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FAO : Anyone who's broken a bone before

  • 20-09-2006 12:49pm
    #1
    discosue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭


    Hi not sure if this is in the right section so can amod move it for me if I'm wrong please, thanks.

    I broke my foot at the end of May (5th Metatarsal fracture, common sports injury but it didn't happen while playing sports), I was in a cast for 4 1/2 wks, doctor in Beaumont said it had been healing very well so was able to start walking without my cast and keep my crutches, have now finished as of a few wks seeing the doc and also my physio, there's still a bump on the side of my foot where I broke it, also it can still get sore at times..........

    Is this normal has anyone ever had a lump/bump where they'd broken something months later?

    Sue


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  • #2
    c - 13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    I broke two of my fingers on my left hand and had to get a few pins in them to hold them. That was last november. theres still a lump at the base of one of my knuckes that wasnt there before, Could have been where they took the pin out.


  • #3
    discosue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭discosue


    I never had any pins put in, just a full cast, thanks anyway :)


  • #4
    CerebralCortex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    The bump is new bone matter afaik.


  • #5
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    CerebralCortex wrote:
    The bump is new bone matter afaik.
    Yeah it is. It's like if you get a cut and then scar tissue grows back to patch up the hole in your skin. The bump that you can still feel is (in simple terms) bone scars. ;)


  • #6
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    CerebralCortex wrote:
    The bump is new bone matter afaik.

    this is correct. doctors told me this is the lump i was left with in the hand bone of my small finger which broke and they couldnt set back correctly because of its location at the edge of the hand and their reluctance to put a pin in my hand. afaik its the calcium/bone built up


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  • #7
    discosue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭discosue


    BaZmO* wrote:
    Yeah it is. It's like if you get a cut and then scar tissue grows back to patch up the hole in your skin. The bump that you can still feel is (in simple terms) bone scars. ;)

    Ah so I see said the blind girl (me), thanks :)

    So any idea if it will go away? It's not huge but there's a definite difference, I find that certain runners/shoes dig into it ya see :(


  • #8
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Well I still have a lump on my nose from when I broke it about 5 years ago and a lump on my hand from when I broke it a year ago, so it's quite possible that you'll be stuck with it.

    If it's only a couple of months ago it may still be some swelling and could go down a little more.

    If it's still painful you should really go back to your doc about it.


  • #9
    discosue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭discosue


    Cheers thanks for the replies people....if it don't go away soon enough I'll have it checked


  • #10
    surfin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭surfin


    Hi Ya,
    Used to be into competitve dancing quite seriously over the years i have broken numerbous toes and each of my ankles twice.
    your 'lump' may go away but i know that one of my ankles is acompletely different shape to the other and i also broke the plate that holds you toes together when i was 15 and this then stopped growing so one foot is a size smaller than the other, now i know people often have different size feet but this is madly extreme.
    anyways best of luck with the healing process just dont push yourself to hard to soon!


  • #11
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    surfin wrote:
    so one foot is a size smaller than the other
    So do you have to buy 2 pairs of shoes when you need a new pair? Or do you just suffer with having either one fott crammed into a shoe that's too small or one foot swimming around in a shoe that's too big?


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  • #12
    discosue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭discosue


    surfin wrote:
    Hi Ya,
    Used to be into competitve dancing quite seriously over the years i have broken numerbous toes and each of my ankles twice.
    your 'lump' may go away but i know that one of my ankles is acompletely different shape to the other and i also broke the plate that holds you toes together when i was 15 and this then stopped growing so one foot is a size smaller than the other, now i know people often have different size feet but this is madly extreme.
    anyways best of luck with the healing process just dont push yourself to hard to soon!

    Haha the doctor in the hospital asked me if I was a dancer or a gymnast when I went in actually, never happened doing sports though, was my own stupid fault!

    Yeah as well as the side of my foot my ankle is different to my other one as well, slightly more raised but spongy unlike where it broke which is a hard lump, thanks for the reply, comforting to know there's others out there with odd shaped feet ;)


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