Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Are we all clumsy?

I'm constantly klutzing stuff, in fact, my clumsiness surprises even myself, on a daily basis. My dad's quite a klutz, too, so i'd think I just inherited the tall, gangly klutziness, except that as a teenager, people were always telling me how graceful I was, especially for someone so tall and skinny. (My mom was tall and skinny, too, and she's always moved very gracefully, even since having her knee busted to heck and having 3 strokes, she's still not a klutz) so I'm thinking, is AS making me more clumsy with age? And/or Fibromyalgia, of course. And of COURSE, canes and crutches are pretty much a guarantee of clumsiness, but I mean COME ON, I've got 16 years' practice on them! I should have this DOWN by now! I did switch to forearm crutches for 2010, so that's taken some getting used to, y'know the cuff and that bend make them a bit of a physics problem when you're trying to lean them against a counter to write a check or something, but so are my canes, and regular crutches are topheavy too.

Just wondering what everyone thought about the subject.
love,
Bridget

I drop a glass a day, try to catch it and just miss as it shatters on the floor....yes I am terribly clumsy.......they make me use plastic bouncy utensils now

I am always dropping thing and I trip over nothing/everything. I can be walking where there are no obstructions and still trip and fall flat on my face. It's so embarrassing.

Th elonger I have AS the more "clumsy" I become. Of course, the way my AS impedes or redirects some of my motions klutziness in inevitable.

I have broken my toes more times then I will admit by simply misgauging how far out my toes go and so they smash full bore into a table, a wall or some unfrogiving hard surface.

My grip sometimes loosens inexplicably due to a "zap" of electicity some might call pain that races down from my shoulder into my fingers and soe thing frequently plummet out of my hands as if my mitts were a missile launch rather than human hands with opposable thumbs.

I have crashed my cranium so many times being unaware of just how forward leaning my head is that I am concussedly (???) challenged.

Yep my vote is we could be called clumsy. Yet with all this that ails me and most of us I believe myself to be more graceful and artful than most folks on the planet. Give them a week in my body and I bet they would find remaining upright on two feet a feat. So if clumsiness and grace can coexist, they do in ASKickers.

nope, not me!..........THUD! &*#% *OUCH* %#*&! LOL!

i've been tripping over cracks in the sidewalk since i can remember! hubby abuses me to no end for that!

I just thought of something . . . our meds. I'll just BET our meds do their best to contribute to clumsiness too. I was thinking about my increasing clumsiness, and then my increasing spaciness, and ditziness . . . pain and nerve problems and fusion probably contribute a lot, but our various brain-blocking meds (I'm currently on . . . at least 4 meds that "stone" people, in rather high doses) have to have a ton of influence.

I can literally fall over from a standing-still position. While wearing both shoes, while sober. I don't know how many times i've done that. Just be standing talking to someone and fall the heck over . . . lol. I usually catch myself on a wall before i go all the way over though. haha.

I actually had a dream last night that Cody dropped and broke a glass and that I was executed for not vacuuming it up properly. Stupid housework and my stupid father-in-law giving me nightmares!!

I definitely miscalculate where cups and glasses are when I go to reach out to pick one up. I know I fail on those neurology coordination tests bigtime too. That finger nose test is a joke - my arm is going all over the place. I have a few other upper motor neurone signs too, although I've been checked out by a couple of different neuros and they don't think there is anything neuro wrong with me. I wonder if some of the spine stuff does actually impinge slightly on the spinal cord making the transmission of nerve impulses just not quite right some of the time and thats what causes the lack of coordination and general clutziness. Oh, and I can't clap either - try and do it and it looks ridiculous. Although I can tap and clap my hands if I'm doing it to music. Had a neuro type person explain to me that actually different neurological pathways are used when you are doing something to music than if you are just trying to do it without.

Try the finger nose test, and also the heel shin test (google neuro examination to find out how to do it). I'd be really interested if other people with no obvious neuro disorders come up with the same incoordination I have.

Well, I can't speak for anyone else here, but I certainly am clumsy. So are all of my siblings and all of our children. I don't know about the older generation, because they all died young ~ not of clumsiness thank GOD!

Yep...clumsy...clutzy...Mrs. Spilly Pants ova here!
Ever since I can remember...so I don't think it's AS related for me. I bang into things...trip over things..and sometimes trip over nothing. Spill stuff and drop things constantly.
My friends call me "The Gazelle" Seriously..they do lol

Cheers,

Steph

Hi Bridget,
I got really good at tripping over my cane. I had lots of practice. Now I can bang my knees and stub my toes like the pros. I drop most smaller objects constantly too, even before I grease up my hands with the psoriasis creams. My cane falls over all the time when I lean it against something.
take care,
James (greasy-palms)