Broke my neck!

[borg4902]

Well here it is boys and girls I was 18 days away from my goal everything was going superbly as planned when everything was takin away. I was on the smith machine doin calf raise with 585lbs, on my 23rd rep I heard a really loud snap and all of a sudden it felt like someone hit me with a sledge hammer right where the bar was sitting. I lost my vision for a moment and saw a bright flash of light. When the vision returned I decided to rack it and see what the hell was happening. I ran to the bathroom and stripped off my shit, my buddy saw nothing, so I went back to the weight room and attemted to take the plates off the bar, but right when the weight hit my hand it just fell to the floor. This is when I decided it was probably time to leave. I went home and my mom drove me to the ER where they had me move my head all sorts of different directions (not wise I thought), so I had some x rays and a cat scan. Apparently all that weight was sitting on the spinus process of c7 and it just broke right off the body of the vertebrae. So I decided to come completely off which honestly I havent done for a very long time. What makes it even worse I cant touch a weight or even jog, I am basically confined to my house for at least a month, thats when I have to go see the neurosergion to see if it healed cause if not it has to be surgically reatached. Any advice on what to take you guys know the doses ive been on, and should I eat at maintenence I used to be really fat and dont want to gain durring this time off. Right now im taking my meds which makes me sleep almost 24/7 its real depressing at times all my friend are in the gym all the time and I dont even want to see them right now, I work at GNC and thats the last place I wanna be when I cant touch a weight. I ate a whole jar af natty pb last night and fell like shit for it today. All in all I think mabey God was trying to tell me something and it took this for me to listen.

 

[Generic MALE]

You have what is commonly called a clay shovelers fracture. That is where the spinous process breaks off. They are usually benign. I doubt they will do surgery unless the radiology shows something deeper (nearer the disc) than simply a spinous process fracture.

 

[Generic MALE]

You have what is commonly called a clay shovelers fracture. That is where the spinous process breaks off. They are usually benign. I doubt they will do surgery unless the radiology shows something deeper (nearer the disc-such as a pars defect) than simply a spinous process fracture.

 

[GoFastMan]

??

 

[borg4902]

Yea i know.

 

[Luciano_]

Dude, shit happen. Don't worry you'll be back soon.
Regarding your diet, I don't know but surely some of the big guys will help you.

See you around

 

[borg4902]

thanks

 

[kerbouchard94]

I'm new to the boards so I can't give diet advice but I did fracture C2-C3 while attending the Naval Academy. I had left arm dysfunction and weakness for about six monthes secondary to some nerve damage but it eventually came back to 100%. Like the previous post said a spiny process Fx usually will heal on its own without surgery. You may have to lay off of putting weight on across your shoulders and neck for a while but you should be able to train again when your body heals itself (many times a bone Fx will be stronger at the site of the break due to the excess calcium buildup the body uses to stabilize the two pieces of the bone) So try to stay positive and visualize how good it will feel when you get back in the gym.