Have you ever had a bruise that you just couldn't BELIEVE, it was so bad?!

[bertha katzenengel]

This thing throbs and stings! And I got it on Monday! And it hasn't even colored up yet!!

Man! Ever had one of these things?

Here's how I got it (not for the sensitive): I got into the car and totally CRASHED my shin into the change cup, which I had left open. :SHRIEK:.)

[billyskank]

1. I'm with ya. I've currently got an ulcer on the inside of my upper lip

and it's the worst ever. I dunno how it got there; usually they come because I bit my cheek or something, but this one came for no reason on Sunday. It's been getting steadily worse since then, and it's really unpleasant. x(

[bertha katzenengel]

6. oooh, don't you hate those?

i hope it heals up very quickly.

[billyskank]

8. Hope your shin gets better soon also

That's a bad place to whack yourself, there's no flesh there at all to cushion the blow. That's where we always do hit ourselves, natch. x(

[bertha katzenengel]

31. thanks

It will. Too soon for a hypochondriac, of course. :silly:

[Rising Phoenix]

30. try not to touch it with your tounge

and use Anbesol, it really heals quicker, those things suck

[bertha katzenengel]

32. *blink* -- LOL Mrs. Sniffa....

it took me a sec to realize you were replying to Billy, not me.

* how the hell am i going to -- wait a minute, WHY would i -- :wtf: *

:rofl:

[Rising Phoenix]

33. oops, my bad

[bertha katzenengel]

35. Nope. Not your bad. You DID reply to Billy.

I just didn't look closely enough at the thread.

still :rofl: though - thanks for the laugh

[Rising Phoenix]

36. well then, you are most welcome : )

[Rising Phoenix]

34. you should use Anbesol, works good

I just told this to the wrong person, oops

[billyskank]

49. I will try to find some, thanks.

And don't let that Bertha trick you into thinking you made a mistake! :)

[AlCzervik]

2. When i was in highschool i played softball and i was standing at homeplate

and a runner was coming in that i was planning on tagging out, well this girl slid into the bottom of my shin cleets first like a freight train, i went down immediately and i swear i couldn't catch my breath for at least 3 minutes but it felt like an eternity. They took me to the emergency room, xrayed it, wrapped, gave me an ice pack and said i would have the worst bruise of my life that would take at least a month to improve. 6 months later it could still see the shadows of it.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. OUCH

You know, I always flirted mercilessly with the catchers on opposing teams . . . . ;)

I got something similar from a hockey ball. I have about a 1-in. diameter spot on my ankle where the skin is dead from that hit.

[WeRQ4U]

3. I tore my ankle up pretty bad in high school once.

I sprained it, then went home and sprained it again when I stepped on something. My leg turned black and blue from my toes to my knee. After purple, it turned a sick yellow.

[bertha katzenengel]

15. gack

:scared:

[Trigger Hippie]

4. Oh, yeah.

I just had mine a few weeks ago. Someone elbowed my breast when we were going out a door and the bruise nearly turned black it was so bad. All those capillaries in there must got wicked ruptured. :(

[bertha katzenengel]

7. poor baby

OWWW! I hope they apologized. :(

[Trigger Hippie]

9. I don't recall...

I was a bit intoxicated at the time. :silly:

[seemunkee]

10. You mean like this

picture removed. I don't even like looking at it.

Tore a groin muscle

[billyskank]

11. Owwwwwwwwwww!

:hurts:

[kick-ass-bob]

12. I get bruises on my forearms all the time

from my sparring classes (karate.) Some get huge welts and turn all sorts of colors. The key is to massage them vigorously so the blood that got trapped can dissapate - then the color won't be nearly as bad or last as long. (It will however, spread out more, but the color is not nearly as bad.)

[Xithras]

13. I was hit by a car when I was 15

Looking back, it was my own damned fault. I was skateboarding at 2AM with some friends...wearing all black. The poor guy in the car didn't see me and whacked me at about 40MPH.

I broke two fingers and dislocated my left shoulder, but that wasn't the worst of it. I ended up with a continuous bruise that ran from the side of my left knee all the way up to my left nipple, and it had a matching bruise that ran from my left shoulder to my left elbow. For me, it was one of the most painful things I'd ever experienced. Getting dressed was hell. Getting undressed was hell. Taking a shower was hell. Turning around too quickly was hell. Walking was hell. Sitting was hell.

Basically, it was hell.

It took the bruise a month to start fading, several months to fade from sight, and nearly six for the soreness to completely fade. I may have whined and moaned a lot during that time, but I was glad to experience it...if I'd hit just slightly lower I'd have been killed.

