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Right side of back gurgling after fall.
Two nights ago I was out drinking with some buddies and I took a pretty hard fall trying to get down from my friends roof and landed on my back and head and smacked my ankle pretty hard. I feel ok physically but I am a little nauseous and seem to get car sick easily now which is odd for me. But whenever I'm standing I have noticed this weird gurgling feeling in the right side of my back about mid level. Is it possible I injured my kidney or punctured my lung? I've punctured my lung before on the same side a few years ago in football but I don't remember this symptom. Any info helps!
It does sound like a lung thing, perhaps a collapsed lung or one with fluids in it. Go see your doc, or go to a walk-in trauma center. My nephew had that gurgle thing when he had high-altitude sickness, said it was very eerie (and of course since he was 100 miles from being able to get down off the12,000 foot altiplano, he was actually in danger). One lung having a problem is not life-threatening, it is however something to get checked.
ps -- Climbing on a roof when drinking is not the best idea from a medical point of view, no matter what a peach of a move it seemed at the time. Even if you didn't get a collapsed lung, you could just as well have gotten dead, all you would have had to do is hit your neck on a corner of something hard in the fall. You might want think of some absolute rules for yourself that you feel could tend to preserve your life when you are impaired, such as "I will not let my feet leave the floor," or the obvious "I will not drive." Keep them simple so you can remember them when drunk, and only invent rules that you will really take seriously. They really might save your life.
ps -- Climbing on a roof when drinking is not the best idea from a medical point of view, no matter what a peach of a move it seemed at the time. Even if you didn't get a collapsed lung, you could just as well have gotten dead, all you would have had to do is hit your neck on a corner of something hard in the fall. You might want think of some absolute rules for yourself that you feel could tend to preserve your life when you are impaired, such as "I will not let my feet leave the floor," or the obvious "I will not drive." Keep them simple so you can remember them when drunk, and only invent rules that you will really take seriously. They really might save your life.
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