"I shouldn't be riding but ..."

Hoof_Prints said:
Ouch ! get well soon, last year I managed to break too many bones, broke both wrists in two places and rode in casts, told off by the doctor but the physiotherapist said I recovered remarkably fast and she put it down to the riding ! !
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I had similar when I fractured my wrist. Had a very interesting conversation with the doctor when I had the cast taken off. He had just had his removed after a mountain biking crash, and same as me, carried on riding with a cast on. His advice once the cast was off, was just to use it and if it hurt that was too much. I never needed physio, and I was back to full use very quickly.
 
I came off on a hack on a track (idiot scramblers) - a very kind driver stopped, helped me catch my horse and re-mount. Got back to yard and when I got off I realised my ankle really hurt. Small fracture! I also broke my hip about a year and a half ago - did a proper job of it and failed to get back on at the advised 6 months point as was having problems with screws. I ended up with a replacement but was back on a horse 12 weeks after that. I'm taking it slowly but I'd waited long enough (14 months in total).
 
Nakipa said:
I am currently 4 weeks into a 6 week stint in plaster after breaking my ankle falling down three stairs. I am desperate to ride but it's my left ankle and consultant reckons no riding til mid May.
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Is it no riding until mid May or because you want to mount/dismount from the left?
 
Well, it's not exactly an injury (or, at least, my doctor doesn't think it is, but the overall verdict amounts to 'it could be any one of four or five things but we treat them all the same way so don't worry'), but I have chronic anterior knee pain in my right leg (and to a lesser extent in the left one too), which I have been advised on several occasions that I probably shouldn't ride with, but it's not any better when I don't ride, and nobody's actually given me any solutions for how to fix it (to begin with, it was 'you'll grow out of it in a few years' and then I finished growing and there was some rather ineffectual physio); so I ride anyway because life's too bleeding short.
 
I started backing a Welsh Cob 4 weeks after having an emergency full knock-out job c-section. I was on blood pressure meds for the first 2 weeks which made me dizzy as hell but once that was over I got cracking, leaning over the cob and getting on it at 4 weeks. Unfortunately the cob's saddle didnn't fit right (even though pro fitted), which I found out after it exploded twice within the first week, first time narrowly missinig a wire fence and second time chucking me off onto a plastic jump block which permanently screwed the nerves in my hip. My first thought was to look down and check I hadn't popped open... probably wouldn't do that again quite so soon...
 
I wasn't too patient when I bust my collar bone, went for a birthday ride about 3 weeks after breaking it, and went to a show just short of 6 weeks... However it was riding my very forgiving show horse :D, wouldn't recommend it though collar-bones hurt! I only went to the show as I'd already paid out for it ;). Hospital didn't agree for me to ride until 14 weeks post break, I didn't like to mention I'd been riding already...
 
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