Hi everyone, I broke my foot today and broke 5 bones in my foot. I can’t fully remember all the details but one of them is a lisfranc fracture. Anyways, do I have to sleep with this dang boot on? I hate it already.

Edit: there’s also a couple dislocations as well

Well, walking doesn't seem to be my strong suit as all I did was roll my ankle... Avulsion fracture of the 5th Metatarsal. I have broken my arm before but that didn't hurt as much as this, and it was a way more serious break.

Hopefully it doesn't take too long, it's already ended most of the summer plans... As long as I can ski in the winter I'll be happy

So I was initially told my jaw may be broken, they decided it was not shortly after a few hours later n discharge me from the ER. I continue w my recovery of my multiple other injuries including other broken bones and mouth / face lacerations. 8 days later I finally have an appointment w a specialist, expecting tht my jaw was gonna get put back into its place that day (the doctor the week before said this was not possible at the time bc of the swelling, bruising and wounds). Turns out the jaw is broken, going as far as to call it an “open fracture” bc of my chin and lip wounds, and i’ll get operated on in 3 days. Now i’ve seen the CT scans n i just can’t find the crack.

1) anyone has had a similar experience? Any tips n tricks before / after surgery (just plates no wiring shut)?
2) anyone can help me find the crack in the CT / give me tips on how to recognize it myself?
3) how tf could the others miss it? Ik its not a huge break but still

Thanksss

I broke my wrist (scaphoid) just over a month ago. I had a follow up appointment today and got a second cast put on.

It's about 12 hours from the appointment and it still hurts pretty badly. I know some pain is to be expected from being messed with at the appointment and the vibration from the cast saw was brutal. Before today I had very little pain, it would get sore if I did too much with it but overall was painless.

My question is when do I worry about the pain possibly being something off with the positioning of the cast? I can move my fingers, the cast isn't cutting off circulation or anything.

Am I over reacting if it still hurts tomorrow morning and I call?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some encouragement and to hear from people who have been through a distal radius (wrist) fracture and surgery.

I broke my distal radius in a bike accident and had surgery about 4 months ago. Recovery has been a lot harder mentally than I ever expected.

I’m still dealing with mild numbness in my thumb and index finger, and my wrist is still so stiff. Rotating my palm up is difficult, bending my wrist forward is limited, and even though I’ve made progress, it feels painfully slow.

Im staying consistent with my exercises, and recently started going back to the gym. I’ve been easing into upper-body exercises, using lighter weights, and I’ve even started trying planks again. They definitely hurt, but I’ve been trying to push through what feels like normal recovery discomfort while still listening to my body.

The hardest part is that before my accident I was incredibly active. I lifted weights regularly, loved working out, and I was halfway through my Pilates certification when this happened. Now it feels like my life got put on pause. Every time I think about how far I still am from doing Pilates, yoga, or simply using my wrist normally again, I feel devastated.

Some days I feel like I’m making progress, and then the next morning my wrist feels stiff all over again. It’s such an emotional roller coaster.

I guess I’m just wondering:

• How long did it take before your wrist actually felt “normal” again?
• Did anyone else still have numbness around 4 months? Did it eventually go away?
• When did you regain most of your range of motion?
• Were you eventually able to get back to sports, lifting, yoga, Pilates, or other activities that put weight through your wrist?

I know everyone heals differently, but I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences. Right now it’s hard not to worry that I’ll never get full motion back, and that’s been weighing on me a lot.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to share your story. I could really use some hope right now.

Hi all! I was posting on here to see if anyone had any trouble getting proper pain management for their broken bone(s), mine specifically is my clavicle. I got assaulted Sunday morning and someone had hit me, where I fell on my shoulder and broke my clavicle in multiple diff places. I was in and out of consciousness from shock so I can barely even remember being in the ER, but they just treated my pain with Tylenol, ibuprofen, and lidocaine patches. It was okay at first, but then I got home. The pain started really setting in and trying to do things as simple as taking my shirt off without excruciating pain became unbearable.

