u/chronikally_cautious

(I'm sorry for the novel)

Hello, I would love some insight if anyone may have any. I am 12 days out from an ORIF procudre on my left distal wrist. I have my first post op with my surgeon tomorrow. I broke the distal end of my radius pretty badly and it needed a graft. (Distal radius fracture with significant comminution in the metaphysis intra-articular extension displacement. Ulnar diaphysis fracture of the distal aspect of the ulnaI didn't find this out until after.) My surgery took a long time, like 4 hours. I don't remember seeing my doc post op but she talked to my mom who was with me . I have a plate and screws on both the ulna and radius. I have incisions on both sides of my wrist.

The last thing I remember is getting versed before my nerve block. I woke and my arm was completely numb yet I was in the worst pain of my life. That nerve block is the most painful thing I have ever experienced. They gave me morphine and it didn't touch the pain so they gave me dilauded and that finally made the pain manageable enough to come home. I was absolutely miserable until the nerve block wore off. Now that the swelling has gone down I have been have mainly been struggling with nerve stuff.

I feel it the worst around my incisions and the heel of my palm.My incisions are definitely super sensitive and painful up against the surgical splint. Those are the only areas that get super painful. I do have some tingling in my fingers mainly my pinky ring and some times my thumb. I had some nasty muscle injury in the Pronator quadratus, my surgeon had to remove fragments of bone from the muscle tissue. Sometimes I feel tingles in my elbow but I chalked that up to the nasty bruising I had there from the E.R cast. My fingers and arm don't hurt if I touch them and the tingles don't affect my movement, sebsation if just a little funny. There are the same color as my other hand. I wake in the morning pain free and no nerve issues. The nerve issues start up once I'm out of bed a moving around and the progressively worsens through the day. I noticed my adhd meds sometimes helps take the edge off and I alternate tramadol (seems to be most effective compared to the percentage 5s they sent me home with.) And ibuprofen. I can usually get through the day without tramadol and using lots of ice. At night I usually need tramadol to help me get to bed.

Does this sound like crps or nerve irritation? Is there anything that I should know, or be doing to help resolve or prevent further issues? Is there anything specific I should be talking to my surgeon about or asking for? I really just want to be proactive and imvery anxious that this may be the onset of crps.

(I figured I should add I was only able to take 2 days off post op, my surgeon knows. My job is already light duty. I walk the hallways of a hotel and sit at my desk. I a able to rest as needed, ice when ever I need it and lots of help from co workers)

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I am two weeks post op from ORIF surgery to fix some extensive fractures in my wrist. I have two plates, some screws and a bone graft. After finding out, (2 weeks too late) that ibuprofen may impact bone growth I decided to look into what the science says about adhd meds. All of the studies were done with children but it still seems concerning to me. I plan to research more after work.

Spoiler alert, it's not good. Some studies show it slow fracture healing by up to 20% and other studies that consistent use of stimulants depletes bone density, some studies show significant none density loss.

Has anyone here had problems healing a fracture? I plan to mention this to my surgeon on Tuesday.

I'm just almost 2 weeks post op from my surgery and I'm so anxious for my post op appointment on Tuesday. I had a pretty significant fracture of my distal radius that needed a bone graft and a much less severe one on my distal ulnar shaft. I've been having some nerve pain and mild numbness but it's not affecting the movement of my fingers at the moment. I also injured my pronator quadratus muscle pretty badly.My surgeon had to remove shards of bone from the muscle. I'm really hoping that this muscle injury is causing the pain I get towards the end of my day. It's deep painful ache that only seems to happen at the end of my day or if I spend too much time out of the sling. If I get decent sleep which I usually do I wake up feeling pretty good. I haven't done anything I shouldn't and haven't had any falls or injuries at all since.

Just anxious clutz terrified I'll need another surgery. I imagine the plates and screws are fairly strong and I would hope it would take a noticeable amount of force to displace something.

Hey y'all. I already called my surgeon to move my post op appointment a couple days sooner. I go to see her on the 7th. I'm 8 days post of from an extensive ORIF for my left radius and ulna. My surgery was 4½ hours. "Distal radius fracture with significant comminution in the metaphysis intra-articular extension displacement. Ulnar diaphysis fracture of the distal aspect of the ulna" is what my report said. I had plates placed on both bones through two seperate incisions along with screws. I also had bone graph placed to help the smaller pieces heal.

I was just starting to feel good. My pain was decreasing and my fingers were feeling good with the ROM practice for my fingers. Over the last 24-36hrs nerve pain has been increasingly worse. I feel it the most in the heel of my hand, my pinky, ring finger and sometimes in my thumb. Has anyone dealt with this? Did it get better once the cast from surgery is off? I worried that need a carpel tunnel release after this.

Again, I did reach out to my surgeon but I just wanted to ask if anyone had this resolve on its own with time and just eondeting if theres anything I can do relieve it in the mean time.

Hey y'all. I'm 4 days post op from surgery on my wrist to fix my fractured wrist. I shattered it when I fell backwards and caught myself with my left hand. I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else dealt with depression after being under anesthesia. My surgery was long, it took like 3½-4 hrs. My nerve block finally wore off thank god. That was the most uncomfortable/painful thing so far. I really wish I declined nerve block. Now that I have feeling and full movement back my pain is very minimal but I woke up so incredibly down today. I had tears in my eyes as soon as I woke up pretty much. I haven't been able to stop crying. I don't t really know what I'm looking for in writing this post. Just looking to hear others experiences. My arm and hand feel the best they have since I broke it yet I'm so teary and feel so down today.