Injuries - September 2007

Ow... IT HURTS

2007-09-21 08:37:31 · 5 answers · asked by marcdesco 2

recently i was hit by a old lady on my bike and had to get stitches in my foot today i got them out and after a week my foot is still swollen and really red i was wondering if its infected or not my doctor set me up with some antibiotics and im going for a mri tomorrow but here are some pictures

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2007-09-21 06:16:29 · 4 answers · asked by ledzeppelin66677 1

2007-09-21 06:02:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have had a cast on my lower leg for the fracture of a small bone in the base of my toe.
The cast has now broken and is of absolutely no use at all as it no longer immobilizing my foot.
I can't get an appointment to have it removed for 3 weeks and so I was hoping that someone could give me some tips on how to remove this, now cumbersome and totally useless , fiberglass cast ... (not to mention extremely uncomfortable) myself?
There is obviously a safety issue here, so without anything too drastic, like the possibility of sawing off my leg, is there a safe way of removing this cast? Perhaps soaking it in water for a long period of time?
Please help! I need this cast removed! I live alone and have no family or friend support system in place, so I obviously need to be more mobile! As my cast is no longer giving me any healing benefits I want to get it off!
Help?! Please? :-)

2007-09-21 00:56:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was coaching Special Olympic Bowling . I demonstrated the foot slide but wore street shoes. Later in the day my knee was major pain. I figured exercise would help it. One month later I still hobble.

2007-09-21 00:02:50 · 3 answers · asked by itsmyopinionsothere 7

Anyone else suffered from tendonitis in thearm - how did you deal with it? Any advice to ease pain etc., ? thank you

2007-09-20 21:05:48 · 7 answers · asked by tkf57 3

About four weeks ago I fell and hit my forehead on corner of a piece of furniture. I had a black eye afterwards and large bruise on my temple and below the eye on the cheek as well. The doctor said I was okay and sent me home. He took an x-ray and said that it didn't show any damage. While the black eye is healed I have a noticable ridge in my skull that runs from just under my hair line down through the temple to my eye sockett as well as from the lower part of the eye sockett to the middle of my cheek bone. Is it possible that the doc was wrong? It is really sore and I have occasional headaches in that temple area but nothing over whelming. Since so much time has passed, is it worth it to go somewhere else and have another doc look at it?

2007-09-20 19:47:25 · 5 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7

My son broke his femur a couple of weeks ago. As a result he was given a pin in his leg and it was set. He is home now and doing some movement after being in bed for most of the days after his surgery. He now hears a swueeking or rubbing in the area where he received the pin. Is this from over exerting it to early after surgery or is this normal, he feels no pain in the area but he is just concerned is all.

2007-09-20 18:02:31 · 3 answers · asked by Bruno H 1

I did this afternoon at school and it was embarrassing!-_-..curse those stairs.But the kids in my school were nice...they asked if i was ok..how bout u...do u trip UP the stairs?

2007-09-20 17:31:13 · 9 answers · asked by pd5119 5

Hi everyone, I had a cramp on my hamstring while sitting in an awkward position almost 2 months ago. I was perfectly fine after that.

Until I first exercised after the cramp, I could feel sharp pain then. The pain was not felt during exercise, but after it.

It's at the back of my knee and a 2 or 3 cm up to the direction of my thigh. Whenever I bend or squat cos of visiting the loo, I get the sharp pain. The pain is felt greatest when my leg is in bend position, and I place the calf away from my thigh. (usually when u squat, your calf touches your thigh).

And whenever I try to recover from squat or just a bend of my knee(occurs for a period), I feel strain on that pain area, it's like a muscle tear and I have to stretch a few times to ease off the 'muscle tear' like pain.

Any idea what has happened to me? I had stopped exercising for quite awhile, but the pain was still there, it doesn't seem to go away.

2007-09-20 15:23:34 · 2 answers · asked by Adel 2

I have a sprained ankle and I hated crutches so I stopped using them and now I'm playing around like usual and I'm even playing volleyball.

2007-09-20 14:21:23 · 7 answers · asked by LilMsDetroit313 1

2007-09-20 12:25:22 · 4 answers · asked by Dbear 2

it fell with her on it, shattered everywhere, and she is sore from the fall, but not cut(luckily)... does she have a case???...
im not sure where to catagorize this one...

2007-09-20 09:43:26 · 30 answers · asked by kim t 4

and had to have a plaster cast on your foot, would the airlines advise you not to fly in case of any swelling when airborne.

2007-09-20 06:42:42 · 9 answers · asked by bjmlewis 5

-it happen 2 weeks ago today.
-the worst of the injury was to the #3 metacarpo-phalangeal joint and the #4 proximal interphalangeal joint (severe swelling and pain).
I when to A&E(Emergency) the day after it happen and got xray but they could see any fracture.
They didn't say to imobilise the joints or anything.
Alot of the swelling has now gone down around the #3 MP joint but the #4 PIP joint is more swollen around the lateral regions and the entire #4 digit looks deformed. It's also slightly stiff.
Could there be a fracture at the #3 PIP that wasn't noticed on the xray?
Should i imobilise the joint? any help appreciated...

2007-09-20 06:02:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

my friends getting on cuz he broke his leg...

hes getting screws and rods put in.

how long would that take?

