Had a hard fall today arms extended over head and onto my left side, as a result pretty winded and coughed and spluttered up a bit of blood. Wasn't really in any particular pain afterwards and even considered kiting on, but as I has no knowledge about the subject I decided it was in my best interest to head in and do a bit of research.

Haven't yielded much as most cases involve further coughing up blood or are coupled with other symptoms of which I don't have, besides a sore side but no sharp pain or rib damage (I did cough blood once more a bit in the shower but I sort of had to force it out, just in curiosity.. Maybe not a great idea)

Anyway, is this like a normal instant result of blunt trauma and likely not to bother me again or should I worry about the possibility of drowning in my own blood during my sleep tonight?

It's nadda tooma (arnie)

Na seriously. Should give
Health direct a call tonight (24hrs)
1800 022 222
They are usually very heapful. Have helped out lots with our babies.
No doubt they will tell you to get checked out ASAP.
Good luck with it.
Kitch

You need to see your GP. Make an appointment tomorrow. Coughing up blood when winded is rather unusual. It may actually be nothing to do with your injury. And that needs investigation, at very least a chest xray.

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Haha ok people I'm going to the g.p tomorrow! I splutter a little up every now and again so yeah.. :/

Thanks for your concern!

When you go to theDoctors tomorrow, if it's a girl doctor (or a guy doctor if that's your thing)...

Tell them you also hurt your nuts and one now feels different from the other...

That way, when they charge you seventy bucks to tell you coughing up blood is probably nothing...

atleast you got someone other than yourself to play with your balls...

When you bleed, eventually it stops due to the fact that the blood clots.
Sometimes, a clot can dislodge and move.
If it moves and ends up in your lung, heart or brain, it will kill you.

Go to a fkn hospital now before you wake up dead.

WTF is with asking for medical advice about serious stuff on the internet???

As of now rockingham hospital has the shortest ED wait time.

Dude stop being lazy and ask Doctor Google, then trust the answer completly.

^^ maybe a posthumous award for the most dedicated Seabreezer?

Haha chill out people, we as kite surfers take hard abdominal hits. Thought sombody may have had a similar experience.. didn't expect to be called gay or female! Seabreaze obviously wasn't the first place I went are you not all familiar with g.ps opening hours or booking availability? It didn't seem like a mortal wound so Im not about to roll myself onto the front door of a hospital when there are sure to be other people in more seriouse conditions in need of attention before me..

Have you got any good surfboards I can have if you die?

Yeah, I'm appreciative of the concern and helpfull responses like I mentioned before and I'm not overly concerned about the jokers (apparently you can't have one without the other:) but i post on this forum inbetween taking all other precautionary measures because.. Well my phone is just always there in my hand.. Also in the hope it may generate actual informative discussion for others to view and share I.e the original intention of the Internet forum.

Anyway I've been to the doctor! Everything is fine, blood pressure, oxygen levels, respiratory system, rib cage, spine.. It's seems you are able to dislodge blood from your lungs walls with heavy trauma without incurring further damage. As SHE explained, your lung is not air tight like many people thing as in infact a big wet sponge. A hard hit will compress your ribs around your lung squeezing out blood and causing your body to cough it up.

I am lucky, and she even said it is safe to kite again when I feel upto it by limiting myself based on my own pain threshhold. Others may not be so lucky and like stated previously coughing up blood is an ALARMING symptom of many seriouse injuries and should be reported to a health practitioner!

Wish you all fun and safe kiting.
Cheers.

Glad all is ok!

However your lungs are air tight! if they were not air would fill the space between your chest wall and lungs, compressing the lungs so that they would not function resulting in Pneumothorax if this was untreated it would lead to respiratory arrest.

haha its kinda ironic that the dude with the user name "thedoctor" was closest to the money though!(literally it cost $70 and she said it was ok..) um no, no ball cradling.. actually i was suspicious towards the amount of attention she paid to touching my sexy bod ;)

yeah when i wrote "not air tight" i meant that the walls are wet (with blood) i.e blood and oxygen obviously get in and out of your lung tissue but it is the blood that plays a large part in making your lung a sealed unit..

meh any way i probably have horribly misquoted and defiled some medical explanation of what happens when you breath but im not a doctor and its a little bit beside the point so yeah.. lung is good.