Could you break/fracture a toe without really realising you did so?

Silent Runner

I know the question is bit of an oxymoron, but is it possible?

I hit my toe off a rock cause my foot kinda slipped. It was kinda sore but it didn't stop me from doing anything. I'm not looking for medical advice, but I heard it said before that people have broken or fractured their toe without realising it, is this true? Has this ever happened to you?

ShoulderChip

Silent Runner wrote: »

I know the question is bit of an oxymoron, but is it possible?

I hit my toe off a rock cause my foot kinda slipped. It was kinda sore but it didn't stop me from doing anything. I'm not looking for medical advice, but I heard it said before that people have broken or fractured their toe without realising it, is this true? Has this ever happened to you?

How could someone honestly answer that?

TeddyTedson

You sure could. Happens to lots of people!

Professey Chin

I did it before to my toe.Took about a day to realise.
Of course when I noticed it was about 3 times its normal size the next day I knew something was off

FatherLen

with a full break i reckon you would find it hard to walk a fracture i would say you might not notice it. but hey i am not a doctor............yet.


nah i aint a doctor.

Up-n-atom!

ShoulderChip wrote: »

How could someone honestly answer that?

I can, coz I'm a grade A dumbass sometimes! Something similar happened to me years ago with my wee toe, it swelled up and was really sore, but it was ok in the end. Same when I banged my nose as a kid. Reading this it looks like I should've been taken into care or something - really, my parents weren't bad!

Kiera

Yup it can happen, i fractured my ankle and walked around on it for a week thinking it was only a sprain.

spinandscribble

its happened to my mom and nan. Its common enough not to realise it.

ShoulderChip

Up-n-atom! wrote: »

I can, coz I'm a grade A dumbass sometimes! Something similar happened to me years ago with my wee toe, it swelled up and was really sore, but it was ok in the end. Same when I banged my nose as a kid. Reading this it looks like I should've been taken into care or something - really, my parents weren't bad!

but you realised.

Pompey Magnus

Silent Runner wrote: »

I'm not looking for medical advice, but I heard it said before that people have broken or fractured their toe without realising it, is this true? Has this ever happened to you?

I know of an old guy who suffered from diabetes (which causes diminished blood circulation in the extremities) who lost his big toe without realising it...yes lost as in it just fell off when he was at home one day and he never felt it go.

As for breaking toes without knowing I'm not so sure but I'm pretty sure I broke my coccyx in a fight when I was 17, I am in agony for long drives / flight still.

Silent Runner

ShoulderChip wrote: »

but you realised.

Well that is what I'm asking!

It would be really stupid if everyone came on here and started wondering if they broke their toe before in their life now wouldn't it!?

I mean did they realise after a few days or so.

Aoifey!

Go to the doctor?

Kimono-Girl

yes you can.

my 2nd toe on my right foot is broken, there are two separate bones in there i can wiggle about. must have hapened when i was younger either way i never noticed it until recently (my toes were always weird to me and there is no pain)

El Horseboxo

I found out last week that i have a displaced fracture on my arm just below the elbow. Happened 6 weeks ago but i thought i just pulled something working out. It was sore but just felt tender when i would touch it or rotated my arm. Still lifted weights until last week when i hurt too much. X ray revealed the fracture and malunion or something to that effect.

ShoulderChip

Silent Runner wrote: »

Well that is what I'm asking!

It would be really stupid if everyone came on here and started wondering if they broke their toe before in their life now wouldn't it!?

I mean did they realise after a few days or so.

Oh I see,

I thought you wanted to know if someone did something and still hasn't noticed.
a question to which you can never say yes to nor no

Up-n-atom!

ShoulderChip wrote: »

but you realised.

But not really! I still don't know for sure - my toe is fine now, it didn't swell up until after I banged it, same with my nose (which is still slightly dented now!)

Kiera

Up-n-atom! wrote: »

But not really! I still don't know for sure - my toe is fine now, it didn't swell up until after I banged it, same with my nose (which is still slightly dented now!)

Were you doing the can-can?

Magic Eight Ball

I dropped a 10kg weight on my foot in the gym a few years back. Pretty sure I broke one or more toes.
Couldn't be fecked going the gp, sorted itself out in the end. :pac:

OutlawPete

XRay slides or gtfo.

Yes, you can have a hairline fracture and you wouldn't feel a sausage.

Silent Runner

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

I dropped a 10kg weight on my foot in the gym a few years back. Pretty sure I broke one or more toes.
Couldn't be fecked going the gp, sorted itself out in the end. :pac:

+1 Why go to the doctor when I can do this!

Silent Runner

Silent Runner wrote: »

+1 Why go to the doctor when I can do this!

Beacuse something like this might happen.

stovelid

Fractured my thumb once and didn't go and get it checked out for a week or two. Thought it was just sprained and it wasn't as painful as you would think.

That said. I did it to my ankle and collarbone before and there was no doubting that.

garv123

i broke my big toe in a minor match 2 years ago. played on the match and in the dressing room it began to get sore.
basically the said theres no point goin to the doctor/ A&E because theres feck all they can do about it i left it be anyway and its grand now just slightly bent. :pac:

leddpipe

absolutely!i had a spiral fracture on my fibula!thought it was a bad sprain,took a trip to A&E on the third day to make me the wiser! :rolleyes:

Silent Runner

garv123 wrote: »

i broke my big toe in a minor match 2 years ago. played on the match and in the dressing room it began to get sore.
basically the said theres no point goin to the doctor/ A&E because theres feck all they can do about it i left it be anyway and its grand now just slightly bent. :pac:

Exactly, there is no point in pay in the odds of 200 euro just to go to gp and get an x ray and be told rest. It's just a toe

Silent Runner

Silent Runner wrote: »

Exactly, there is no point in pay in the odds of 200 euro just to go to gp and get an x ray and be told rest. It's just a toe

Don't be so fecking stingy. It's not worth the risk of developing complications such as avascular necrosis which will cause you trouble for the rest of your life for the sake of a trip to the doctor.

garv123

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't be so fecking stingy. It's not worth the risk of developing complications such as avascular necrosis which will cause you trouble for the rest of your life for the sake of a trip to the doctor.

i wanted to go to the doctor i was told the doctor couldnt do anything so i dont see how its been stingy

PhysiologyRocks

A fractured bone is a broken bone.

Toe fractures may require treatment.

People quite often fracture bones and know nothing about it until it causes hassle later.

HoneyRyder

I've broken my wrist, thumb and ankle and each time it pretty much took a few days before I realised I should probably go to the hospital. I find being stuck in a cast the most annoying part of the process

This thread provides compelling evidence in favour of the argument that healthcare should be free at the point of access.

People with potentially serious injuries, which can have potentially serious complications, reluctant to see a doctor in the hope that it will "sort itself out".

Up-n-atom!

Kiera wrote: »

Were you doing the can-can?

Lol, no, wish I was that flexible! The nose thing happened when I was about 8, the toe some years later.

jokettle

I broke my baby toe last year by walking into a dresser (elegant, I know). It hurt, and it went a bit purple, but I walked/limped around for a week afterwards because I never thought it would be fractured. Also stocked up on loads of neurofen plus to keep the pain at bay :pac:

I happened to be in my GP's a week afterwards for something else, casually mentioned it to her and she said "yep, definitely broken" after just glancing at it! It was too late by then to do anything; she said if I had bandaged it to the next toe straighaway it would have been easier to walk around but by then I just had to wait for it to heal.

So, em, yeah OP, you can.