#joint subluxation

[yaboy-miz]

It’s always a funny feeling when you’re just vibing and a joint pops so loud that it echoes

Or when you stand up and crack your back only to realize that you’ve partially dislocated your hip and cracking your back put it back into place

That second one may sound extremely specific but I’ll be honest this is a regular occurrence for me to the point where if my hip feels weird I’ll stand up and move as if to crack my back to make sure my hip is in place

[sebs-out-of-spoons]

i’m going wheelchair/cane shopping tomorrow at a local thrift store, so excited, WISH ME LUCK EVERYONE :3

[justaminnow]

I think I misunderstood the song because my leg bone is NOT connected to my hip bone.

[alexei-home-fromthewar-at-last]

Have I ever told you how much my joints SUCK?

[gotyouanyway]

the awesome thing is you can have a hypermobility disorder and your body will slowly deteriorate as it tries to keep your skeleton together for 26 years causing you infinite tiny issues that aren't that serious on their own but together it all sucks really bad and makes life pretty difficult BUT you can have this and not have it so bad that you ever actually dislocate anything or get any major injuries to your knowledge so doctors don't give a fuck and you're stuck constantly doubting yourself and comparing yourself to others who Really have a disorder that causes them Real problems and-

[joint-hurty-juice]

Disease that makes you stand in a jaunty contrapposto

[milkweedman]

Too sick to do pretty much anything but also bored as hell. Been spinning the southdown flax blend on my espinner cause why not, nobody has ordered any and I can make more if they did.

It's a very interesting spin. I spun a sample before I put it up for sale to make sure it wasn't awful, which it's not; but it is difficult. Not sure I would have been able to spin it before I learnt how to spin flax. You gotta keep an eye on both components as you work, making sure you're not leaving the southdown behind or letting the flax bunch up. It's easy once you are used to it, but still different.

The espinner I got working a little better by seating the drive band correctly. Still not a fan of the fact that I'm not directly in control of the speed... on a wheel or spindle I often want to slow down or stop but it's a pain on the espinner and it leads to uneven yarn. These things are weird.

Anyway. Dont know what I'll do with it but it's nice to spin again. Have been having trouble using my supported spindles bc of my shoulders. I know there's a way to lay down where you can spin supported without shoulder pain; the issue is I can't lay in one position for very long bc then everything else hurts. And of course supported is what i switched to after wheel spinning was too painful, which i got into because drop spindling was too painful. Can you tell how upset I am that spinning is being slowly taken from me. Haha. Anyway. Glad for the espinner in this regard.

[destroyingangelneveragod]

hey fuckers who cursed my bones and tissues to be all wobbly

[tumble-tv]

[alxor-of-hellsite]

Does anyone have tips to help with subluxation? My hips especially have been refusing to stay put.

[stellaltumi]

my hip has been repeatedly subluxing and popping all week and it needs to cut it out I am 20 bro

[sebs-out-of-spoons]

i’m so excited for my forearm crutches to arrive !!!! we don’t yet have the shipping info for em, but i’m so so excited !!! :DD

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Pretty sure I subluxed my hip in my sleep last night so we’re having a “fun” (not really) time out here

[chronicallyconfuddled]

Do able-bodied people daydream about using a wheelchair

[crimeronan]

forgot i very wisely put my braces on because i'm busing all over town today doing pre-storm errands & i had a moment of being like "wow, weird, the bus drivers are being EXTRA nice to me..... with all the other passengers they seem to be in a hurry but for me they keep waiting to move til i fully take my seat... am i limping really badly today or something??"

and then i looked down at my bondage geared legs and was like oh. right.

girl. you are crippled.

[perplexingluciddreams]

keep waking up with very very sore wrists and hands and fingers.

i must get in strange positions as i sleep (due to hypotonia and hypermobility combination). and then wake up very sore. the left is always worse, of course.

many joints of mine are loose and "wiggly". especially small joints like fingers and wrists.

i feel the bones have too much space between each other. if i pull on a finger or intertwine my fingers and pull on my whole hand, i can pull the bones apart easily with barely any force. i can twist/pull/bend my fingers in ways that they shouldn't, because the bones are so far apart that it allows me to essentially deliberately sublux it (i think??).

and i feel the bones move around as i move my hands. if i grip something too hard, several fingers will simply stop being in the right place. my wrists and fingers make many crunching clicking popping noises.

my hands are the body part i use most and rely on most. for everything, including majority of my communication. i am nonverbal - i need my hands. signing, typing, writing, gesturing, AAC device. and other general things like using phone and laptop. and stimming.

so wrist pain is a real fucking annoyance.

and just having to pull on my hand or fingers to "realign" all the tiny wee bones correctly, or grab my wrist and squeeze a certain way to make it "click in"... that is not fun. i have to do it more and more often, many times a day now.

:/