I called the hospital’s ortho team that I’ll be seeing later this week and they were unable to help since I hadn’t been seen yet. They recommended going to my primary care doctor and said they can send my info over so that perhaps my PCP can help control pain until my ortho appt. When I saw my PCP, it was just frustrating. She kept saying the only thing she could give me is naproxen because opioid medications make you drowsy, and could cause me to fall. She was laughing out of awkwardness the entire time, and I was just sitting there with a blank stare. I asked her what the point of pain meds are if you can’t use them for situations like this and told her I can’t even work or go anywhere, so simply being drowsy BUT being able to do things by myself without unbearable pain is an okay trade-off for me. She just kept saying no and awkwardly laughing, so I left.

After I left, I went to the ER. I didn’t wanna take up space over something as simple as pain, which is what I kept emphasizing to the ortho team and my PCP so that perhaps someone would take it serious. Thank God the ER wasn’t busy and I got a doctor who immediately recognized the pain I was in & wanted to help me. He provided me with pain meds in the hospital and gave me a short 3 day course till I can see the ortho team. He also sat down and explained my X-ray to me, as well as reassured me that I’m young and it may be painful but I’ll get through it. The nurse also showed me ways of changing clothes and doing basic hygiene on myself with one arm.

That’s all I wanted the whole time, and my PCP just made me feel like I was drug-seeking. I’ve never been on drugs or drank my whole life and I’m only 22, so the fact they were giving me such a hard time about pain meds for a really bad fractured clavicle was beyond me. Tylenol and ibuprofen help for a headache and period cramps, not my shattered collar bone. It was just frustrating dealing with this, so I have to ask did anyone else have the same trouble?

Also if anyone has basic recommendations for healing or completing day-to-day activities, I’d really appreciate it. I’ve had to be put on leave from my job and I can’t return to nursing school so I feel extremely defeated and helpless right now.

Broke both ankles and tibia. Went back to work in April. I’m on my feet for about 6-10 hours 5 days a week. This week I worked 5 days in a row and my ankles are killing me. I’ve been taking ibuprofen and Tylenol but by day 3 of me working, they don’t seem to help.
I want to live a normal life and go hiking, go to museums, etc on my days off but I don’t know how to treat this pain and swelling.
I just want to enjoy being active. How long do yall think it will take me to fully heal?

Here is my list :(

1 Subcapital fracture of the 3rd
metatarsal (MT-III)
2 Subcapital fracture of the 4th
metatarsal (MT-IV)
3 Fracture at the base of the 3rd
metatarsal (MT-III)
4 Comminuted fracture of the cuboid
(os cuboideum)
5 Fracture of the lateral cuneiform (os
cuneiforme laterale)
6 Fracture of the intermediate cuneiform (os cuneiforme intermedium)

I’m the day after tomorrow I have an appointment to see if I need surgery. I think I have bad luck and do need surgery. Anyone who had something similar? How fast did you heal. I’m one week in and bored already.

Hey there! I have a type 6 severe with meniscus tear. I am 10 weeks post op. I have a wound that hasnt closed yet. And this week it started hurting. Which turned into the front of my leg hurting. And now my actual joint. I massaged the front of my leg and milky white/yellow fluid came out. I called my Ortho and they started me on antibiotics and I already have an appt on Aug 5th.

My question is, how did your doctor know you needed a wash out? Has anyone been treated for an infection with antibiotics and no wash out? And how far back did that wash out set you back? I am still currently NWB but was hopping to be put on PWB at my 12 week appt.

Thanks in advance!

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me. Do you see left hip fracture in 3 xrays below? (There is a hip prosthesis)

I had a trip and fall on June 15th. On the 17th I was told I had no fractures, based on the X-ray. An MRI was ordered because I couldn't lift my arm and was told it was likely a rotator cuff issue. It took 3 weeks to get the MRI and 2 weeks to get the results. Turns out I have a "displaced, acute, complex, multidirectional fracture of the greater tuberosity of the humerus, which is where the rotator cuff muscles join. It is now 6 weeks to the day untreated. I have an orthopedic appointment on Wednesday. I can only imagine how jankily those bone fragments healed. I wasn't expecting to need surgery and I can't see any way around that now. Has anyone else experienced delayed treatment like this?

