To ask what’s the most ridiculous injury you’ve given yourself?

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I’ll start… 3 days ago I took a chunk out of my thumb whilst putting my socks on because I had a really rough toenail I hadn’t noticed. It’s like a paper cut but worse! Still hurts, still stings with everything that touches it 3 days on 😭. Please make me feel better….

2 days ago. Sitting at a computer at work. Moved my foot slightly. Sudden searing pain in my ankle. Made me feel sick and I couldn't stand at first. It kind of felt like it needed to click, but way worse.
Managed to get the pain under control with an ice pack and ibuprofen and could walk but it was very painful and swollen. My job involves a fair amount of walking so I was hobbeling around all day on Sunday and yesterday. I'm off today but its still sore and swollen.
I don't get it. I was just... sitting 😑

I have loads but a few - slipped on water in the kitchen damaging my knee, cracked a rib when I tripped over a kerb and just this morning whilst on holiday I’ve managed to trip and hurt my knee, chip a tooth and take a chunk out of my lip. Husband has also managed to sprain his shoulder whilst wiping after the toilet and someone we know dislocated a finger whilst doing up their trousers!

I was bending down to get my hand bag and i split my lip on the table.

Slipped on greasy floor plates when volunteering in a ships engine room went down sideways between the engines - which was good

What wasnt good was that my ribs crashed into a metal mop bucket

That hurt!

I had concussion and some spectacular bruises after walking (quite fast!) into the lights in an operating theatre once. Now plenty of theatre staff bang their heads on the lights from time to time but what made my incident so ridiculous is that I'm under 5ft tall and hence not really entitled to bash my head on anything!

I’ve done that!! It felt like a Tom and Jerry moment!! 😂 It was worse as I wear glasses so smacked my glasses into my face!

Saw this comment after I made mine! 😂

I had been swimming with my older sister. I was about 4 I had my favourite dress on. We were in the backyard our brother was in the kitchen laughing at us refusing to let us in. So my sister got me to climb through the living room window. Was the old sash type windows that pushed up from the bottom.

But our old broken toilet was underneath the window. Unfortunately when trying to climb in. I fell on the toilet and cut my backside open. I remember running up and down the yard screaming and hitting my sister on the way past. I don’t remember where our mum was but our next door neighbour took us on the bus to the hospital to get stitched up. Why are brothers so annoying?🤣🤣🤣

I’ve done this too! Fortunately it was only a small one but it bloody hurt.

Accidentally ironed my leg. And more than once too!

I have a few.....
I did the rake thing as a child, blood everywhere.

As a teenager I once put my hand full on the iron to see if was hot. It was, my dm was ironing at the time.

A few months before xh and I got married, I was dropping dd to the child minder and I was in a rush. I bent into the car to get her bag, misjudged where the door was and practically knocked myself out bashing my head on the corner of the door. I ended up with concussion, a whiplash type neck injury and stitches.

I also tore my meniscus getting into my car! I was coming out of work, it was dark and raining and I was the last one out so had to lock up. Again. I had a Mini at the time, so swung my bags into the passenger seat and twisted my knee. It was excruciating!

Snapped a tendon on my 2nd finger and was in a splint for 6 weeks.

I was making the bed…

That was me with the lift doors in a department store. I was about 7. Had to wait for a man with a key. Once she realised the lift wasn't going to move and decapitate me DM just stood there pissing herself laughing. I was mortified, and apparently the angry head of a 7 year old is very funny.

Not sure if this meets the "given yourself" rule, but I was sitting in an armchair at a friend's party when a large loudspeaker fell off the shelf above my head and gashed my head open.

Friend's mother had gone out for the evening and said she could "have a few friends round". The poor woman came home to find about 50 17-18 year olds, all pissed, blood all over her carpets and me sitting in her kitchen while my head bled into her sink.

The friend who'd dropped her off drove me to the hospital, where I had 12 stitches in my head, and was kind enough to drive me home afterwards, which was 15 miles in the opposite direction.

It was Christmas Eve, and I had concussion all over Christmas.

Age 6, insisted on going down a slide face down and head first. My parents had already told me I'd land on my chin and hurt myself...... I I just couldn't take their word for it.

A couple of years ago, a toilet cubicle door fell off its hinges and landed on my big toe. Fractured it.

And around the same time as the toilet cubicle door incident, I threw a paper towel
Into a pedal bin behind a toilet. As it was a pedal bin, I had to open it with one foot and throw at the same time. That action gave me agonising pain in my knee and I couldn't put any weight on it at all. Had to go to A&E. The orthopaedic surgeon I saw was not surprised that action caused an injury. I still don't really get it.

Gave myself a back eye trying to remove the hose from the hoover.

Two of my fingers got crushed when I was bitten by a pig thirty years ago. I still don't have full movement in one of them.

I split my top lip open when the bungee rope I was trying to stretch over something sprang out of my hand, and the hook bust my lip open. I still have the scar.

Another time I had climbed across two dining chairs to reach something high up in a corner. On my way back down the second chair had moved or been moved, can't remember why, but imagine stepping off a dining chair into nothingness. I fell hard on my hand, dislocating and busting my finger open (you could see the yellow fatty tissue). DH was at work so I dashed next door dripping blood on my way. Our neighbour drove me to the Minor Injuries Unit and stayed with me till DH got out of work and drove to meet me there. Everybody needs good neighbours...

Was putting on my trainers and went over on my ankle. Broke it spectacularly and needed surgery to fix it.

Apparently in uk casualty ( report bbc 2001 )

3,421 people are injured annually in accidents involving clothes baskets.

So you def not alone!

This made me feel funny

Mine always involve the stairs.

My first I missed the last step and somehow headbutted the wall in front. Spectacular egg on my head and concussion, I couldn’t bring myself to tell work what I’d done so I cut in a fringe to hide the egg!

second, taking hot tea up for me and DH, my foot got caught in my baggy pyjama bottoms, tripped up the step, bottoms fell down, burned my arms and covered the stairs, landing and walls in tea! My daughter came running out to see my bare bottom, I was so embarrassed

Sorry but the beard…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Tbf this whole thread is Wince Central!

I have a strange phobia of people hurting their fingers lol otherwise I’d have been a nurse 😂😂