I recently fell heavily against a door handle in my apartment. Bruised ribs :(

On my experience, you can expect...

1 day: completely immobile
1 week: taking the doctor's megapainkiller tablets and no improvement
2 weeks: taking the doctor's megapainkiller tablets and a wonderful improvement
3 weeks: with a little pain doing everything you do and still taking paracetamol
4 weeks: not taking paracetamol but still feeling uncomfortable (like someone is standing on your chest all the time)
5 weeks: you can forget taking the paracetamol but now and again you get a twinge
6 weeks: back to normal :) Normal service resumed :)


Posted By PB on October 19, 2004 at 15:03:33:

In Reply to: bruised ribs posted by d.m. roberson on December 24, 2003 at 19:52:37:

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