General Medical Question - Non Urgent - Thumb/Wrist Injury

~AngelofLove~ · 27-09-2011, 09:14 AM

A week and a day ago I lost my balance and landed on my wrist against the couch arm, it slipped down and my wrist bent back even more... Friday I went to the doctor and she said I severely sprained my wrist and put me in a thumb spica brace... The x-rays showed no fractures...

Now I'm in even more pain... Yesterday I missed a few stairs and hit my knees and fell on my wrist again. I'm swelling more and am bruised even more... My thumb is now paleish...

Can I wait till wednesday to go back to the doctor? What are the possibilities I did something more?

x-dying-inside-x · 27-09-2011, 10:37 AM

If you have fell on it again I would say go to the doctors asap.
xxx

Jetforce · 27-09-2011, 02:34 PM

Grab some ice and wrap it around a towel and apply to the area that swollen for 10mins then leave it off for 10mins, that should ease the swelling. But i would see a doc about your wrist and just to be doublely sure you didn't fracture it...hope that helps.

businessbroadband · 29-09-2011, 12:35 PM

As you have re-injured your wrist you definitely need to go to doctor or it may go more worse.

-Carpe Diem · 01-10-2011, 06:12 PM

Go to a&e and get re-Xrayed/go to a different dr.
I did something similar and it turned out to be a scaphoid fracture (notoriously difficult to spot on X-rays) whic,h if left un-treated can get very nasty.

x_blackrose_x · 02-10-2011, 08:18 PM

I would go back to the docs and get it re x-rayed, Explain that you fell again and that you are still in alot of pain. As whispers in the dark mentioned scapoid fractures are hard to spot soon after then initial fall, the cortex of the bone may only have a subtle hairline to start with, however after 10 days the bone may become sclerotic indicating fracture.