I fell over today

[Popfan]

As the title says I tripped going up a kerb and smacked down on the concrete, whacked my hands and the side of my leg. I'm absolutely fine but bloody hell it hurt!! It must have looked dramatic as someone stopped their car and checked I was OK and also helped me up.
Falling as an adult is horrid (and very embarrassing!) - you see kids running, falling and often jumping up and brushing themselves off! I had to sit there for a bit before managing to get (or be helped) up.

N.B. I'm 50 so I still class today's incident as falling over, not ' having a fall'. When does the latter come into play?!

My sympathies, and doesn't it feel like you are falling in slow motion. Like you should be able to stop yourself. Hope you are ok.

Early 40s fall over all the time.
I have a medical reason so it's always 'having a fall' it's the look on others ppls faces that makes it worse somehow, they often presume I'm drunk and don't help!

@Popfan ouch! Poor you. Watch out for soreness tomorrow. I've always been clumsy so this happens to me regularly. I have an instinct to get up and away as fast as possible, mostly because I'm embarrassed. It is horrible. I'm a decade older than you but have always done this - I'm a bit worried I will be entering "having a fall" territory sooner than I'd like!

Thank you, sorry to hear about those falling often, it really was a shock!
It really did feel like it was happening in slow motion, I knew I was going to end up on the floor but couldn't do anything about it.

So did I last night OP.
We are in an Airbnb and there is a step down to the bathroom. Totally missed it at 2 am and fell flat on my face. Never had such a shock in my life and I have a huge bruise on my arse.
I am early 30s…

Oh poor you. Hope you’re not feeling too sore. I’m glad some people stopped to help you.

Im a similar age. Took a flying sideways fall the other day in the cinema. Dashing out for a mid film toilet break with our yougest. Holding hands, cautious down the stairs and then running full pelt across the front to avoid disrupting people's view too much. Only for some reason there was an impossible to see (well for my older eyes as my child didn’t miss it!) single step halfway across to the exit. I went flying, felt like I was in the air for ages. Landed on my hip. Thankfully nothing more than bruising. Got up and hobbled out. No one asked if I was ok 😭. I couldn’t stop laughing. Definitely a nervous reaction. Then had to creep past the same miserable sods who’d not asked me if I was ok back to our seats. When I sat back down next to DH, he did wrap me up in a bear hug. He hadn’t seen it as he’d been busy watching the film.

I've been having some bad falls and the 9T last week said realistically I would be classed as to young for the falls team. Both the OT and GP think I am dyspraxic. Would make sense. But I still get so embarrassed.

Hope you are ok x

52 and absolutely panic when I trip over my own feet that someone will refer me to the falls team!

There’s a lot of balance exercises that you can do at home. I’ve been doing them at a local gym. I was surprised at how quickly I began to improve

I've been doing this but don't feel it's helping

think I'm dyspraxic as always been like this.

interested to know what exercises you do

@Popfan I hope you're okay and not achy tomorrow

Oh, I feel for you OP!

But we do reach a certain stage where people don't laugh when you stumble, but offer to help! I know it happened to me when I tripped going up some stairs. I didn't fall hard, and recovered quickly, but a young man asked if I was ok, and it was then I knew I had become 'a woman of a certain age'.

I'm 55 and determined I will be falling over not having a fall for a good few years yet I hope.

The last time I fell over was 25 years ago in marks and spencer. I was 9 months pregnant and wearing (stupidly) vertiginous heels.

My older sister falls over about once a month. Always has done. She’s been known to break bones. I do lots of balance training so it doesn’t come for me.

Oh poor you, hope it doesn't hurt too much tomorrow!

I have fallen in public several times and it haunts me, especially as I'm significantly overweight these days and it would not be an elegant fall. My most tragic stumble was private though, into a hotel en-suite - I was dying for the toilet after a long drive and had a nightmare with hotel parking, so by the time I got to my room I was desperate. I dumped my case and had already started taking down my jeans as I galloped for the bog, failing to notice the massive warning notice saying MIND THE STEP DOWN. I fell down the step at full speed and landed in a heap with my knickers round my knees. Thank God I didn't then pee myself, as much as that would have made the story funnier...

I fell over a few times when I was around 50/51. Twice in as many days. I felt like a block of flats tipping over and was convinced I must have damaged the ground.

Hope you're ok

I turned 40 in November and have fallen 3 times since!!

Wtf?

Balance and grip are the two things a physio told me they use as indicators as to what sort of old age someone is going to have. I’ve started CrossFit - I’m not the typical body shape or age! - I love it. My grip is stronger, my pelvic floor exists again and I’m working on flexibility still. Like pp, I’ve never been flexible or had much dexterity and always been a bit clumsy - but since starting CrossFit, I can put my sock on while standing on one leg and get up off the floor without using my hands. I’m aiming to be able to sit cross legged and get back up again to standing but I’m not sure that’s realistically possible!

N.B. I'm 50 so I still class today's incident as falling over, not ' having a fall'. When does the latter come into play?!

😆Sorry @Popfan I am not laughing at you falling as it can actually be an awful shock but this was my thought too. I am mid-40s and I wondered when we will start calling it "I had a fall".

Oh I've found my people...I fell last year dashing up busy London street...in my gym kit on way to physio!
Two girls in their 20's dashed to help me up and suggested maybe I should go and have a nice cup of tea....the shame!
I did not have a fall....I tripped over a badly placed kerb...could have happened to anyone

But definitely feel "a woman of a certain age"

We don't 'fall over' when we're over 50.
We 'have a fall'.
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“Having a fall” = over 70.

Any younger and you say “I fell over pissed.”

I was out with a friend and tripped getting onto the tube train. My friend and another kind person had to help me up. I felt absolutely stupid and was sure everyone was thinking ‘poor old lady’. I’ve had a bruise and a lump on my leg for a few weeks.

I tripped up the kerb; my face was only prevented from hitting the pavement by hitting the wall in front of me first. I was mortified. People stopped to help. At 66 it was very borderline - I'm pretty sure plenty of onlookers were sure I Had A Fall.

Especially mortifying as part of my role is helping up elderly people who have Had A Fall at home and can't get themselves up.

Today was my first day out, since being cleared from using my airboot ( surgery before Xmas) any slight incline has been my nemesis !