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Monique Jeffrey in her halo traction device.
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A Melbourne mother who dislocated two vertebrae in her neck by sneezing believed doctors were looking at the wrong X-ray when they broke the news to her.
Monique Jeffrey, 28, told ninemsn was lying in bed with a heat pack on her stiff neck after she "slept on it funny" when the injury happened on March 16.
"I felt a sneeze coming on and I inhaled, as you do when you sneeze, and it hurt," she told ninemsn.
"When I sneezed I felt something move and it was excruciating. I had two sneezes and with the second one I was like 'Oh my God."
The injury caused Mrs Jeffrey's head to become locked to her right shoulder and she was in too much pain to move anything but her right arm.
Fortunately her mobile phone was in her hand when the accident happened and she was able to text her husband for help.
"I kept thinking 'I hope it's something simple. Hopefully I've pulled a muscle and they'll give me some exercises to fix it'," she said.
But after being taken to Sandringham Hospital by ambulance and given exercises for a "wry neck" Mrs Jeffrey's condition worsened.
"I started to get pins and needles in my arm and I said to my husband 'You'd better get the nurse'," she said.
She was given a CT scan and immediately sent to the The Alfred Hospital's spinal trauma unit.
There she learned the sneeze had displaced the top two vertebrae in her neck and she would need to wear a halo traction device for three months to move them back into place and return movement to her head.
"I was terrified when they told me what I'd done," she said.
"I said to the doctor 'I think you've made a mistake', I didn't believe him, I asked him to check again."
The neurosurgeon told Mrs Jeffrey her injury was "really unlucky and really rare".
"I have some loose ligaments in my neck and they're trying to figure out why I had loose ligaments," she said.
"Some of the doctors are worried this could happen again if they don't figure out why it happened in the first place, but I honestly think I was just unlucky."
Later that night medical staff drilled four pins into Mrs Jeffrey's skull and fitted her with the halo traction device to realign the vertebrae in her neck with weights.
"That was the worst, that was worse than labour," she said.
"They can't give you pain relief when they do this, it involves screwing four pins into your head that go through your skull.
"It hurts a lot but it's more the pressure on the skull as they're screwing it into place. The reason they can't give you pain relief is you need to be able to tell them if your neck is hurting you."
Mrs Jeffrey will need to wear a large metal brace for three months.
As the mother of a 10-month-old baby, Tom, she will need to move to Hobart to live with her parents until she is well enough to look after her son again.
Mrs Jeffrey told ninemsn she was now feeling fine and was "trying to be positive and prove to the physio I'm okay to be at home".
"I just want to get back to Tassie so Tom can get back into routine," she said.
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How the fuck?
Regardless, I now have phobia of sneezing.
But sneezing feels so good and refreshing. :(
i sneeze all the time, she must have discovered that she probably has a bad neck bone or something called "slip disk"?
I dislocated my kneecap in October, shit hurt because it went onto the side of my leg.
I can't imagine how much a dislocated NECK hurts my god.
So now sneezing's also dangerous in Australia? Lets add that to the long list then...
But in all seriousness that is the worst luck.
And I like to sneeze hard on purpose...
Gravity, people. We're upside down, any slight imbalances are dangerous.
I cringed at the part where they had to drill four screws into her head without pain relief.
How the fuck does one not scream from pain during that?
Bless you.
I really would have preferred to not have read this. Especially since I have a cold at the moment.
I'm scared to sneeze now, I think I will survive dislocating my neck - but getting a bunch of pins screwed into my forehead .. :|
[QUOTE=Gutsani;35354283]I'm scared to sneeze now, I think I will survive dislocating my neck - but getting a bunch of pins screwed into my forehead .. :|[/QUOTE]
You will survive that too. If you wouldn't get those pins, you probably wouldn't survive, you would have too much pain to do anything and then just die after a while of starvation.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;35353458]But sneezing feels so good and refreshing. :([/QUOTE]
I have chronic hayfever, you shut the fuck up
Ban sneezing.
I managed to dislocate my neck once when I was about five. It fucking [I]hurt[/I] and I couldn't turn my head. I slipped on some ice and landed hard, flat on my back. It knocked the wind out of me. It luckily wasn't as severe as what happened to this poor woman. My mom's chiropractor popped it back in place and it never bothered me again.
Hah, like that one chick who got a locked jaw after yawning. I was scared of yawning for the rest of the day after reading about that.
[QUOTE=Overv;35354616]Hah, like that one chick who got a locked jaw after yawning. I was scared of yawning for the rest of the day after reading about that.[/QUOTE]
It won't take long until we will be afraid to do anything.
My mom know an old lady that managed to dislocate her jaw when she yawned.
Breaking news: sneezing gives you cancer.
never sneezing again
I've once dislocated my leg by sneezing. It hurt. A lot.
[QUOTE=Somebody_404;35353996]And I like to sneeze hard on purpose...[/QUOTE]
Sneezes can also cause blood vessels to burst very rarely. Your body basically hates you so much that something as simple as sneezing or coughing can cause severe health issues.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;35354863]My mom know an old lady that managed to dislocate her jaw when she yawned.[/QUOTE]
Yeah the sister of a friend of mine did that too. She apparently had to use a block of wood to get it back again because it apparently happens more after it's happened once before.
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[QUOTE=yawmwen;35355751]Sneezes can also cause blood vessels to burst very rarely. Your body basically hates you so much that something as simple as sneezing or coughing can cause severe health issues.[/QUOTE]
Quite common to pop one in the eye i think.
Australia bans sneezing.
[sp]I'm moving, need me some boxes[/sp]
I just sneezed. Needless to say, I am the boy who lived!
I sneezed and then looked at this thread.
Needless to say I was relieved.
ninja bastard
[QUOTE=eternalflamez;35357018]I just sneezed. Needless to say, I am the boy who lived![/QUOTE]
now you'll grow up to become a hero that finally rids this world of the evil sneeze wizards alongside your best friends
there will be a movie series
it will make billions
[QUOTE=sami-pso;35355917]
Quite common to pop one in the eye i think.[/QUOTE]
Depends on what you mean by common. The chance is definitely not enough to lose sleep over, or hold back your sneezes.
I had my neck being fucking sore from getting my hair cut. Damn Salons.
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