Leave it? Or have it checked by nurse, GP? I guess only an X-ray could tell if there is a fracture.

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I tripped and fell last week, slap bang onto the pavement. I put my hands out to break the fall, and my wrists took the brunt of it. Five days on and one of them feels fine, but the other not so. It's not visibly swollen, I can rotate my hand around, but it just hurts - a deep inside dragging ache.

I've had it in a tubigrip thing and tried not to use it too much.
Any idea what to do to speed healing? I had hoped it would have stopped hurting by now, like the other side. I figure that there's nothing much I can do except take painkillers, but how long should it take to stop hurting? Even if I have broken a bone in it, there's not much I can do is there?

All advice welcome!

You need to get an xray - its possible you've broken one of the small bones in your wrist, and that will need immobilising and possibly surgery if it doesn't knit. The scaphoid is a beggar for not joining up