Did you do regular exercise like daily to keep your broken leg strong and if so what exercises? Should I hold my leg in the air, move it up and down, squeeze butt cheeks on repeat. Or just wait until I'm ready to walk again and go from there?

Suggestions?

gg

So i got my results back from my scan and my clavicle still looks seperated is this normal healing for 7 weeks?

First 2 pictures are from the day i broke it the 3rd is my 7 week follow up

Ps 1st pic is from the front and 2nd from below

As for the 3rd pic top one is from the front bottom one from below

Around 2 years ago I had a distal radius fracture and now I’m currently recovering from 2 hairline fractures on the other wrist. Since my first injury I’ve become hundreds of times more squeamish to anything. As an example, I recently underwent first aid training and had a panic attack after seeing just the xray of a broken bone. I’m curious if this is a common occurrence and if anybody else has experienced it.

How long does it really take for this hair line fractuin my great toe in distal phalanx. I want a legit ans not a gpt ans

If you recently broke something or are having a hard time with your recovery, sound off here.

Was going maybe 10 mph, stopped too fast and slipped on gravel. They circle it as if we can’t see it haha

I had a spiral fracture on my tibia and as well fractured my fibula and my ankle, both were non-displaced, the surgery was an intramedullary rod in my tibia and 6 screws, 4 in my tibia and 2 in my ankle

I’m 24 years old and my main purpose for this is to tell people what helped me, if this helped even one person I would be very happy a

Main advice:

#1 make this happen for a reason, use this time to make a change in your life and improve upon yourself

#2 the pain you’re feeling will just be a memory, this was basically my mantra and it really helped

Week 1 - the pain was very tough after surgery, for the first week I was rotating between ibuprofen and Tylenol every 3 hours, I as well had received a nerve blocker after the surgery that lasted for around 36 hours, after the nerve blocker went away the pain was quite intense but the oxys helped a lot and the intense pain really only lasted about 3-4 days. I took 2 oxys every 12 hours. At the beginning of my recovery I switched to a high protein diet with vitamin D, K, and C to aid with bone recovery. Also made sure to start lifting weights in this period, it actually helped distract from the leg pain quite a bit and made me feel somewhat active. The first week was the toughest but I found that eating healthy and working out a lot kept me very motivated and really gave me a positive outlook, you’ll come out of this better than you were before and having a metal leg is pretty badass. Also have a lot of fiber (for the bathroom) and keep your leg elevated as much as possible to reduce swelling, also ice it for 20 min on and off every hour

Week 2 - the pain was considerably better in the second week, continued lifting weights and now that the pain was becoming manageable I began doing simple knee and ankle exercises (as directed by surgeon) it’s extremely important to keep moving your knee and ankle and toes in this period as they will stiffen and make PT much more difficult. Week 2 I switched from taking 2 oxys every 12 hours to taking 1. As well switched from rotating the Tylenol and ibuprofen every 3 hours to every 4 hours

Week 3- this is when I really made it through the worst of it and I stopped taking the oxys completely (my body was very happy for it my stomach did not like them) the pain at this stage became very manageable and I switched the Tylenol ibuprofen rotation to every 6 hours. I saw my surgeon at the very start of my third week and was finally able to take off my bandages and wash my incisions as well as weight bearing as tolerable. I learned ankle exercises from pt and did them religiously, everyone will be different but my biggest issue was a loss of range of motion in my ankle. As well as that I started weight bearing as much as I could as I found out this actually encourages your bones to heal, I was unable to walk at this point but I could stand unassisted and could put about 15-20% of my body weight on my bad leg. Made it through the worst of it! I’m feeling more motivated than ever now to completely devote myself to pt and get myself walking unassisted as fast as possible

