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HELP!!! I RUPTURED MY SPLEEN

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DragonS
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Anyone have experience with this? Level 4 rupture non-surgical. Doc/Everything online says 3-6 months before returning to activity with no risk, that seems like overkill to me... but I'm not a doctor. Just wondering if anyone else has tried to return to snow sooner than advised with a similar injury & how it went
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7 years ago
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hi_vis360
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your doctor is a dumbass you don't need a spleen to live smh
7 years ago
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DirtYStylE
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No. There is not a way to make a spleen heal faster. You need to wait. Or risk blowing it up
7 years ago
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ParkRx
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Some things to consider:

"More than 90 percent of secondary splenic "ruptures" occur within 10 days following the initial trauma; most of the remainder occur within two weeks"

"Resumption of normal activities — Upon discharge, patients are typically restricted from participation in high-risk activities such as skiing, mountain biking, skydiving, wrestling, contact sports, military combat, and vigorous sexual intercourse for a period of up to three months. While there are no clinical studies to support this duration, one assumes that repeat trauma to the fragile, healing spleen could lead to re-injury [54]. In one retrospective review, healing was demonstrated radiographically within two months of injury in 80 percent of patients; however, grade V injuries were excluded in this study."

This paper is pretty lit:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1097/01.ta.0000187652.55405.73
7 years ago
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vibecheck
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7 years ago
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SpleenBoi
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Ruptured my spleen two seasons ago. Took me about 4 months to be back on the snow with no risk. I was advised to do basically nothing, as even a small impact in the area around your spleen can re-rupture it pretty easily(especially right after it happened). Wrap yourself up in bubble-wrap until then
7 years ago
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Sharko
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Do not ask for medical advice from stoned teens on NS. Talk to your doctor.
7 years ago
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MFZOREN
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SharkoDo not ask for medical advice from stoned teens on NS. Talk to your doctor.


Im not even stoned right now!
7 years ago
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Sharko
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sauceboss420Im not even stoned right now!

Then you're doing it wrong
7 years ago
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MFZOREN
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SharkoThen you're doing it wrong


Bro if I could be stoned right now I would be stoned right now. Its not by choice, I swear.
7 years ago
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HuumeHippi
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sauceboss420Bro if I could be stoned right now I would be stoned right now. Its not by choice, I swear.

Is there a time not to be stoned?
7 years ago
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MFZOREN
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HuumeHippiIs there a time not to be stoned?


When you are getting drug tested by the state of colorado.
7 years ago
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HypeBeast
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Op how stupid are you? Did your doctors fail to explain the seriousness of a ruptured speen and the medical emergency if it happens again? Do you want to die? Listen to your doctors and quit being like every other moron in America who thinks an internet forum or social media is a better source of information.
7 years ago
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Session
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Gets certified medical advice. Goes to forum full on not-doctors for clarification.
7 years ago
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DragonS
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runforlove2018Op how stupid are you? Did your doctors fail to explain the seriousness of a ruptured speen and the medical emergency if it happens again? Do you want to die? Listen to your doctors and quit being like every other moron in America who thinks an internet forum or social media is a better source of information.
Yeah bruh I know the risk lol. already went thru it once... I ski at a small resort with a top ranked medical facility 30 minutes down the road so I'm not really worried about dying. STOP BEING MEAN 2 ME I JUST WANNA SKI:(
7 years ago
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HypeBeast
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DragonSYeah bruh I know the risk lol. already went thru it once... I ski at a small resort with a top ranked medical facility 30 minutes down the road


This literally means nothing. Don't be stupid man
7 years ago
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freestyler540
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SessionGets certified medical advice. Goes to forum full on not-doctors for clarification.

Proceeds to be a dick to everyone repeating the same advice given by the physician
7 years ago
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Sharko
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runforlove2018Listen to your doctors and quit being like every other moron in America who thinks an internet forum or social media is a better source of information.


Thank you for saying this.
7 years ago
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Session
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DragonSYeah bruh I know the risk lol. already went thru it once... I ski at a small resort with a top ranked medical facility 30 minutes down the road so I'm not really worried about dying. STOP BEING MEAN 2 ME I JUST WANNA SKI:(


Skiing isn't going anywhere.
7 years ago
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VT_scratch
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Damn that sucks. One of my best friends ate it hard onto a cat-track at whistler in 2011 and ruptured his spleen. He didn't really know and then the pain kept getting worse and he went to ski patrol. Long story short he ended up getting rushed from Whis to a hospital in vancouver as his spleen was emptying blood into his stomach, which then expanded so much it looked like he was preggo. They cut him open last min, blood everywhere, and he's very lucky he's alive today. Obviously they removed his spleen and I believe he has to be very careful with infections and his immune system as the spleen does a good job of cleaning out toxins from your body? I may be slightly off on that last part. But yeah intense stuff, he's pretty scarred from that situation to this day.
7 years ago
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DragonS
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VT_scratchDamn that sucks. One of my best friends ate it hard onto a cat-track at whistler in 2011 and ruptured his spleen. He didn't really know and then the pain kept getting worse and he went to ski patrol. Long story short he ended up getting rushed from Whis to a hospital in vancouver as his spleen was emptying blood into his stomach, which then expanded so much it looked like he was preggo. They cut him open last min, blood everywhere, and he's very lucky he's alive today. Obviously they removed his spleen and I believe he has to be very careful with infections and his immune system as the spleen does a good job of cleaning out toxins from your body? I may be slightly off on that last part. But yeah intense stuff, he's pretty scarred from that situation to this day.


damn

**This post was edited on Jan 28th 2019 at 11:33:58am
7 years ago
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theabortionator
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SharkoDo not ask for medical advice from stoned teens on NS. Talk to your doctor.


Just reminded me that I'm way to sober to try and give medical advice on the internet.
7 years ago
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HaydenB
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This is why you should use protection smh
7 years ago
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Sharko
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theabortionatorJust reminded me that I'm way to sober to try and give medical advice on the internet.

Lolz
7 years ago
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AbiH
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DragonSAnyone have experience with this? Level 4 rupture non-surgical. Doc/Everything online says 3-6 months before returning to activity with no risk, that seems like overkill to me... but I'm not a doctor. Just wondering if anyone else has tried to return to snow sooner than advised with a similar injury & how it went

Listen to your doctor, ruptured spleen is no joke, if you reinjure yourself there is a very very good chance that you’ll bleed to death internally before they can do anything about it... The risk isn’t worth it.

Not to mention if they throw you in a heli those rides are 15k and up...
7 years ago
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HypeBeast
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Lol OP is down voting every rational response
7 years ago
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DragonS
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L

**This post was edited on Jan 28th 2019 at 11:35:39am
7 years ago
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AbiH
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NOT TO MENTION
if you ruptured your spleen
Then you go and slice your arm open and you start to bleed to death you don’t have any back up red blood cells to help replenish what you’ve lost
7 years ago
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hi_vis360
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AbiHNOT TO MENTION
if you ruptured your spleen
Then you go and slice your arm open and you start to bleed to death you don’t have any back up red blood cells to help replenish what you’ve lost


LIES the spleen doesn't exist. Have you ever seen a spleen? No! of course not, because it was invented by doctors who are in league with vail yellow jackets and new wavers to stop people from throwing down. Stay woke!
7 years ago
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AbiH
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pinkcamo1000LIES the spleen doesn't exist. Have you ever seen a spleen? No! of course not, because it was invented by doctors who are in league with vail yellow jackets and new wavers to stop people from throwing down. Stay woke!


HEY that’s a secret!!!
7 years ago
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