yeah, how much? call it summer '07, frontways, sideways, off chairs, even toilets. But I'm not daring enough to fall on coffee tables, aim for chairs or give me a good old hard wood floor.

I have only fallen once since dx (down the stairs in front of my kids) but plenty of times before. It's funny: I was ok with it when I thought I was just clumsy but now it freaks me out.

yup, my most impressive fall was a complete header down a spiral staircase, then having hit the bottom of that went down 4 more stairs...just about gave my mother in law a heart attack!

lets see 4 toilet tanks / the header down the stairs /broken door to bedroom / shower door (oh that one was fun) for a long time hubby was down more than up ,

i try real hard to forget my falls.i'm sure it's more then a dozen maybe 20. the worst was down my friends stairs.luckily i'm fat a big blueberry so i've never broken anything. i've gotten some very nasty brooses

I just remembered, I fell out of the shower a couple of times. That was strange!

Falls are relatively normal for me. I usually don't hurt myself that badly. Once I really twisted my ankle--took a couple of months to heal. About a month after that (my worst fall ever), I fell in the bathroom at night and broke my right hand. When I first got up crying, I looked at my hand and knew it was not right. Happily, I reset it myself because I did not make it to the hospital until the next day.

Honestly, I drove myself to the hx and told my partner to fix the toilet while I was gone (back crap needed replaced; it sat in the bathroom for a month UNTIL I broke my hand. As long as he had an excuse not to go to the hospital, he would have manufactured GOLD--wish I had asked for that LOL).

It's all good. I try to fall on my well padded behind, but if I don't, I usually rebound so quickly, I don't give it a thought. Save for the barameter hand that always tells me when it is going to rain... LOL xo Cj

As a matter of fact I had my first fall last Friday. I fell in my backyard on the cement knees first and cut my right knee really ugly and then Sunday I fell on my ass in the grass in my yard. Now I am scared that I am going to fal again!!!!!!!!

How you doing you ask have I fell yeah I have fell a couple of times.Physical therepy does the trick.I thought it wouldnt but it does.GOOD LUCK TO YA AND STAY STRONG.goodguy27

I 'fall' a lot of times, but not really down, more into things such as the door frame (we're on a first name cursing basis), walls, etc. I feel your pain with this though. Before the dx I too thought I was just clumsy, but now I know that's not the case and it worries me more than it used to.

IF THERE WAS AN OLEMPIC SPORT ON FALLING TRUST ME I WOULD GET THE GOLD MEDAL.

3 years ago I slipped and fell down the steps in our new house...broke my tailbone. Good thing as a 2nd grade teacher, there isn't alot of sitting. The following winter, I refused to believe that my balance was going. So I took my 2 kids ice-skating...you guessed it...fell and broke my tailbone again. My daughter liked telling people that her mom broke her 'butt bone'.
What else can you do but laugh.

I fall a lot. My worst fall I have had to really bad ones. One when I got up one morning and my legs stayed in bed, fell into thenight stand and bruised my whole left side head to toe. My 2 nd really bad fall was in the bathroom I was doing some thing can't remember what now, and I fell into the cat litter box....hurt my leg and back and bruised myself and my pride on that one. Thankfully the cat litter was clean ;)

But I stumble and fall a lot. I should use my chair or cane in the house. But I fall with the cane also, I did that in the video store....
Hugs
Morgaine

"Falling queen" here! I fall alot! When I worked at IGA, I fell about 5 times, then at Food Lion, 2 times (in a month)

But the worse one was when I worked at the Vocational Rehab. I walked over an icy spot outside and lost my balance and fell flat on my a--! You'd think that out of all the people standing outside (about 50 people) that someone would come help me up, but instead, they all laughed at me! What jerks they were! Finally one lady came and helped me up. ONE... out of about 50!!!!

I have fell a few times in the beginning, oh course it happened at work and was able to cover it blaming it on my shoes. Fell once when I started a new med again embarrassed! I found out that I could not drink too much unless I wanted to remain seated or fall. That was a good one ended up with a black eye. Falling is my biggest fear.