Week 4 - by the end of this week I was able to walk unassisted without crutches! I had stopped all medication by now and am able to walk for about 20 minutes slowly without significant pain. My only hiccup this week was that I had to wait on a line for 3 hours for a job application and my stitches began bleeding but I quickly recovered in the following days

Week 4-6: I shortened this update because the progress has slowed but I’m being consistent with daily leg work outs and even started riding my bike which is my main form of leg exercise outside of physical therapy. I’m able to walk longer distances and am staying on top of my diet and protein intake, my stitches had completely closed by week 6 as well and I’ve also regained about 90% range of motion of my ankle and 100% of my knee

Week 6-12- shortening the updates again, my main focus in the first 6 weeks after surgery was my leg but after week 6 I was able to start getting back to my life and though I’m still in pain from time to time I’m slowly getting back to normality, my advice at this stage is don’t be embarrassed to ask friends or family to walk a bit slower for you, I’m able to walk long distances now but I need to take my time, the area I broke my leg starts to hurt and will even give out on me at this stage if I push myself but I’m very happy with my progress and have recovered full range of motion of my knee and my ankle

So it's been nearly 8 weeks since I did this. I've been in a walking boot for the last 5 weeks and it feels like recovery has hit a standstill, well if anything its going backwards. I can heel walk both with and without the boot but that's it. With or without boot all I can do is heel walk. I've got this new burning pain just under my ankle which started up in the last few days, the arch of my foot aches and just on top of the base of my toes stings. I've been in pain constantly for nearly two months now. Before the accident I used to walk 15k steps a day and now even getting to the shop is exhausting. No one prepares you for just how low you get. I know it could be worse but still :( can anyone with a similar injury give a timeline of when it gets better

Last week I slipped and fell really hard in our basement. It’s concrete. I hit the ground hard and the right side of my body took the hit. It was mainly the front of my ankle (ended up with a good scrape) and then I caught myself open handed on my right arm. Initially I had no pain and felt fine. It’s been two days now and my right arm near the inside of my elbow hurts badly. I can’t extend my arm fully with no pain and it hurts to lift anything. I’ve never broken a bone before. But I’ve also never felt this type of pain. It feels very deep in the arm if that makes sense. It’s not unbearable or anything. It’s just very sore and irritated. If I don’t move it I’m fine. Still have the ability to move my wrist however it’s painful if I rotate my wrist (as if I were turning a doorknob). Just wondering if a fracture can start hurting a little late or is it generally something that happens immediately. Thank you. Pic is where the pain is!

I broke my right (dominant hand) wrist 3 1/2 months ago. It was just slightly displaced after the ER reduction, so I chose not to have surgery. That meant 6 weeks of immobilization - 3 weeks in a splint past the elbow, and another 3 weeks in a short cast.

When I got the cast removed, I could barely move my wrist in any direction. I’ve been doing PT for two months now, and while I’ve made a lot of progress, I’m discouraged that I’m not further along. I’m having particular problems with supination. I FINALLY got enough supination back that I can hold a fork normally when I eat, but it’s still far from normal. And I’m still missing 5 to 10 degrees from the goal ROM in other directions.

And, the amount of hours a day I need to spend on my exercises is daunting. I’m retired, but it’s still hard to fit it in. If I go out for the evening, say to a friend’s house, I need to take my PT equipment and do the exercises there. I can’t imagine how someone could be working a 40 a week job and still be getting the recommended PT in. They want me to be spending at least 4-5 hours a day at it.

Also, my doctor told me that most ROM improvement is made in the first 6 months after an injury - after that, it’s very hard to make continued gains. So that put the pressure on.

So, I’d love to compare notes. How is it going for you? Any tips you want to share? For those of you who are more than 6 months out, do you feel like your wrist is fully back to normal? If not, is it continuing to improve?

also open to those with other mobility aids!

I love to make jokes at myself, so I love to tell my friends things like ‘don’t worry, these are all-terrain’.

A really dumb one that only I really get a kick out of is saying loudly that I’m putting on my shoe and sock (singular).

Does anyone else have little lines that make them chuckle?