Tell me about your injuries...

[billysgirl07]

So I feel better about mine.  I think I have developed another stress fracture...bah.

[Susie]

In college swimming? bicep tendonitis and labral tear on both shoulders. Cost me my sophomore season + 1 surgery per shoulder.

In running as an adult? tendonitis and a talus stress fracture 2 years ago (6+ months off from running). Last fall I also had some achilles inflammation that didn't prevent me from running a half, but prevented me from training for it as well as I wanted to.

[ilovelamp]

While in the military I had multiple stress fractures on both legs from my knees down to my toes. Good times.

[joenali]

Rotator cuff tendinitis with a possible labral tear. I'm out of all activity except for walking and aqua jogging.

Susie tell me about your symptoms,surgery, and recovery!

[ktzmoh]

I had a knee injury 8 years ago that had me off running for 2 or 3 months. Im right now nursing a groin injury that was only partially healed when I ran my 10 mile race last weekend - now I'm paying for it and anticipate at least 2 or 3 weeks more off before I get back into the swing. I guess I'm hoping it's only a pulled groin muscle and not something else - but I don't know that I've ever put in the kind of mileage that would earn me something more like a stress fracture or something.

[mrsjthompson]

During my first and only half last fall the third metatarsal in my right foot snapped in half. Is everybody tired of hearing me talk about this yet??   6 weeks in a boot and almost 6 months no running.

[billysgirl07]

Thanks everyone.  Not that I'm glad that you were all injured, but I'm frustrated that I think I have another stress fracture that I developed after running my half marathon...exactly like what happened to me last year.  Last year I chalked it up to poor training but this year I followed a training plan and am in better shape overall.  It just makes me feel like I suck as a runner.  And I had plans to do all of the things this summer!  Races!  Duathlons!  *sigh*

I hopefully it isn't as bad as I am building it up in my head and I won't be boot-bound for the first half of the summer like I was last year.

[G22]

I sprained both ankles pretty badly in high school. One freshman year during basketball and the other senior year during volleyball.

Last year I stepped on an uneven part of the sidewalk while running and hurt something in my foot. I did it 6 weeks out from my first marathon and missed like 3 weeks of training leading up to the race.

[emilyj]

How much time do you have?

I was a gymnast until my freshman year in college, so I beat the crap out my knees and ankles. I ripped my back apart, which is the injury that forced me out of gymnastics. I still have lasting issues with it today.

Most recently, I'm going on a year now of trying to figure out why my feet hurt when I run/balance/do yoga/use fins when I swim. It's a massive pain in the ass, and limits triathlon training for me because I can't get a decent running training regime.

I had to have my knee scoped last year after I tore my meniscus kickboxing in the offseason. The doctor also cleaned up a ton of other issues while he was in there (see point 1).

I'm back in PT now, trying to fix my achilles. I tore it in December when I was finishing PT for my knee. Despite a ton of rest, it's still giving me issues. My ortho suspects I also tore my piriform muscle. Awesome.

I'm pretty much a disaster.

[sugarbear]

Blown discs (L5-SI and L4-L5) that I was able to rehab in 2007 and continue rowing competitively.

In 2011, I bent down to pick up my child and completely blew L5-S1. I had a microdiscectomy in July 2011 and have been more or less pain free since then. I'm not able to row anymore, or lift much of anything over my head, or load my spine... but despite those limitations, I lift heavy and swim.

[joenali]

May 9, 2014 16:51:34 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Blown discs (L5-SI and L4-L5) that I was able to rehab in 2007 and continue rowing competitively.

In 2011, I bent down to pick up my child and completely blew L5-S1. I had a microdiscectomy in July 2011 and have been more or less pain free since then. I'm not able to row anymore, or lift much of anything over my head, or load my spine... but despite those limitations, I lift heavy and swim.

When are we going swimming?

[sugarbear]

May 9, 2014 17:02:59 GMT -5 joenali said:

May 9, 2014 16:51:34 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Blown discs (L5-SI and L4-L5) that I was able to rehab in 2007 and continue rowing competitively.

In 2011, I bent down to pick up my child and completely blew L5-S1. I had a microdiscectomy in July 2011 and have been more or less pain free since then. I'm not able to row anymore, or lift much of anything over my head, or load my spine... but despite those limitations, I lift heavy and swim.

When are we going swimming?

Let's do it! I haven't been in the water since DS2 was born. I'm going to lobby DH to work with my schedule so that once DS is done nursing, I can swim more. So until then, mornings are out.

During the summer, I can probably go for an hour or two mid-day on Tuesday / Thursday.

[joenali]

May 9, 2014 17:07:58 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

May 9, 2014 17:02:59 GMT -5 joenali said:

When are we going swimming?

Let's do it! I haven't been in the water since DS2 was born. I'm going to lobby DH to work with my schedule so that once DS is done nursing, I can swim more. So until then, mornings are out.

During the summer, I can probably go for an hour or two mid-day on Tuesday / Thursday.

