How is the best way to fall over?

I had to go for a bone scan after my shoulder break to check for osteoporosis. Apparently it's standard procedure up here for a 'fall from height' in the 'elderly' (sorry!) I'm only 5' tall and was barely 60. Was quite upset I fitted the parameters.

If in doubt I ring 111. They are very helpful and you can ask to speak to a Clinician who is a trained nurse.

I had a horrible muscle pull from putting on tights to go to a meeting. It hurt for weeks and weeks. I wanted to look smart at a meeting - definitely wasn't worth the pain.

roses well done for being near a bed!

Thank you all. To be honest I am in agony! It's definitely a rib thing, and I expect we all know what they can be like. I've had it before, Ribs damage very easily don't they. I just need to wait. It will ease off soon.

Thanks for askkng. x

For all those feeling unwell as a result of a fall, get better soon.but to answer the OP 'what is the best way to fall over' it has to be what happened to me one day last week.Putting on tights ( wanted to wear a skirt to go out)
Losing balance, teetering about and eventually falling back onto the bed dramatically.A nice soft landing!

How are you jings It can take a few days before we feel the after effects of a fall Might be time to get checked out

I sympathise about the knee jings and hope any swelling is minimal and not too painful,when I fell in June very un-lady like outside our local Bank (in front of customers who I knew)I just knew I couldn't stop myself it was in slow motion and all I could do was see the pavement come up to meet me with a thump !! then came the crack of the bones as my whole body weight fell against the dam shoulder but everyone was lovely and helpful and I did get one to one attention from a dishy paramedic which lightened the experience. ( still on the mend though after all this time) xx

How are you today Jings?

jings - oh dear poor you. Things can suddenly start hurting weeks after the original event, I'm sorry to have to tell you. I was innocently crossing a one way street in June and was knocked down by an (illegally) reversing car. Stitches in the back of my head and a solid blood soaked hair helmet for a week seemed like the sum total of my injuries. X Rays and a brain scan showed nothing but tissue damage. Since then I have had an aching jaw, sore, stiff neck, aching lower back on right side, and pain on the left where I have had a hip replacement previously. Not only that but I have put on over half a stone due to my inability to exercise!!

I realise that this may not cheer you up but I sincerely hope that you make a speedy recovery and will get back out there and kick a***. I certainly intend to!

Oh jings... Please everyone see a Dr if you ever start to feel sick after a fall, especially when you are eating. My mother had a succession of falls, and it was discovered that she had broken her back, and has osteoporosis. That was three years ago, and she has done it again this year. Luckily the medication now available is amazing, so she does recover each time, but it's hard to see how ill she looks and how thin she gets.

Honestly! Was fine yesterday!

Sigh! I thought I had got away with it. Was bending over cleaning in bathroom. Something clicked horribly in my back just where the marks are. Now got horrific pain in side of back round to the front. Obviously bruise to ribs has come out.

Am now sitting in straight backed chair keeping very still. Apart from GN ing finger.

Oh luckygirl it's that "falls in the elderly" phrase that chills my heart! Having worked in a supportive role with elderly people in my forties I now realise many of them weren't old at all...just a few years older than I am now, 65! I tripped over a box at home a few months ago, landed in another box full of wine glasses (no alcohol involved, truly there wasn't) slicing my forearm, while gashing my head on the sharp edge of a radiator in the process....it wasn't pretty, me and the carpet bear the scars! OH kept telling people I'd "had a fall", I kept correcting him saying I'd just fallen over. Not the same thing at all in my book! Am I in denial that I'm getting older...too b****y right I am!!

I tripped up walking downstairs carrying my first born when he was just about a year old. I kept running as I could not grab the stair rail without dropping the baby. I hit the floor hard with left foot the ankle swelled up impressively straight away.

I phoned the next door neighbour who rescued the baby grabbed som nappies and took him to her house. He was fine, a neighbour across the road took me to A &E. I just could not get hold of DH until about 8pm.
There was no break in my ankle but I could not weight bear and it hurt like B if I didn't keep it raised.
DH took me over to Mils next day and she looked after me and the baby for a good week as I could not put my foot to ground.
I do think that this fall might have caused a stress fracture in my lower spine, which was the cause of the back problems I developed about 3yrs and one baby later.

I didn't realise the leverage bit of my left knee had swanned off into the sunset until my niece's wedding when, after the jollities, a very merry crowd of us were driven back to the hotel in a minibus. When I tried to step down facing forward in a crouched position nothing happened and I sank gracefully into a heap on the pavement. DS pulled me to my feet and do you think anyone would believe my cries of (trying not to laugh) 'It's my knee, it's my knee?'

I have since discovered that I can accomplish the same manoever backwards without any problems.

The goldfish weren't too pleased when I landed on them, Jingle. I've had a few falls since then, most recently doing the splits in the garden when the path was slippy. Just waiting for arthroscopy on my dodgy knee which improved immensely after I recovered from the last mishap.

Mind you, if you'd have banged your head....!

I am so sorry whenim64 but your post is hilarious!!!

Sorry again.

I always take a stick with me on rough ground, whitewave. I have a foldable one. I reckon I fall over at least once a year, somehow. DD is currently carrying on with the tradition. She broke her ankle the week after I did last year, and like me is still having tendon problems. We went for a walk last weekend when they came up to visit, and she caught her foot in a pothole. She has a fracture just above her ankle and is having to wear a large black boot and use crutches. Only 30 and already has broken herself twice in one year.

I was interested to read that you use a stick ,lucky girl because you have a sore foot. Looking at your profile photo you don't look nearly old enough!!!! Now reading what you say about risk and the elderly I am wondering if I ought to seriously think about one when walking the dog as I often find myself flat on my back and shaken up. I am usually on my own for miles so no-one to pick me up.

I fell out of a train in Sri Lanka. Luckily it was stationary at the time! I'd been sitting in the open doorway with my feet hanging out as we sped through the mountains. As we arrived at a station some other passengers wanted to get off so to get out of their way I decided to jump down onto the platform, which is at track level. As I took off the toe of one of my boots got caught inside the leg of my trousers and I crashed to the concrete platform. Nobody attempted to help me. I wonder if they thought I was drunk? Luckily no bones were broken but I had the most fabulous bruise on my thigh. I put the lack of major injury down to the thick layer of fat on my leg. I believe slim people can buy padded knickers which which help to cushion their falls.

GA. What a courageous effort. That sounds as if it was over and above the call of duty.

I had a spectacular fall about five minutes before I was due to leave home to lead a course where the subject was 'healing'. Turned up with my arm in a sling made of a brightly coloured scarf and took me and my badly broken elbow off to A&E the following morning!

to jingl and others recovering from a fall because although we're joking it can actually be quite scary and leave people feeling quite vulnerable.

At our age (well, my age) a fall is far more of a shock than it was when we were younger. When I fell over outside the bank, I was very shaken and was most grateful to the bank staff who took me in and made me a cup of tea. Whereas when I came off my bike and suffered a world class black eye at the age of 16, I just got back on my bike and went home to find a steak to put on the bruise!

Hope you're ok, Jingle. That must have been a shock.

The best way to fall is on your back in the garden pond, as I did a few years ago, trying to prevent the dog wading in. Legs in the air, nothing on under my dressing gown which fell open. Very undignified but no harm done.