[leftylady]

17. That guy out in front of my house was you?

I kind of wondered where he disappeared to so fast.

[Shell Beau]

18. I got hit by a truck when I was 8 while on my bike!

It was totally my fault. I flew over my handle bars and landed a good ways away. I got pretty banged up. Looking back, I am really lucky it wasn't worse as I am sure you feel that way too!

[crispini]

14. Arnica.

It works!

[bertha katzenengel]

37. Where does one find it?

Looked at the local drug stores' web sites - nuthin'. :shrug:

[crispini]

39. Try a Whole Foods / supplement / homeopathic type place.

You can take it internally or rub it on -- I usually buy both types. It'll clear up a bruise really well!

http://www.hmedicine.com/shopping/product/1371/q_arnica

You have to get the ointment to spread on, the tablet to take internally. If I had to only pick one I'd do the ointment.

[bertha katzenengel]

40. I'll get some & rub it on - as soon as I can touch it.

Ow.

Thanks, crispini. BTW I like your name - makes me think of crunchy italian food. :)

[crispini]

42. LOL!

Thanks. Yes, I'm Sesame Garlic! :7

[Shell Beau]

16. Yes! A few of them. All of them were results of

my clumsiness. Falling down the stairs (very bruised shin), falling over a speaker at a bar (huge bruise on thigh), shutting my calf in the car door (nasty bruise on calf). I could really go on. But they are fascinating to watch. They change colors daily, from bluish-green to purple to black back to purple to brown to a light pink!

[khashka]

19. All the freaking time

Because of my disability I can't always tell where my legs and feet are. I'm beginning to figure it out, though - they are always in the wrong place. I have a bruise on my thigh the size of Mississippi. And a burn on my foot that won't heal. And two broken toes (I thought it was only one - I'm a hopeless optimist). And various cuts, abrasions, lacerations...

But it's all good, I suppose. Worse things happen at sea....

Khash.

[Throckmorton]

20. Yes, I fell off my Bike in 5th grade

Bruise the size of a loaf of bread on my side, hurt for a month.

[barb162]

21. Yeah one time I slipped/fell in a grocery store on some water in the

aisle I didn't see. I landed very hard on my right thigh and right arm. The dark purple and black bruise covered the entire right side of my upper leg. Went to the ER where they thought I had been beaten. I had to keep telling them, uh, no, I fell in the grocery store. That was about 15 years ago and I can still see the mark in that whole area...the skin is a tiny shade darker. The ER docs were very concerned about the huge size of this bruise, they were afraid I would get one of those blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, from it because of the size and severity of this giant dark bruise. I ahd to use ice bags for three days or something as I recall and they were debating whether I should be admitted as a bed patient to watch the progress of that bruise

[Telly Savalas]

22. About a half an hour ago I seemed to have bruised my finger

with a bread knife. Bought Mrs. Savalas some flowers, and was trying to trim the stems so they'd fit in the vase better when I put a slice in my left pointer finger. After it stopped bleeding and I was cleaning it up to put a big bandaid on it, I noticed it's a tad swollen and blue around the gash. Yuck.

The good news is that my 3 year old daughter hasn't repeated the word I shouted when I did it.

[progmom]

23. yes. during one of my very very rare spider- nightmare-sleepwalking...

incidents. I woke up jammed between my desk and my dresser, flailing madly. I had horrible bruises from my calves all the way up to my shoulders.

[bertha katzenengel]

25. soda on keyboard alert

"woke up jammed between my desk and my dresser, flailing madly"

:rofl:

I'm very, very sorry, Progmom.

:rofl:

When was this? And how do you come by such horrible nightmares?

[progmom]

27. this was about 10 years ago

i also launched myself off the bed once, in the middle of a dream that there was a spider dropping from the ceiling. i put a knee-sized hole in the drywall.

i am very very afraid of spiders. :cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

28. I certainly wasn't laughing at your fear, bud.

:pals:

[progmom]

29. i know you well enough to know that

:hug:

[AngryAmish]

24. golf ball to the forearm

It looked like a donut for a while. Lasted about a month. I beat the shit out of the kid for hitting into our group.

[bertha katzenengel]

26. You must be one of them Ohio Amish.

Obscure movie quote reference. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. I have one on the backs of both upperarms,

in precisely the same spot; and I have no idea how I got them. Bizarre.

[bertha katzenengel]

41. Maybe your drumsticks revolted in the night.

(I'm going to be really embarrassed if you're not a drummer.)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I'm a violinist, actually...

