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Acute pain occurs frequently and can be from just generally having overdone things (like going grocery shopping). I regularly sustain new injuries or experience joint subluxations (partial dislocation).
All of this is thanks to my hypermobile joints.
My latest unexplainable acute injury occurred a few months back. Carrying my laptop in one hand for a few moments too long. The result being that I spontaneously ruptured a small vein in my forearm.
This whilst not only being very painful, to the point of an Emergency Department visit being contemplated, was accompanied by a mighty and spreading bruise within minutes. My cardiologist was perplexed by it, and my neurosurgeon’s response was of relief,