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Broken arms and a sprained wrist
Posted: 07-03-08 07:01am

I fell in the shower seven weeks ago and my Wrist, hand, and thumb are still sore. I fell on an outstretched hand. I got soap in my eyes and as I tried to turn around I slipped while I had both hands on the wall. My right one in back of me and my left on the side of me and as I fell, both hands went all the way down until I reached the tub surround. My left thumb bent inward underneath my left hand when I hit the tub surround. The pain immediately begun and it was awful. Do you think it might be more than just a sprain?

I got it checked out and they diagnosed me as a sprained wrist and hand. But it is still sore, swollen, and bruised, so I got a referral to Orthopedics. It is swollen on the palm side of my hand where the thumb is and near the wrist and there is a bump also on one of my thumb bones

This was because when I got surgery on my ankle in April, a few weeks later, I tried to take a shower and not put alot of weight on my ankle and that is how I fell. As I turned around


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Posted: 07-04-08 12:31pm

Current medical status: Hurt Wrist, Thumb, and Hand
Current medical treatment: Advil

A more serious injury than a sprained wrist, extended tendons, or contused muscles is a broken bone of the arm, but that can be proven only with an X-ray image.


You may want to consult the orthopedist, which you were referred to, about your problem.





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