# falling making you weak?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 21, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909 "2004-11-21T03:38:08Z")
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909/1 "2004-11-21T03:38:08Z")
I went rollerskating today. I used to all the time but it had been 22 years.
Long story short, I fell. Right down. 5’11" down. Right on my butt, middle.
I felt awful and took my skates off.
Shortly after that, the session ended and we walked across to the grocery store.
Halfway through, I felt sick-like and needed to sit down or I’s fall down.
Is this a common response to a jolting fall?
I am fine now.
But sore.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909/2 "2004-11-21T03:52:07Z")
It absolutelty can be the result of such a fall, especially if you aint a kid anymore. I fell on my ass in a warehouse a few years ago and although the fall did not hurt all that much I was definitely out of sorts for quite a while after.
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### Author:  [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909/3 "2004-11-21T04:02:43Z")
> [@vanilla](#):
>
> I went rollerskating today. I used to all the time but it had been 22 years.
> Long story short, I fell. Right down. 5’11" down. Right on my butt, middle.
>
> I felt awful and took my skates off.
> Shortly after that, the session ended and we walked across to the grocery store.
> Halfway through, I felt sick-like and needed to sit down or I’s fall down.
> Is this a common response to a jolting fall?
> I am fine now.
> But sore.
As a skater myself, ([www.skatetrash.org](http://www.skatetrash.org)) I have my share of falls. The last one a couple of weeks ago. Got airborne on a bump and fell on my right chest. Knocked the wind out of me. A couple of days later the rotater cuff area hurt. Oh, and a good roadrash on my right elbow.
I have experienced that feeling after a fall. A little head dizzy mixed with nausea in the stomach and intestines.
As far as the nausea, I think the fall just jolts your body so that things shift, and bloodflows alter. On at least one occasion, that feeling came with a sudden urge to take a big dump.
I look forward to member input.
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### Author:  [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-making-you-weak/275909/4 "2004-11-21T04:05:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> As far as the nausea, I think the fall just jolts your body so that things shift, and bloodflows alter. On at least one occasion, that feeling came with a sudden urge to take a big dump.
I can definitely back this feeling up, as I used to skate ramps and rails, and once while clearing a really high box I basically flatbottomed 6 feet landed on my ass and felt the immediate urge to go #2 even though I really didn’t have to.