What has been your strangest injury? (Warning! Thread contains gory images)

[Pointlessfact]

I would when I was about 8 , being on the middle of a slide and falling off it , injuring my back

Concussion from doing Strip the Willow whilst under the influence of alcohol. My equally drunk partner swung me into a concrete pillar.

A very bruised backside from getting in a lift whilst on roller skates.

Had a infected in grown hair cut out on the top of my arse crack, the hole was about 3 inches wide and about 2 inches deep, the worst bit was the first week of it being cut out, Had to go to walk in centre everyday to have it packed out, cried like a baby the first 4 days I had it done

Oooh I love Strip the Willow Dinosaur!

Riding my chopper, chain fell off, as usual, went over the handlebars, snapped my front tooth in half. A week later exactly, same thing, but snapped my ulna and gashed open the back of my leg nearly to the Achilles’ tendon. Right outside the doctor’s house. His very gorgeous son helped me up and home.

@Adrianflank.. I've seen something very similar on TV. Did you go on embarrassing bodies by any chance?

Playing witches at grandmas using feather duster as broom stick.
Slipped on edge of tiled hearth and managed to impale myself on stick of duster. In my fanjo. Ouch.

Apparently I wee'd on the A & E doctor who examined my injury.

Fell out of a car.

Dropped Dyson on head.

Numerous burns, scalds and electrocutions.

You know the normal injuries of life.

Burned the hell out of my mouth absentmindedly tasting sugar I had just caramalized for crème brûlée.

Thank god I don’t have a blow torch in the kitchen.

Being smacked in the mouth by the head of a golf club as DH swung it round his head in the lounge for some unknown reason. It was one you assembled and the actual putter part came away. Oh and I was 38 weeks pregnant walking around like I'd been in a fight.

adrianflank that’s called a pilonidal sinus, I had it too! It’s quite common. Horrible healing process.

The weirdest injury I’ve done to myself was when the washing line sprang back at me while I was pegging out laundry and hit me straight in the eye. Was blinded for a while.

No I wasn't on embarrassing bodies!

@fassone, that the one, couldn't remember the name of it! It all happened in less than a week, had back pain, got my ex to have a look, told me I had a small hole, went to the GPS, signed me off for light duties for 2 months, gave me antibiotics, 3 days later I was in a&e

Smashed up my coccyx and sacrum when I was 13 on the metal bar of a trampoline in a friend's back garden

Ended up having my entire coccyx surgically removed when I was 21

36 now and have chronic pain due to my sacral stump being prominent and sitting on sharp bone, and ligament / nerve damage. Take high doses of opioids under the care of a pain consultant

Injury was in the days before health and safety - nowadays trampolines have padding and netting around them. Not the case in 1994!

Brigante

I scalded my face with very hot steam by biting into a heated up pita bread

* adrianflank that’s called a pilonidal sinus, I had it too! It’s quite common. Horrible healing process.*

Me too! But once it was cut out I didn't have to go back for further treatment. I do remember sitting down very gingerly for a while though!

My physio (who specialises in pelvic pain) asked me if I would go on TV because Dr Christian of Embarrassing Bodies fame had a new TV show and was looking for complex cases to feature. Needless to say I declined to go on telly to talk about my broken bum and vag of steel (hypertonic pelvic floor).

I also have my coccyx in a jar. They let me keep it. Never be allowed to take a chunk of your spine home now!

Got my nose broken ... dancing salsa.

Got my big toenail completely ripped off ... dancing salsa.

Got hit in the mouth and my top lip still has a load of broken blood vessels as a result some 15 years later ... dancing salsa.

Got a broken foot .... dancing salsa.

@blueskypink you didn't have to have it packed out, first 2 weeks I was down the walk in centre everyday, then every other day for 5 weeks

I broke my fourth metacarpal plunging the bathroom sink.Vigourously.

I shattered the bones on my second finger on the edge of a swing door...the finger bent straight back at force as I hit it straight on instead of grabbing it. Couldn't see properly because of a migraine aura.

I broke my toe turning in the swimming pool.

I was tickling my 4yo when my fingernail caught her lip and left a teeny tiny weeny scratch. She hardly noticed. Obviously we didn't bother seeking medical treatment, and it healed up quickly. But it left a visible scar which she still has 14 years later.

Stuck a garden fork through my big toe when I was little 'helping' our neighbours dig their garden.
Fell out of the loft and broke the loft ladder, ended up with a massive bruise on my arse cheek. serves me right for trying to hear my sisters secret meeting
Broke a toe changing a light bulb.

Sprained my ankle falling into a ditch full of snow.

mamahanji out of interest had you taken an antibiotic called Cipro prior to tearing your rotator cuff?

When I was 9 I visited a friend who had cartwheeled through a glass window resulting in stitches in her knee. I am very squeamish and fainted when she showed me, fell backwards onto an old typewriter and cut the back of my head open on the metal handle...requiring 7 stitches. Fun.

Knelt down and discovered half of the previously dropped needle- the other half went into my knee and took a couple of hours to remove a week later when I finally went to a&e.

Are you my sister she did exactly that at 10yrs old when she was counting her sixpence after the whit walks

Burnt my toes steam-mopping the kitchen in flip-flops

Fell off a rope swing, gave myself concussion & short-term memory loss for about 8 hours

Broke my arm falling over a 5 year old

Broke my toe & ripped off the nail walking into a fridge

@Adrianflank you have my sympathy, I did a stint working in operating theatres and nothing elicited sympathy from the hardened theatre staff quite like pilonidal cysts, they are horrible

I was concentrating on waving goodbye to a friend and walked into a lampost. I got a goose egg on my forehead, a cut right by the corner of my eye, a nosebleed and a yelling at from my dm who had seen the whole thing. i should have looked where I was going apparantly.

Tripped over whilst carrying a load of clean washing and didn't put my hands down to break my fall. I hit my face on a pile of tiles (bathroom being refurbed) chipped my tooth and got a huge shiner which lastest for weeks.

Tipped a mug of freshly made black coffee into my lap, I couldn't wear any knickers for over a week.