Re: Re: Clumsy? ** falling

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This site has so much activity I can't possibly read each one thoroughly. I

just saw a couple posts about clumsy. I had intended to make a post here but I

guess intended to was all.

Not yet diagnosed but it will probably be lupus and/or sclera. The last 3

months or so I have fallen 4 times. 2 were insignificant 2 I went to ER to

check for broken ribs and one I cracked the sacrum. So far no hip fracture and

I am looking for answers as to why I am falling. Could this be natural crap

caused by the autoimmune problem. I had not really considered that.

I like your names, and in fact I have been using some of them. Here is the

question in my mind. I don't think vertigo nor dizziness but what does that?

My walk seems perfectly normal with no problems. I can walk at a normal pace

with a normal gate. Suddenly I loose my balance or something and fall. Other

times I tip over. The latest fall I was outside on the cement driveway. There

was nothing there to cause me to trip. Anyway it was like a tripped and one

knee hit the cement hard. Then I tipped and landed on my head. How could I

possibly fall while standing on a flat surface and land on my head???

I work full time in our business and though I am mostly inside I move around a

lot in the course of the day. A walker just would not work. The fall that I

fractured the sacrum really messed me up and for several days I moved any with

great difficulty and sometimes needed help to rise from sitting. If I squat

like I do to look in a lower file drawer I could not get up at all and yet many

times I did it without thinking. I used a cane for several days and exercised

to build my strength back up. But, as I got better the cane became difficult to

keep up with. I move too frequently.

I think I MUST do something to keep from falling. And what is it called when

you just suddenly fall? A tightrope walker falls by just loosing balance. I

think that is the way it is with me. Reading these posts has made me think it

is the disease.

Betty

[ ] Re: Clumsy?

I think it's the disease that does it...I've been known to fall over

while just standing there. It's happened so often I've made

distinguishing definitions for it...if I'm walking around and it

happens it's 'falling down'. If I'm just standing there and keel

over, it's 'tipping over'. Kind of like cow tipping without the

tipper. But it's ok, I've found plenty of things to do while I'm on

the floor...never has the space under my bed been so dust bunny-free!

And there's always a cat or dog to snuggle with down there. I can

tell my family when it's time to replace their shoelaces. Sometimes I

fall out in the yard. Guess I'm just trying to bloom where I'm

planted!

>

> I drop things all the time. Sometimes, when I get off balance, my

brain

> isn't quick enough to communicate which muscles to use and I end up

falling,

> usually in slow motion. Is it the RA or the strong meds we are on?