Thanks all... Since Sam's is right around the corner, I will start out there. I need to find one that doesn't have that strong rubbery smell...

I am much better today. Still very sore, but I can breathe, so am OK. I have to see my doc Monday, so he will hear about it then...

I don't know why people fall like they do. I just don't recall being so clumsy as a kid. I broke my arm when I was about 4, but that was because I fell out of a chair...

MrsD: Did you get a chance to think about the Calcium, Vitamin D, Magnesium ratio?

Calcium Citrate & D: 800 IU D, 1260 mg Calcium (4 gag size pills)
Vitamin: 400 IU D, 200 mg Calcium
Biotin: (has calcium in it) 73 mg Calcium (dr. said for fingernails-doesn't work)
SloMag: 212 mg Calcium, 128 mg Magnesium (2 pills)

Many thanks,
Cathie

I understand I was just thinking not so much for protection of breaking something but to make it so one doesn't slip so easy. Like those bath mats have traction. Cathie have you been tested for osteoporosis? Maybe your bones are so weak that you fall easily. My mom takes fosomax and thinks it has helped her. My endo just wants me to take calcium with vitamin d and I take seperate magnesium and also glucosamine msn.

you are not getting twitching/cramping..then that ratio is working for you.

I get muscle spasms now, if I forget my calcium. Part of that reason is that
I use a calcium channel blocker for blood pressure...although a low dose.

Take the calcium in divided doses, since there is an upper limit to absorption.
At least twice a day. (not all at once).

On the mats....cow mats are a bout a half inch think and weigh a ton...you need two full grown men (Lester and Clay) to load them in your Ford F150 pick up truck....you buy them at local farm supply stores. Once that thing is down, it is not going anywhere....it is about a 4 x 6 size, comes in a variety of colors...BLACK. It does have a half inch lip you can trip on. At the farm store it is a COW MAT.

You can also buy mats at fitness stores, but only get commercial mats similar to cow mats....there they cost twice as much, roughly 80 bucks, and you can get BLACK with red, blue or other little flecks of color.....Don't call it a cow mat there, they might take it personally....Likewise, you need 2 men (Bjorn and Lars) to carry them out to your SUV or similarly large vehicle.

Don't order them online as the shipping is by weight, and then again, if you don't have a Lester and Clay or a Bjorn and Lars at home, getting the mat where you want it might be difficult.

Don't buy any flimsy mats or you will slip or trip on them....the mats I refer to are like flooring essentially. They break your fall, but you can't expect to escape serious injury no matter what....it beats brick, concrete or ice. Did you know ice is 7 times harder than concrete? I wish some one had told me that before I decided to relearn how to skate a few years ago. (Don't worry, skates are gone, but I did get pretty good at skating...for a while anyway.) And yes, anything that contacted the ice other than the blades, still hurts.

Thanks... Maybe I need to learn how to fall correctly. Falling flat down frontwards is not exactly a good way to break a fall... When I was young and fell, I never gave that a second thought...

I fell a couple of times and rolled as I fell, but falling on the grass is not as hard, so it wasn't that painful. When I fell off of my shoe and fractured ribs, it was about 10:00 pm; it was on the sidewalk, which really hurt... I laid out there in the dark for a while thinking my husband or someone would come along, but then the football game was on, and you know how that goes... It hurt alright, but nothing like it did when I tried to get up out of a chair later on.

I guess a person could just die lying there on the sidewalk, unless it was at the end of the fourth quarter...

Cathie

Thanks MrsD...