How often do you fall over?

[clairemcnam]

Just curious really. I have been surprised to the response about falling down stairs.
I fall over every few months, and always have. This ranges from tripping up and falling over on the pavement, to every few years falling all the way down stairs. I have been like this my whole life so I am not worried there is anything wrong. Just wondering if this is unusual?

All the time. Fell over the other day at work. I'm clumsy

Hypermobility + flat feet leads to frequent trips and falls, plus both ankles often twist and hit the pavement. I just shake it off and go unless it’s a proper sprain. General uncoordination means I’m also constantly bumping into things so always bruised somewhere!

Loads. In the last month fell going down on a climbing wall and fell up some stone steps.

I never fall over. I might occssionally trip over a bit of carpet or something but its only a stumble. I did fall down the stairs about 10 yrs ago.

That seems quite unusual.

I fall all the time always have done! I trip over my own feet at times I have fallen downstairs many times even broken bones!

I am concerned about falling so often as I get older.
My mum has always been very clumsy like me, and I know now she is old she is scared of walking on uneven ground. She fell over in the garden when we had that touch of nice weather. No big deal for me to do it, but it becomes a bigger deal as you get older.

I would definitely ask Dr to refer you for some tests. I've always been clumsy n fallen over, felt unbalanced etc but not even to the degree you're talking. Anyhow mine turned to out to be 'one leg is significantly longer than the other' 😱🙈🤣 but least I have a reason. It could be skeletal, muscular, brain, anything? Hope you get it sorted

As I said, I think it is dyspraxia that is undiagnosed. So just one of those things.

I go through phases of falling more often but probably once a month on average. I have hypermobile leg joints (my ankles are horrendous) and dyspraxia which really manifests spatially, especially my appalling lack of depth perception. The depth problem makes me very dangerous on stairs. I've had two falls that have completely wrecked my right foot due to stairs, including one fall on beautiful Cotswold stone steps because they were really long and shallow and I couldn't see where one ended. The NT joint it happened at has painted the step edges white since!

My ankles turn at the drop of a hat; uneven terrain, cracks in pavements, just putting my foot down wrong will do it because it throws my weight off. The worst was getting off a train with a huge gap. Put a foot down, over did it and luckily fell forward and onto a platform but was v shaken.

I never fall too badly, but they're fast, they're sudden and they hurt and I usually like a hand to try and get up again as one day I know I will have done some damage.

I'm dreadfully clumsy, but don't fall right over that often.

I used to drink a fair bit, and blamed the grog for my falling over, but was diagnosed with Meniere's in 2003, so maybe it wasn't that.

I'd fall over a lot less if a) the dog didn't splash water over half the kitchen floor when she drinks, b) we didn't have laminate flooring and c) I didn't wear crocs around the house. The combination of water, laminate and crocs (or flip-flops) is like black ice for slipperiness.

@clairemcnam When I'm older I plan to use a walking stick, or whatever I need. I've tested out a friend's, and I'm so much more stable with three points of contact instead of two. Im tempted to buy one now actually for the next time it snows...

All the time, I do have issues though. Biggest problem right now is my brain being convinced there is a step just outside the bathroom as I only recently moved.

Once every few years really. I trip occasionally but rarely have an actual fall where I hit the ground.

I'm spectacularly accident prone. TBH, it's because I'm always in a rush, multi-tasking and not paying enough attention to where I'm walking. Working in an environment where heels are expected but constantly having to keep pace with tall men on flats also doesn't help.

My highlights this year alone include dowsing myself in coffee from head to toe and tripping and falling, grabbing my boss' arm, taking him down with me and somehow managing to hurt not my own ankle but his.

Luckily, everyone around me takes it with a great deal of humour.

All the bloody time. My ‘weak ankles’ were the family joke, I’d be walking along and randomly turn my ankle and fall. I once rang a patient’s doorbell and when she answered I was flat on my face on her path! In fact I went down like a bag of hammers into my knees only yesterday. It was only in 2014 when DD was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos syndrome that it all made sense and now I have the same diagnosis. DD is worse than me though, she wears supportive ankle boots and has still managed a broken arm and a concussion from falling. Thank goodness we live in ground floor flat so no chance of falling down the stairs

I've always been clumsy. Spent a lot of time around horses so my fall rate is probably higher because of that! My legs are like a patchwork quilt with bruises, but it's more really poor spatial awareness, I walk into stuff/drop stuff/hit various parts of my body by misjudging space around me at least once a day, if not more. And it seems worse the more I concentrate! So I'll be walking under a low doorway for instance, taking care not to hit my head and catch my elbow on the frame instead........ I can't hold a tray of glasses without constantly watching them, my hands seem to follow my eyeline, so if someone behind me calls me and I turn my head to look - tray tips and all over the floor. I do get frustrated, but that's probably years of my mother yelling at me for being clumsy and that I need to be more careful and stop being a dolly daydream, and being a cack handed idiot (I know cack handed is sometimes used to describe someone left handed, but I'm right handed) I do find that if my period is due it's either worse, or if it's not, it pisses me off more so it's more noticeable!
I've failed my driving test 5 times - I think it's related.

Actually fall to the floor? Every 3 to 5 years maybe. Lots of near misses!

I’ve fallen a few times when out running, usually tripping over a kerb when I’m tired & can’t lift my leg high enough!

A few years ago, I turned my ankle out running, & did a full superman fall, right at a very busy roundabout at 8am. I injured both elbows, both knees, my hand & of course my ankle. Mortified!

Normal walking around, might trip over the pet gate, but otherwise, no falling.

I tripped over the vaccuum wire the other day but that was the first time in years, I can't remember the last time I fell over without anything being in my way.

Im generally considered to by ‘clumsy’ by family and friends, but the last time I actually fell over was approx 12 years ago when I was walking back from a lecture at uni (and managed to fracture my coccyx!).

I have hyper mobility issues but I reckon the last time I fell over I was about six years old .

I fall over quite a lot! Trip over, fall downstairs. I once tripped on the step outside my house and fell flat on my front on the pavement! Got my foot caught in the stair gate the other day and fell on the floor. Often it's because I'm rushing and trying to do too much at once.

Quite frequently due to disability. It’s a pain - literally.