Must've been the bow...:nopity:

[bertha katzenengel]

44. Yeah! It was the bow!

It was in cahoots w/ the rosin . . . ;)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

45. Yeah....I bashed my eye while opening the car door a few days ago

Luckily there is just a low key bruise underneath my eye -it could have been much worse

[skygazer]

46. Yes. I once had the bruise from hell.

In 98, I was riding a very hot Thoroughbred mare - I let her out for a gallop on our hard packed long dirt driveway (about a mile). She was flying, so fast I had tears streaming out of my eyes. Then one of the stupid dogs who'd run on ahead jumped at her as we galloped past and she kicked at him. I was ready for that and didn't lose my seat. However, she must have thought it was fun because she immediately let fly again (don't ever let anyone tell you a galloping horse can't buck - they can).

I left the saddle and sailed over her head, thinking as I watched the ground approach, that I really needed to get a cell phone since this was going to hurt like hell and I may need to call an ambulance. I tucked and rolled, hitting hard and scraping all the skin off my right arm from my elbow to my wrist and slamming my right thigh on the ground.

I had to walk home, since the horse immediatly decamped and the following day, I had a bruise on my leg from my hip bone to my knee. It was an amazing shade of blue and purple and yellow - very pretty.

But wait - it gets better.

Three days after this incident, I had another fall, off my Arab. This was just a stupid fall - I was getting on bareback and he stepped to one side. I wasn't on far enough to stay on but I was on too far to get my feet under me and landed on my butt, hard enough to break my first lumbar vertabra.

My roommate drove me to the hospital where I waited in agony in the waiting room for SIX HOURS before I saw a doctor. He put me in an elastic brace and the pressure of the brace and my lack of movement made my leg (remember my leg?) swell up like a balloon. I couldn't sleep on my back because that hurt, I couldn't sleep on my right side because of the swollen and bruised leg and I couldn't sleep on my stomach because it bothered my back. So for four months, I slept on my left side.

To this day, I have a hard patch of scar tissue under the skin of my right thigh that is scarred muscle from that fall.

[bertha katzenengel]

47. If complaining were an Olympic sport, I'd medal for decades to come. But

having read this tale, I'll never whine about a mere bruise again. :hug: Bless your heart.

[yellowdogintexas]

48. Three very distinct incidents:

1. I was on a water ski boat w/my friend and her nutcase brotherinlaw decided to take off without warning us. I was thrown off balance and fell, literally sitting on the corner of a full case of motor oil. Even though it was a cardboard box, because it was full of quart cans of oil, I might as well have hit the corner of a steel box. The bruise did not even start to show for 10 days, it was so deep. Took weeks to go away.

2. Blood donation horror story. Nurse does the venipuncture, and because I have a small mole in the target zone, she decided to angle away from it so she wouldn't hit it (never mind that NO one had ever tried that before in all the other times I had given blood). So I am lying there, squeezing my sponge ball, wondering why it is taking so long (I am usually a very fast fill) and another nurse comes over to check me...all the blood was running into my elbow, under the skin, instead of the blood bag. I had a hematoma that couldn't be beat which lasted for about 3 weeks. Sort of an eggplant colored baseball sized thingie on my left elbow.

3. Not for the claustrophobic: In my skinny days I did a bit of cave exploring, and because I was skinny and NOT claustrophobic I was sent to places the men just couldn't get into. Gals, we are definitely more flexibly than the men are! Anyway, there was this little horizontal slot that we needed to get through to finish our map survey and I was the only one who could get through it. I ended up going through it several times. What I did not realize at the time was that the little ridge under my belly that I felt every time I went through there was actually beating the hell out of a vein over my left iliac crest (hipbone that actually stuck out a little at that time in my life) It hematomaed too, and also took a long time to heal.

And don't youjust hate it when you bang your shin bone on something really hard! Those hurt so much!!!!!

[jmm]

50. I've had bruises so bad people thought I was abused.

About five years ago my tv had broken and a friend drive me to get a new one. She couldn't pull into my street so she drove as close as she could and I carried it the rest of the way. My elevator was broken and I carried it up one flight of stairs. My arms were sore but they didn't look bad at first. A day or two later on my way to work a stranger asked why I was letting him do that to me. I didn't know what she was talking about until she mentioned my arms and then I realized it looked really bad. The reactions only got worse as the day continued. Even people who knew me and knew there was no "he" thought something much worse had happened. Despite it being the summer I had to stay covered up so I wouldn't have to constantly explain to people what really happened.