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Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Add torn ribcage cartilage to the list. I will never, ever again make fun of a ballplayer for going on the DL with a rib issue. I was working out and felt this sort of electric shockwave of pain across my back. I thought it was a spasm since it was a yoga posture, so I went for chiropractic treatment. The chiro sucked. Didn't listen to my symptoms. He twisted me, the cartilage really tore, and it was just agony.



For weeks, it was knee-buckling pain, the sort that just drops you in your tracks, whenever I tweaked it. I had to sleep leaning on a 60-degree foam wedge, which is like sleeping on an airplane. I was gradually able to go back to a flat position. Took several months to heal.

Wow! way to go reviving a dead thread!

In April 2020 (34 yo), due to Crohns Disease, my small intestine ruptured while I was out on a walk. I vomited and then my body was on fire. This was the closest I've ever been to crawling home. I would walk 100+ feet and then stop for rest. I got home and told my wife to call 911(9 PM). My wife asked me if she could drive me herself. I told her no, something was very very wrong. I lost control of my bowels and sat on the toilet. Paramedics arrive and find me on the toilet (embarassing), and they tell me I'm hyperventilating and I should breathe deep (infuriating) and I kept telling them I have Crohns, this is Crohns related. I get to the hospital and my stomach muscles are at full flex, and feel like that for a long time. I keep asking for muscle relaxers. MRI shows a vitamin is stuck in my intestine and they are gonna give me steroids to push it through (5 AM). At 9 AM the muscle relaxers are working and I feel fine! I'm up and walking around the hospital wing. new Dr's arrive and tell me they misdiagnosed me and my small intestine has ruptured and giving me steroids was a poor decision. They shoved a NG tube down my nose to pump my stomach. I was life flighted to Seattle Swedish Hospital and they cut out 5 ft of intestines.

My new Crohns specialist told me she would never believe a word I said about my stomach ills, because my pain tolerance was too high if muscle relaxers were all that I needed to feel good again after my guts exploded. So now my consequence is lots of colonoscopies.

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