I haven't been cleared to swim yet! Hopefully in a few weeks I can ease back in! Over the summer would be perfect!

[zoidberg]

My back is jacked up such that I can no longer run. One of my crapped up discs is pressing against the nerve root that innervates a bunch of the muscles in my hip and causes severe pain if I try to run. And it kind of hurts the rest of the time, too.

[sadlebred]

2 knee surgeries last fall including 5 days in the hospital with 2 in ICU
5 years ago I had one failed surgery and had to have it redone. I was off the bike for a total of 4 months.
Currently, my knee still hurts. My back is screwed up, and hopefully, I'll find out what's wrong with it next week.

[AAM2012]

It's been a little over 4 months and I can't seem to knock out my muscle tightness and piriformis syndrome. Ugh!!!!

[lasagnasshole]

I did something weird to my right foot in August 2012 from doing a lot of walking in bad shoes. I don't remember the official diagnosis, but the treatment was essentially RICE, good shoes, and avoiding high impact exercise.

By the spring of 2013, I was doing better and was ready to resart running! I had planned to start Couch to 5k (again) the day after my first softball game. Until I was pitching and got hit on the shin with a line drive. I have never seen a bruise that big. I had to elevate my foot for weeks because the blood and fluid was draining down my leg, causing my ankle to swell. Just walking was painful, so running was definitely out.

Once that finally healed sufficiently (I sustained minor permanent damage to my blood vessels), I started Couch to 5k. Hurray! Except that after a few weeks, I started experiencing unbearable pain at the ball of my foot. I was diagnosed with sesamoiditis and instructed to avoid all high impact exercise.

Once THAT sufficiently healed, I was fitted for orthotics to prevent sesamoidits recurrence. I did two short interval jogs to test them out and was feeling pretty good about it and excited to start running again. OMG RUNNING YAY! Then I went on vacation and fell down and sustained a high ankle sprain. That was two months ago, and I still have pain with some movements and have not been cleared to jog.

All of this has been the same damn leg. I'm ready for a new one!

[joenali]

Susie I'm paging you again because I want to know about your symptoms, surgery and recovery. Thanks!

[Deleted]

Achilles tendinitis when I started running, then I broke and sprained my right foot.  The next year I had ITBS, which was part of an issue with my back and hips and stemmed from scar tissue buildup in that broken foot.  Then while I was still rehabbing from that, I sprained my ankle again.

Then I had a wreck this winter and I am still trying to bounce back from it: sprained neck, thoracic, lumbar, si joint, and concussion.

[emilyinchile]

I only learned recently that most people know how many times they've sprained their ankles. I have no idea - I think I went to the ER/urgent care for it 4 times out of about a million.

I am prone to tendinitis and have had it in my foot, ankle and knee. I currently have bursitis in my shoulder and knee, and thanks to scoliosis and a tilted vertebra/compressed disk at L5 I have to manage my back so that I don't end up with my sciatic nerve sending pain down my leg. Basically I am grateful to be a human and not an animal because if I had to live by "survival of the fittest" I would have been killed by a predator long ago.

[irie]

I am about 12 weeks post op from shoulder surgery to fix a large, full thickness rotator cuff tear of the infraspinatus tendon, a labral tear and a bone spur. I had a lot of pain with overhead motion and reaching to the side, horrible night pain and difficulty sleeping, and a constant, deep ache in my shoulder. The surgery was very painful - I was on so many pain meds that I barely remember the first week. PT/rehab is hard and you have to be committed to it. Life in the shoulder immobilizer is difficult, esp if it is your dominant side. 

I fell down the steps a few weeks ago and tore another rotator cuff tendon in my postoperative shoulder. I will need another surgery. 

I previously had surgeries in both ankles to reconstruct the ligaments due to chronic instability. 

[secretlyevil]

I had a stress fracture in both feet at the same time in high school. The past year I've been trying to got through shin splints and now PF.

[MrsE]

Nothing right now ((knock on wood)) but 2 knee surgeries in 2 years (2011 right knee, 2013 left knee). Such is life. Hope you feel better soon.

[Susie]

May 9, 2014 14:34:50 GMT -5 joenali said:

Rotator cuff tendinitis with a possible labral tear. I'm out of all activity except for walking and aqua jogging.

Susie tell me about your symptoms,surgery, and recovery!

It was a PITA to dx because the bicep tendonitis pain confused things.  I had a lot of pain on the back side of my shoulder when I swam, in a very specific spot.  Same spot on both shoulders, prob since i was a 200 fly/400 IMer.  Lots of fly = symmetric injuries.  Essentially labral tear was the last man standing in terms of ruling out dx's.  We considered and ruled out various tendonitis issues, rotator cuff, and pinched nerves in various places (mostly c-spine).  I did PT before and after dx and surgery.  Unfortunately I don't remember the pain all that specifically anymore.  I had the surgeries done in Dec 2001 and Jan 2002.

