Have I broken my wrist?

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I fell over on my slippery wooden decking, down from one level to the next ( about 1m) and put out my arm as you do instructively. So my wrist hurts and edge of my knee, but I can move my wrist it and all my fingers. It hurts to push or lift and I've taken painkillers but it's a mild hurt at rest, increased pain if I do anything. Chances it's just bruised ?

Or instinctively even

A fall on an out stretched hand is one of the easiest way to break your wrist. Being able to move it doesn’t rule out a fracture. Is there any swelling or deformity?

I think the only way to rule out a fracture is to get it x-rayed. Do you have a MIU with x Ray near by?

Not sure, but this is my only experience with a mild broken wrist, hope this helps:
When my daughter cracked a bone in her wrist, the first aider at school asked her to
1.make a fist, ( she couldn’t)

1. Hold out her hand flat with palm facing down, then turn it so that the palm faced up ( she couldn’t)

So off we went off to A&E for an X-ray, feeling very unsure if we werewaisting anyone’s time, but it confirmed a hairline fracture.
Only really an X-ray can confirm...

When I broke my wrist I absolutely knew it. It didn't just hurt, it felt incredibly weird. I knew in seconds.

It will become pretty painful and probably swell up if its broken.

Take your rings off now just in case

Noone can give you a definite answer to that...you should get it xrayed

I can move my wrist it and all my fingers.

I couldn't have moved my wrist or hand at all. There was a kind of lack of feeling. Not numbness, just an absence of it. That time, and when I broke my finger as a teenager, are the only times I've ever had that sensation.

Do you have sausage fingers? I came off a bike at a very slow speed and put my hand out to break my fall. Got up and painfully rode home. Ended up going to A&E for an X-ray as I got sausage fingers - I had broken my triquetral bone - a little pyramid shaped bone in my wrist. Cast for a fortnight (nightmare) and then a splint which was MUCH easier to deal with.

Ds has broken his wrist twice. Both times playing football. once was a crack and once was a buckle fracture.

He has very impressive pain thresholds the PE department tell me. he can do all the movements claiming no pain and finished the PE lesson.

What is distinctive for him is the wrist swells. Not really visibly, but as soon as you use a tape measure it's clear.

Better to get it checked out than not know. The first time he did it, we left it a few days because he said it wasn't hurting, and it took much longer to mend.

Remove any rings and get it xrayed.

You need an X-ray.
I broke my right wrist and waited a week thinking I had just sprained it.
When I broke the left one a year later I heard it crack.
Neither looked deformed.

Oh, and I could still moved my hand and fingers both times.

if there is swelling best get it checked. It is possible you have broken it and not realised... this happened to first time I broke it...I didn't really cry make/ a fuss and wasn't untill weeks later when I fell again and my parents took my to a&e they realised then it had to be rebroken and set correctly.

In total i have had broken wrist 4 separate times as a child and surgery 3 times to set/correct. After the first time I knew when I had broken a bone but I could always still move fingers/wrist it just REALLY hurt.

No swelling, no rings anyway. It's my right hand. It hurts quite a bit. My only option would be A&E 30 minutes away, no other walk ins. Typical now it's the weekend 🙄

@Crocky how did you do it? I feel the fall was reasonable enough to do damage, although I also hit my knee, no bruise yet, so maybe not full force on the wrist. I've never broken a bone before now, and I'm 40.

When my dd broke her wrist it was pretty obvious as her wrist looked a bit deformed. She could wiggle her fingers and move her hand. When she moved her hand to face up for the X-ray that really hurt.

I had a fall like you, and my wrist and hand blew up and went black. I went to a&e and was told soft tissue damage. Two days later got a phone call to say my xray had been reviewed and it looked like I'd broken the scaphoid bone.
Went back and had it put in plaster for two weeks.
Very long story involving months of seeing different doctors who said it was broken/not broken/arthritis/tendonitis, physios giving me contradicting advice, all sorts of splints, steroid injections.
Eventually after more than two years I saw a fantastic surgeon who said I'd actually snapped the tendons on my hand.
I had my thumb played, and I was just about healed up when I managed to trip up and broke the plate.
There wasn't enough bone to replace it, so now I've had the trrapezium bone removed and a sling stitched in.
Hopefully you'll not go through all that though!

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