Gardening Injury ??

NewBoy2

I spent 4 weeks at about 3 or 4 hours a day converting my plot to 4 foot beds and finished on the Thursday. 
At 4.00am next morning I woke up with a badly swollen right foot and very painful and unable to walk on it

That was 6 days ago and I have spent the last 2 days boringly lieing in bed abd it seems that the swelling is going down

? Anyone else suffered in this way Friends  

Blue Onion

Did you go to the GP, and get checked for Deep Vein Thrombosis or something else?  It seems strange that you had no issues for four weeks, to suddenly having a badly swollen foot.  It would be worth getting checked out.  

I've got plenty of garden pains.. but it's very cause/effect.  Lots of digging sets up the newly developed elbow issue I acquired over the winter while doing lots of knitting (knitting injury?!), fine weeding sets off the use-triggered arthritis I've developed in my fingers, etc.  And I'm only a millennial!  

Pauline 7

I would get it looked at.  Either GP,   Pharmacist or Walk in Centre. It may be nothing, but it may not.  Better to be safe than sorry. 

Dave Humby

Pauline 7 said:

I would get it looked at.  Either GP,   Pharmacist or Walk in Centre. It may be nothing, but it may not.  Better to be safe than sorry. 

That was cruel Pauline 

Pauline 7

Dave Humby said:

Pauline 7 said:

I would get it looked at.  Either GP,   Pharmacist or Walk in Centre. It may be nothing, but it may not.  Better to be safe than sorry. 

That was cruel Pauline 

I'm not with it tonight. ......It wasn't meant to be cruel 

wild edges

Last winter I moved a few tons of large stones by hand up the stairs into my first floor level garden to build a retaining wall. I found one rock that looked perfect to make a seat on top of the wall but it weighed around 50kgs I estimate and I couldn't get it up into my truck let alone into the garden. It took me a few months to gather and move all the rocks and I really wanted that 50kg rock as a feature. I couldn't lift it when I started but at the end I'd got a lot fitter and managed to get it up there. I spend the next few weeks convinced I'd given myself a hernia and I think I tore some cartilage in my ribs too. I've probably sat on it twice since. The pigeons spend more time on it than I do.

pansyface

I did the old stand on a rake trick when I was about eight. 
The only response from my dear mother was “You’ll not do that again”.

And she was right.

Fire Lily

Do one umbilical hernia count? As I run a farm, one would think I got it shifting heavy bags or animals, but no. Last year when cutting my lawn, I got a horrible pain in my abdomen. Laid down thinking I was dying or something, I felt through my abdomen with my hand and felt a big lump. In my family, we die from cancer, so that was my first thought, but suddenly, the lump just slid back and I realized what it was. 

Still have it, as I have a heart problem, the doctors don't want to surgicaly remove it until they have to do something else surgicaly. 

NewBoy2

Rang the docs and she said its probably Gout and I need a blood test next Tuesday so thanks for your advice
Still did 2 hours watering and planted 3 courgettes...............Allotmenteers dont feel pain......oh yes we do !!!

Blue Onion

Glad to know you're alive.. I was starting to worry about you.