. It ended how you would expect, with me falling on the left side of my face at a sprint and skidding about a foot on asphalt. On my face.

I went to the hospital looking like Harvey Two-face, and they told my parents that I would have a rather large visible scar for the rest of my life unless I got surgery.

Then after a few weeks first with a bandage on my face then with it off (and all the ridicule you would expect from an elementary school), it healed without any scarring. Yet my arms scar with every tiny cut.

 

[Headsprouter]

I must point out this thread is about a thread. Lol!

Well, nothing too wierd, but I have experienced a few injuries.

Split head twice, and chin once. Can't remember any but the split chin. Scarring from those.

Arrow shaped scar on hand (small) from a bathroom tile.

On thumb of same hand, deceased wart growth that has become part of my thumb, it appears. It won't go! It's been there for as long as I can remember.

Also on same hand, on finger immediately right of middle, odd red patch, darker in the middle, appears to empty, but never leaves...

Freckle-less patch all of my nose, due to severe sunburn. It flares up when exposed to extreme heat or cold with bulbous growths.

Actually, they're nearly all a bit strange on it...

 

[KefkaCultist]

I do have one injury that's a little on the weird side.

When I was 10-ish, a friend and I were high-speed racing our bikes around town at night and, being an avid Mario Kart 64 player at the time, I saw what I thought was the perfect opportunity for a sweet shortcut through a gas station parking lot leading to a small slopped ramp that I'd do a jump off of. Of course, being at night I couldn't really see and it turned out that the slopped ramp I thought was there was actually just a solid block... I hit that block hard and did at a 180 flip in the air, landing directly onto my face and my bike landing directly on top of me. My injuries from this? Two small scars slightly above my right knee. I honestly don't even know how they got there from the accident since my face was the focal point of the pain lol.

Also, more recently, I got a paper cut on one of my knuckles via some cardboard at work. It was pretty bad as far as paper cuts go, but still nowhere near bothersome. However, after it healed up I've got small, wart-like (pretty sure they're not warts) bumps where the cut was. It's small and probably not noticeable by anyone unless they actually inspect my finger for some reason, so it doesn't bother me at all.