2007-09-20 05:53:34 · 1 answers · asked by eye_dee_kay 2

my doctor said its not permanent.... but is it goin to heal 100%??? i feel no numb on my elbow or swelling. its just weak.

2007-09-20 02:51:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

about 2 months ago i went to my first basketball game and i enjoyed it very much, i was screaming for the home team, etc etc
during the game my throat began to hurt and i was really hoarse and scratchy
its not like i had the greatest voice to begin with, but now everytime i sing it sounds sooo horrible. before, my voice flowed smoothly and now i sound like ashlee simpson when she had "acid reflux"
WHAT IS THIS??
how can i get my voice flowing again?

2007-09-19 18:48:15 · 7 answers · asked by llovesurmom 3

hurts really bad

2007-09-19 15:11:28 · 7 answers · asked by jamie k 2

I got my back brace on August 9, 2007. About a month ago. I have to wear it 16 out of the 24 hours a day. I get 8 hours free of it everyday, which is a good thing. On August 20, 2007... I had to go my orthopedic and get an X-ray with the brace on to see if the brace is helping with the curve. I had a 30 degree curve on the top of my spine, and with the brace on... my curve decreased to 16 degrees! On the bottom of my spine, I had a curve of 21 degrees and it decreased to 2 degrees! I have to go back in about 2 1/2 months so they can take an X-ray of me WITHOUT the brace in to see if my spine is staying like this even without the brace on. I have to take it off 24 hours before the appointment so my back muscles can relax. I'm really nervous that my back will go back to the bad degrees for that appointment and I will need surgery! I get this brace off in about 2 years. Will I need surgery? I'm so scared. I DON'T want surgery! I am finding all the positives in the negative! HELP!

2007-09-19 13:09:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

( besides icepack or heatpack)

2007-09-19 07:32:13 · 2 answers · asked by acey227 2

Lately these last couple days, I've noticed once or twice throughout the day, that there will be a little muscle twitching. First it was my thumb the other day, and just now it was a muscle on my inner forearm. Lasted about 10..15 seconds. I do work fast food so I work my arms and hands alot so I figure its from overworking my arms/hands, but am I right?

2007-09-19 06:38:02 · 10 answers · asked by Oscar H. 1

what should i do to not get suspended by the way the kid isnt that badly hurt i broke it after 2 puhnches then put him in a head lock cuz i knew it was broken

2007-09-19 03:33:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have pain in both buttocks for more than 1 week now. I don`t know why, its just started hurting, on the cheeks. Its definatly not damaged tailbone, there is no pain there, its all on the muscles. It hurts and is not getting better. What do i have? Should i see my doctor and get a referral to see a physio? Could a physio help with this?

2007-09-19 02:41:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was playing basketball today in PE and I went up for a rebound and the ball came off the rim really sharply and smashed into my finger. It hurt really bad, but I kept playing. Then is started bleeding internally and I can't move it anymore

2007-09-18 20:04:51 · 8 answers · asked by Baptized Disciple 5

I have what looks to be a hangnail on my thumb. Usually if I have one, it'll go away in a couple days, but this one has been here for about a week, and there's this bubble-like wound thing right beside the upper corner of my nail - and it hurts sooo much worse than a hangnail. And the bubble isn't full of liquid or anything (gross, I know) it's just like really really swollen very tender bloody skin.

I cut the nail so that it doesn't grow into the bubbly thing, and I've been putting neosporin on it every night, and I tried to drain any pus that could have been in it - but I didn't see any.

I have a doc appt on Friday, so yeah I know "Go see a doctor" common response, but I was just wondering if anyone else has ever had this? Or if anyone even knows what I'm talking about.

2007-09-18 19:39:03 · 3 answers · asked by Holly GoLightly 2

today i have these shot thingys for a pet, and one of the shots which had medicine had been pushed, and all the medicine went into the cap (that is over the needle for protection) and i was trying to pull out the shot out of the cap so i could suck the stuff back into the needle but it wouldnt come out, so i pulled hard and it came out the needle poked my finger, and that needle had medicine on it, so i squeezed my finger, and it bled, and i rinsed it off and put hydrogine poroxide on it, and not one bubble came out, but it bled so i put a bandaid on it.
now this was an animals shot, NOT USED at all yet,
later after that, my fingers and hand tingled and ached, and now they feel fine, i had no other effedts, i ate and nothing happend or anything, everything normal, but i was told that the stuff on the needle was animal pain medicine, and im wandering will it do anything bad to me later on???
cuz all that happend was tingling and aches, but now its gone, is everything gonna be okay???

2007-09-18 18:02:48 · 6 answers · asked by powerball 2

I play field hockey and we run a 1.5 to 2 mile 3 times a week atleast. I keep getting these pains on my shin and my knee cap. Should I skip practice for a day or two and ice and rest. I don't know if I should skip It really hurts though, when I stand, walk, and run. I get these shooting pains up my leg. What should I do?

2007-09-18 14:29:10 · 5 answers · asked by murmurlover 1

i was in a bad car wreck yesterday we rolled our van 4 times. somehwere in all that i hit my head on something because it was bleeding. now a day after the wreck i cant remember exactly what happened i know i was in a wreck but it almost doesnt seem liek it happened and i dont remember anything about the wreck itself. i have had a headache since the accident. do i have a concussion?

2007-09-18 14:26:02 · 8 answers · asked by Ryan R 1

2007-09-18 11:24:03 · 4 answers · asked by david 1