Nothing they can do about a broken toe is there. **pic** not very pretty.

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Kicked the sofa yesterday running to the baby.
It hit just across the middle of my little toe but the bit below is the most purple.

My toes went white for a while after, no blood flow.
Then this.
Hurts like buggery.

Sorry about the horrible nail, I think it lifted the nail too and now that lost awful as well.

I think I dislocated a toe foot knuckle thing just standing up of the sofa yep the bruising was hideous like that - black at one point.

Managed to break a middle toe doing grade 1 ballet a few months ago - still bloody hurts!

Glad you’re feeling better. However, if the colour and sensation hasn’t fully returned to the white toes, I’d still think it worth getting it seen.

To manage your mobility, I had an extremely stiff-sole medical boot (basically a sort of sandal with Velcro straps) when I broke my toe and it was a huge help with pain and moving around. Can you ask a pharmacy if they stock them? Or get some extremely stiff material and fashion yourself an insole in the widest footwear you have? You want the whole base of your foot resting on something very firm indeed.

I did have horrific bruising like you and it lasted for almost a month, which was a shock. I didn’t have any white toes though, and this was a risk factor they warned me to watch out for. So if your circulation has not fully returned or seems to be disinproving, go see somebody.

Best of luck.

Before the NHS stopped giving a fuck, 5th metatarsal was considered high risk for action prioritizing. But that was when there were proper doctors rather than nurses with a tinpot degree. I would let it go and sue if you end up with long term issues.

Me again. Im after some advice.

The swelling has reduced significantly now but what has become obvious is that the toe is dislocated.
I've included a picture of my normal foot with it's tucked in little toe. Then the damaged foot, the toe rotates outwards. It's no longer tucked in.

Whilst I'm completely unbothered by the aesthetics of course, it is causing me some problems.

I can't do simple tasks such as putting socks or trousers on without it catching.
My toe gets caught and it gets bent again.

I can basically predict that I will do future worse damage because of this.

I've tried strapping it to the other toe and this works for as long as it is strapped for but once unstrapped the problem remains.

I will be calling the GP next week but does anyone have experience with this?

I know someone mentioned upthread of a dislocated toe which I'm going to scroll back and read again now.

Any words of wisdom on how I can fix a dislocated toe.

Also annoyingly, now ALL my shoes are uncomfortable. Which is bloody irritating.

That's great thanks for the advice
😂😂

Go to A&E, if you've broken a metatarsal you'll need an X ray and a cast or boot.

Oh this is an old thread that you came back to. Doh!

So you got advice on the phone based on you not telling them everything (you didn't mention the bruising, nor the white toes) and now you look like you have a dislocated toe and you're asking if there is anything you can do to fix it?

I dunno, see a doctor in person?

Kick the sofa again and see if it pops back in?

Is go to minor injuries for an X-ray There May be a bone higher up the foot rather than the toe broken. Probably all bruising though.

You shouldn't have said to MI it was your toes. It's clearly the foot.

@clockworklime they said on the phone they wouldnt X-ray it. Even if it was dislocated.
So what was the point. She basically told me "we can look at it and strap it but that's all we would do."

I've strapped it. And I've looked at it.
What's the difference?

It's still dislocated though.

Are you a doctor? I really don't understand your approach here. If they said on the phone they need to break it and reset it, would you do that yourself as well?

Go to the doctor?

No. I'm a nurse.

And I know how to strap a toe.
Even a non-medical professional would be able to do that.

Anyway for an update for the more helpful people, I went along to MIU today and saw the nurse who advised me in the phone that they wouldn't X-ray.

She said she would have never said they wouldn't X-ray a dislocated toe. Just not a fractured toe.

So I clearly misunderstood the conversation.
I'm now going along on Monday for it to be x-rayed.
If it is dislocated then they can't reset it there because it's been too long. And I will have to be referred.

That's a shame!
And a lesson in trying to avoid wasting resources. Sometimes we need to suck it up and accept we need to bother our poor old NHS.

Actually it's so sad that genuinely poorly people make themselves ill trying to avoid bothering the nhs.

And a lesson in trying to avoid wasting resources.

I agree. And because of it I could end up wasting more resources. More fool me.

FWIW though, I knew exactly how the conversation went and feel I'm being really generous to the nurse who gave me advice by saying that I must have misunderstood the conversation.
But there's no point me dwelling on it.
A strong part of it was me simply thinking I didn't need a doctor or X-ray.

Yes, and also, without seeing the injury, it's easy to have preconceptions about what it is. You thought you knew, she thought she knew.

I really hope you get a comfortable resolution without too long a wait.

You thought you knew, she thought she knew.
I think that sums up the whole thing. That's exactly how I see it.
In future - I won't assume I know better.

You're going to the doctor? This was what I suggested - and apparently I'm one of the unhelpful ones.

Get well soon.

I never went to the doctor. I saw the nurse. X-ray tomorrow.

I did similar only it was the toe next to the little one, my whole foot looked bruised like yours. I had to wear crocs, the horror, for a week or two as they are quite big and accommodated the bandaged foot

When I go back to work after maternity leave I will be in theatres where they wear crocs. This is a good thing!

Just broken! Not dislocated so all will be fine.