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Old 05-18-2008, 05:37 PM
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So to make a long story shot, the damn cat tripped me up while i was walking out into the garage and i kinda kicked the edge of the door. It it was hurning liek a bitch lastnight and today is a tingley and numb and is hard to move... but doesn't hurt...and it purple. I'm pretty sure it's broken....

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Old 05-18-2008, 05:39 PM
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Are you a hobbit?
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Old 05-18-2008, 05:41 PM
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**** off! I was wearing my driving shoes all day (auto-x day) and i cant spread my toes apart since i did this. And thats a size 11 foot right there...not a damn hobbit.
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Old 05-18-2008, 05:59 PM
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nice hairy toes. Just stick some foam between the last 3 toes and tape it up...that's all any doctor would do.
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Broken? Not likely Can you wiggle it, even a little? . Bruised and hemorrhaged a bit definitely.

Throw some ice on that little piggy to take down the swelling and down advils for the next few days to help it out.
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I can BARELY move it...and it's been popping as i walk..yuck. I can't say i've ever funked up one of my toes like this before...
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Ive had mytoes looking like that in the past from stubbing and dropping stuff. Grin and bear it cause a doc cant do anything anyways
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yeah not much anyone could do for it besides ice it, support it and keep off it
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Usually if its broken you would know. Can you walk on it ok? It does look pretty bad, usually stubbed toes don't swell up that much. Motin is my aspirin of choice.

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yeah not much anyone could do for it besides ice it, support it and keep off it
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A bunch of years ago, somebody convinced me that I should take my maybe-broken toe to the hospital cause "Oh, yeah, nowadays they can do something to help." Wrong, again. 3 hours hanging out in the ER with a bunch of addicts and genuinely hurt people. Cost me $200 to find out my toe was broken and they couldn't do a thing.
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last time i went to a doctor was because a freight elevator door smashed my middle finger. I turbocharged my car that weekend and when the swelling didn't die down I went in. It broke in three places. They cast my entire arm, and that lasted 3 days when I cut it off and splinted the finger. When it came time the "remove" the cast, the doctor was shocked, but xrays showed it healed 100%.

Broke my toe once falling down the stairs, played basketball on that one a few hours later...went to the doctor the next day, and they said it's broke and they couldnt do anything.
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looks broke to me. splint it up and walk with a pimp cane.
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I wonder if it could be dislocated if it's not broken. I can walk with a hobble and ok if i walk with my weight on the inside of my foot.
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Pain tolerance is a big factor in hospital visits too. I know people that go to the hospital if they have a bad cough.

When I snapped my ligament off my wrist, I continued working pouring concrete and humping forms all day long for 6 months till I had this surgery. My ******* middle name is pain...

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maybe if you didn't wear ballet slippers everywhere this wouldn't happen. :gay:
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Try to get the swelling down and feel along the bone. You may be able to feel bone grinding against bone (crepoitous) if it's broken. If it feels out of place you may want to pull gently on the front of it while gripping the tip of the bone to realign any broken pieces. Beyond that, everyone is pretty much right. Put a bit of gause and something solid between the two toes and bandage them together. Ice it, elevate and take some ibuprofen.
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get some of those toe spacers women use to paint toe nails out of your bathroom cabinet...***.
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elevate, ice, and ibuprofen.

I actually dislocated a finger playing soccer. not broke, but the last knuckle on my left ring finger went above the second to last. like this: __- ..a Z almost. I pulled it back myself. Basically I didn't do anything except ice the **** out of it until the swelling went down and go to physical therapy so I wouldn't be gimpy.

You dont need to do anything with it unless the swelling doesn't go down in a few days.
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I broke my pinky toe in December. It hurt like a bitch for a week. I went to the VA and sat there for 4 hours for them to Xray it and tell me it was broken. There was nothing they could do since I could walk on it already, and for me not run for 9 weeks.

You might have broke it, but no biggy, probably.

BTW If you ever have any fantasy about how good Government Healthcare would be, go set at a VA Clinic/Hospital.

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