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Monday was an interesting day in the gym. It seems like I perpetually have scrapes on my shins from deadlifting but they really don't concern me that much. However, Monday was a slightly different story.
I finished my squats then rested while someone else used the bar. When he was done I went to load the bar for deadlifts and apparently when he racked the weights he put the 45lb plate just at the edge of the rack. So when I went to take it off (not realizing how it was barely on there), it fell and hit my shin. Luckily it hit at an angle and not straight on so it just scraped the skin off my shin. It still hurt like crazy but at least I didn't break anything. After hitting my leg I hopped around for awhile then picked up the plate and put it on the bar, noticing a nice chunk of skin on the plate. So I looked a little closer at my leg and thought I was lucky because it only took off a really thin layer of skin and wasn't bleeding that bad. There was a white patch (about 1/2 the size of a penny but oblong, not round) and some blood around that patch. My first reaction was, "that's odd but kind of cool that it's not bleeding". Then I thought about it a little more and realized that the white patch was actually my shin bone. I looked a little closer to verify and I'm pretty positive that's what happened. Although I didn't know bone could bleed but after a little while there were little tiny red spots on the bone.
Anyway, I stopped looking at it because I didn't want to freak myself out and I had just started my workout so I didn't want to quit. It was my 5 x 5 day (doing Hypertrophy I of NROL right now) so I did my deadlifts, then supersetted bulgarian split squats and step-ups, did some reverse crunches and went home to clean it up.
It seems to be ok but I'm not sure how to handle it now. It really doesn't hurt unless I touch it (or hit it on something....that really smarts!). But what is the best way to let it heal? I cleaned it with some hydrogen peroxide yesterday then covered it up with some gauze and polysporin and left it overnight. Now today it has been out in the air. Should I clean it again or everyday or is that going to slow the healing process? And should I leave it covered or expose it to air? And the skin will grow back over my shin bone, right??
Karl
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It might heal better with a stitch or butterfly there.
The problem is that there is nothing to stitch or hold together with a butterfly. The skin is just gone and there is no way to stretch anything over. I basically have a missing patch of skin about 1cm x .5cm.
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"I mean, hell, if you have a belly and need to lose 20 pounds AND you've been training over 6 or 7 years, then why do you still have a belly? Something is out of whack.
The short answer is that while you're an animal in the gym, you're a p*ssy in the kitchen." - Chris Shugart
Wash daily with soap/water and keep it moist with vaseline and covered with a bandage. No scabs. No neosporin/polysporin necessary. It should reepithelialize within 1-2 weeks depending on how fast you heal and given no underlying circulatory problems or diabetes or other reasons to impede wound healing.
Wash daily with soap/water and keep it moist with vaseline and covered with a bandage. No scabs. No neosporin/polysporin necessary. It should reepithelialize within 1-2 weeks depending on how fast you heal and given no underlying circulatory problems or diabetes or other reasons to impede wound healing.
And what, no pics? I love a good skin wound!
Tina
Thanks Tina! I don't have any vaseline so I'll have to use polysporin for tonight and pick up some vaseline tomorrow. And I do have pics but they didn't turn out very well so I didn't post them. But here they are anyway And technically these are upside-down but that's how it looks from my point of view.
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"I mean, hell, if you have a belly and need to lose 20 pounds AND you've been training over 6 or 7 years, then why do you still have a belly? Something is out of whack.
The short answer is that while you're an animal in the gym, you're a p*ssy in the kitchen." - Chris Shugart
I betcha Tina's going to circulate those amongst her dermo friends. Next thing you know, it's an illustration in the next NEJM paper.
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LOL! That's what I was thinking at first too. I was wondering how it was going to look to go to the store when the only thing I was buying was Vaseline. Especially if I went there at night! Luckily the store has a self-checkout so it wasn't too bad.
And just for the record, according to the label of this stuff I am supposed to rub it all over my body every day. haha....yeah, right. But it really does say that, "Use it daily all over your body, even your face".
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"I mean, hell, if you have a belly and need to lose 20 pounds AND you've been training over 6 or 7 years, then why do you still have a belly? Something is out of whack.
The short answer is that while you're an animal in the gym, you're a p*ssy in the kitchen." - Chris Shugart
And just for the record, according to the label of this stuff I am supposed to rub it all over my body every day. haha....yeah, right. But it really does say that, "Use it daily all over your body, even your face".
Anyone else thinking about Curley from "Of Mice and Men"?
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LOL! That's what I was thinking at first too. I was wondering how it was going to look to go to the store when the only thing I was buying was Vaseline. Especially if I went there at night! Luckily the store has a self-checkout so it wasn't too bad.
It would look more fucked up if you bought a box of tissues with the vaseline.
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Wash daily with soap/water and keep it moist with vaseline and covered with a bandage. No scabs. No neosporin/polysporin necessary. It should reepithelialize within 1-2 weeks depending on how fast you heal and given no underlying circulatory problems or diabetes or other reasons to impede wound healing.
And what, no pics? I love a good skin wound!
Tina
Tina, you can go in my log. I've got a great picture of the open wound from my surgery a couple of months ago.
I did a very similar thing while mountain biking about 6 years ago, probally about 2x as big of a gash as you, hardly even bled.
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this was 6 years ago, i can still clearly see it and there is an indent on my shin. Probally should have got a stitch or two, but oh well.
Skin grows back, right?
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