Surfing Injury

[element303]

hey guys. first of all hola from puerto rico. it's the first time i have been thinking about registering in a forum about surfing.

i have been surfing for 1,5 years now since i moved to the caribbean from europe and i love it so much. not only because im a nature lover, especially the ocean, i get bored really fast with everything in life and here i got years of learning and getting better before i can even think about to get bored of it.

well. i started with boogieboard but i felt the need to stand up very fast which is why i bought a longboard. im one of those people that like to learn everything by trying and so i did it. just took me a few weeks and i am very comfortable already and got balance and all that.

now the reason why i write here is because even with trying to be not too careless about my safety, i finally got hurt. and it hurts bad..

i tried to avoid the surf spots with reef just 1-3 feets below the water surface but i like bigger waves. i mostly surf on a spot where big waves come in from the open ocean and with really powerful waves here in PR but with no reef in some places.

the last time i surfed like 3-4 days ago i just wanted to get back to the shore and tried to get one more good wave, but got fleshin' up. it was wave closer to the shore, which i usually dont take. im one of those people that wait more far out there for bigger waves to ride longer on it.

anyways. i got into the tube and got twisted really bad and fast and i dont even remember exactly what happend beside that i am sure i hit the side of my chest to the ground and that the ground was no sand but a rock. i also cut my finger and saw a few birds so i forgot about my chest. the other thing was that i went surfing with a nerve squeezed in my arm/shoulder so i thought the pain is still from that.

2 days later i realized that i must have hurt something deeper inside my body. it felt like a got a big punch in my side but with nothing like bruses to see. so i thought, well maybe its just from the hit and it will hurt a day or two. but now 4 days passed and every day the pain get stronger. i can only breathe about 30% and get the first pain , also when i move, get up or down and everything else i do, but the worst is that i cant LIE. this is really exhausting but if you cant sleep without having 10 times more pain just from lying, its hell.

many will think: why he don't jsut go to a doctor. well first of all i dont like doctors very much, which have more to do with my personal opinion on billion dollar industry with medicine and chemicals than with doctors itself. but i was hoping if somebody could tell me whaty it might me. it can only be a injury on a muscle or my lung. i dont think anything else is in the area. its even hard to locate the position where the pain comes from but it is somewhere below my rips, below my shoulders and the side of my body.

i usually wait all things out but i start to get a little worried this time especially because sleeping is a nightmare right now..

thanks for the answers and greetings from san juan. and sorry for my english, its not my first language.

chris

[PredationSA]

Cracked rib? I'd imagine you'd have a lot of bruising but I'm not a doctor so i can't say if it's possible without bruising. No matter how badly you hate the medical industry i think pretty much everyone is going to suggest to go see a doctor. If it's just like a cut or something then i can understand the "I'm going to do it myself mentality" but something inside of you being broken is not something i want to just let chance deal with.

[naniekso]

if its a broken rib it will heal possibly not in the correct form that was intended. thats why people use casts and stents and such. to make sure the bone heals properly without much movement. Surface damage is nothing to see the doctor for, internal damage will lead to problems that could lead to more SEVERE problems. i knew a guy who broke his finger, didn't take to the doc and now he can't bend it all the way

dont' see a doctor, see a radiologist *(x-ray people)

[drowningbitbybit]

It sounds like one of your vertebrosternal ribs has a compound fracture and has punctured the pneumothoracic lining, leading to pleural edema, the consequences of which are, most likely, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!! *







* You can believe this, or you can stop being an idiot and asking medical questions on internet forums, and go and see a doctor who knows what they're talking about.

[Forage]

Yea, probably best to just leave it alone. You might die, but at least you'll be sticking it to the pharmaceutical industry.

[esonscar]

Go see a doc or accept this will take weeks, maybe monthe to get better.

[Sar]

It sounds like one of your vertebrosternal ribs has a compound fracture and has punctured the pneumothoracic lining, leading to pleural edema, the consequences of which are, most likely, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!! *







* You can believe this, or you can stop being an idiot and asking medical questions on internet forums, and go and see a doctor who knows what they're talking about.

[Sar]

[.....]many will think: why he don't jsut go to a doctor. well first of all i dont like doctors very much, which have more to do with my personal opinion on billion dollar industry with medicine and chemicals than with doctors itself. but i was hoping if somebody could tell me whaty it might me. it can only be a injury on a muscle or my lung. i dont think anything else is in the area. its even hard to locate the position where the pain comes from but it is somewhere below my rips, below my shoulders and the side of my body.

i usually wait all things out but i start to get a little worried this time especially because sleeping is a nightmare right now..

thanks for the answers and greetings from san juan. and sorry for my english, its not my first language.

chris

your english is perfectly easy to understand so I hope you get this english term:

"cutting your nose off to spite your face" - go see a doc, you're only hurting yourself by not doing so.

Also, the reason its difficult to locate the pain is because your suffering from 'referal pain', the doc will should be able to find root cause of the problem if they make a thorough examination.

[element303]

hey guys. thanks for all the answers. after i wrote that post it was still bad for 2 days but then i felt that it gets better really fast. i usually have an extremely fast healing but in this case i was worried cause i even had problems breathing. now its completely gone and i was back surfing again with storm monster waves woohoo. i gonna go again right now

thank you all. IM ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha

[esonscar]

Yeah, deffo go see a doc, this ain't nomal !