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Damaged wrist

86 replies

Flute56 · 26/11/2024 19:19

Two days ago I bashed my left hand on a swing door when I was opening it and it didn't hurt but a few hours later it was very painful and I couldn't lift anything with that hand so I saw the rest was broken so I went to get an X-ray and the x-ray said nothing broken but just badly sprained. My wrist and hand was putting a splint and I was told to just go home and see my GP if I needed further advice. 1 end of the wrist is extremely painful so I was convinced that there was a hairline fracture but the doctor said nothing showed up on the x-ray but it is still extremely painful when any pressure is put to it so I'm going to my GP to ask for a further examination and I would like to know what the x-ray said if there's any tendon damage or anything like that and the reason why it is more painful at one end of the wrist and the other and also this Hospital doctor said to me it will be better within seven to ten days and I don't think she should say that because how does she know people get better at their own rates. I spoke to a friend of mine he used to working a hospital and she said are you sure that doctor was an orthopaedic doctor because sometimes when their short of staff they get another Doctor Who isn't and orthopaedic doctor just to cover I said I want someone to explain what they saw on the x-ray not just fog me off with oh it's not a fracture because I don't know if I've got tendon damage or what she didn't say and I'm on very strong the painkillers which masks the pain which means I can use the hand but because I'm using the hand with the stronger painkillers once they wear off my wrist will be twice as painful because I've been using it and putting stress to whatever is wrong with it so I'm going to get a second opinion because this doctor at the hospital said to me what job do you do and I said I work with computers can I type oh yes she said you can type what I can't type no way it's going to put stress on the finger stress on the the wrists and everything that don't think she should have said that

OP posts:
NineDaysQueen · 29/11/2024 11:30

Iwontlethtesungodownonme · 29/11/2024 10:01

I wasn’t trying to bully anyone. I was merely saying these things can be managed. You seem to be in a state of panic over it.

No-one is bullying here

JollyGreenSnake · 29/11/2024 11:51

Kindly OP, you've posted on a discussion forum but you don't seem interested in any perspective other than your own.

ThianWinter · 29/11/2024 11:53

If you genuinely think you have a missed fracture - and it does happen - contact the orthopaedic team at the hospital you were treated for the wrist sprain and ask for a review.

Flute56 · 29/11/2024 12:42

NineDaysQueen · 29/11/2024 11:29

How is asking for some form of punctuation so that your posts are easier to read, bullying?

It's not what you say it's how you say it you said it and I have grown up with a very bullying a mother who verbally bullied and abused me and when she passed away I was so relieved I thought good riddance I don't have to put up with her verbally abuse anymore and I don't have to put up with anybody's further abuse on here I'm not coming back on here ever ever again life is too short and I shouldn't have to keep justifying myself because nobody here and understands you just do what you do and say what you say and I've had enough and I am going to try and find a way of deleting my profile

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SoupDragon · 29/11/2024 13:05

NineDaysQueen · 29/11/2024 11:29

How is asking for some form of punctuation so that your posts are easier to read, bullying?

It was nasty and unnecessary. It's hardly difficult to read the OP's posts, unless you have a problem with comprehension

TwinklyAmberOrca · 29/11/2024 18:35

Flute56 · 28/11/2024 23:36

You say you damage the tendon in your ankle and you didn't miss a single day off work well bully for you I'm glad I don't know you in real life because I would not go anywhere near you you were just a nasty bully

Well it would appear 94% of Mumsnet are therefore bullies who have said that YABU.

Telling someone to be more resilient is not bullying.

Being told not waste valuable NHS resources in an already over-loaded system is not bullying.

Being resilient is a really important skill in life. As a teacher in a secondary school I spent a lot of time encouraging resilience in kids.

MrTiddlesTheCat · 29/11/2024 20:22

Flute56 · 28/11/2024 23:59

Let me also say that I had a wash and blow dry at the hairdressers because with a sprained wrist I cannot wash and blow dry my own hair and I bet some people on here would have something negative to say about that and as far as my job is concerned when I told them that I wanted to work from the home because of the situation with traveling and carrying a laptop they were fine about it they did not turn round and see have you tried putting your lap in her backpack over your back so you've got two hands Jesus bully I'm glad I don't work for any of you loved because if I had any of you as my boss I would be looking for another job because I've had buses with your attitude in the past and I haven't stayed I've left and looked for another job because life is too short to work for a bully

Give over. I had some sympathy for you until this post, which is ridiculous. Following a fall, I currently have a torn TFCC ligament which needs to surgically reattached, a damaged thumb joint which needs replacing, and torn ligaments between the lunate and scaphoid bones which cannot be repaired so the bones will be permantly fused together, leaving me permantly disabled. Some nights I can't sleep because of the pain. I still make it into work though. I take my laptop and lunch in a small wheelie suitcase.

MrTiddlesTheCat · 29/11/2024 20:27

And I manage to wash and dry my hair myself.

ThinWomansBrain · 29/11/2024 20:29

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Makingchocolatecake · 29/11/2024 21:51

They have probably suggested 7-10 days because they see hundreds of similar injuries and know the average/normal healing time.

DuckDuckG00se · 29/11/2024 22:13

No one's bullying you, they're just disagreeing.

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