I had the 2 surgeries done about 6 wks apart, the very beginning and very end of Christmas break that year.  By the time I was having the 2nd one done, the 1st one was strong enough to do things like brush teeth, normal stuff.  I don't think I started PT until the 2nd shoulder was enough weeks post-op though.  I did PT through Jan, Feb, Mar, added aqua jogging, and when the team started back in April after a break after conferences, I could get back in a little at a time.  I was in good enough shape by May/June to ocean lifeguard that summer, and go back to college swimming full bore in the fall.

[joenali]

May 11, 2014 19:38:18 GMT -5 Susie said:

May 9, 2014 14:34:50 GMT -5 joenali said:

Rotator cuff tendinitis with a possible labral tear. I'm out of all activity except for walking and aqua jogging.

Susie tell me about your symptoms,surgery, and recovery!

It was a PITA to dx because the bicep tendonitis pain confused things.  I had a lot of pain on the back side of my shoulder when I swam, in a very specific spot.  Same spot on both shoulders, prob since i was a 200 fly/400 IMer.  Lots of fly = symmetric injuries.  Essentially labral tear was the last man standing in terms of ruling out dx's.  We considered and ruled out various tendonitis issues, rotator cuff, and pinched nerves in various places (mostly c-spine).  I did PT before and after dx and surgery.  Unfortunately I don't remember the pain all that specifically anymore.  I had the surgeries done in Dec 2001 and Jan 2002.

I had the 2 surgeries done about 6 wks apart, the very beginning and very end of Christmas break that year.  By the time I was having the 2nd one done, the 1st one was strong enough to do things like brush teeth, normal stuff.  I don't think I started PT until the 2nd shoulder was enough weeks post-op though.  I did PT through Jan, Feb, Mar, added aqua jogging, and when the team started back in April after a break after conferences, I could get back in a little at a time.  I was in good enough shape by May/June to ocean lifeguard that summer, and go back to college swimming full bore in the fall.

Thank you! Dr. Says I have tendinitis too and is pretty convinced that I have a labral tear as well. I am in so much pain, even with pt right now. My neck, rhomboid area, trapezius area and front of my shoulder hurt.

I'm on week 4 if PT. I do notice a slight difference, but is it because I'm not doing anything or the PT? I have an ortho appointment at the end of May to reevaluate and take the next steps. It's been a year since this pain has started. .

[irie]

May 11, 2014 19:45:38 GMT -5 joenali said:

May 11, 2014 19:38:18 GMT -5 Susie said:

It was a PITA to dx because the bicep tendonitis pain confused things.  I had a lot of pain on the back side of my shoulder when I swam, in a very specific spot.  Same spot on both shoulders, prob since i was a 200 fly/400 IMer.  Lots of fly = symmetric injuries.  Essentially labral tear was the last man standing in terms of ruling out dx's.  We considered and ruled out various tendonitis issues, rotator cuff, and pinched nerves in various places (mostly c-spine).  I did PT before and after dx and surgery.  Unfortunately I don't remember the pain all that specifically anymore.  I had the surgeries done in Dec 2001 and Jan 2002.

I had the 2 surgeries done about 6 wks apart, the very beginning and very end of Christmas break that year.  By the time I was having the 2nd one done, the 1st one was strong enough to do things like brush teeth, normal stuff.  I don't think I started PT until the 2nd shoulder was enough weeks post-op though.  I did PT through Jan, Feb, Mar, added aqua jogging, and when the team started back in April after a break after conferences, I could get back in a little at a time.  I was in good enough shape by May/June to ocean lifeguard that summer, and go back to college swimming full bore in the fall.

Thank you! Dr. Says I have tendinitis too and is pretty convinced that I have a labral tear as well. I am in so much pain, even with pt right now. My neck, rhomboid area, trapezius area and front of my shoulder hurt.

I'm on week 4 if PT. I do notice a slight difference, but is it because I'm not doing anything or the PT? I have an ortho appointment at the end of May to reevaluate and take the next steps. It's been a year since this pain has started. .

What imaging have you had done? I hope PT helps you.

[joenali]

May 13, 2014 11:35:13 GMT -5 irie said:

May 11, 2014 19:45:38 GMT -5 joenali said:

Thank you! Dr. Says I have tendinitis too and is pretty convinced that I have a labral tear as well. I am in so much pain, even with pt right now. My neck, rhomboid area, trapezius area and front of my shoulder hurt.

I'm on week 4 if PT. I do notice a slight difference, but is it because I'm not doing anything or the PT? I have an ortho appointment at the end of May to reevaluate and take the next steps. It's been a year since this pain has started. .

What imaging have you had done? I hope PT helps you.

MRI and X-ray.

[irie]

Ask your dr about an mr arthogram. Those show labral tears better than MRIs alone.

[jane6672]

Partial kneecap dislocation 1.5 years ago.

Damage is healing, but slowly. Frustrating. Knees suck.