r/xrays

This is my second post about my arm. I just had a follow up with my orthopedic doctor. For context I was in a terrible car accident 9 months ago. I had an open compound fracture of my right humerus with significant nerve damage. Because of the extent of my trauma, they had to wait 4 days before doing surgery on my arm.

Again, it’s been 9 months and the bone still hasn’t healed. My doctor is reluctant to do surgery or call it an infection. I do appreciate the fact that he’s cautious because the surgery would really suck, but if this is an infection I’d rather get it done. I don’t have any symptoms like redness in the area or fluid or anything coming out of my arm. I did read some studies about others that had low level infection and virtually no symptoms. If you look at my previous numbers, you can see that everything is trending upward even if some of the numbers are on the higher end of normal. Again, I’m a little concerned that even though some of my numbers are “normal” they are at the high end and trending upward. Do they have to be mega high in order to call it an infection? I am going to get a CT Scan and hopefully that will show more.

My doctor also said that I could potentially live with the bone being broken as I have a lot of metal in there to keep it stable. But my arm kills of if I push or pull too hard and I can’t really put any pressure on it. I don’t want that to be my life forever. I’m 36 years old. I’ve never smoked or had nicotine or steroids apart from prednisone maybe one or two times. Ideally I would not like to live with a broken bone. I feel eventually the metal would come loose and I’d need surgery, right?? Wouldn’t it be better to get surgery while I’m still young rather than 15 years from now? I’m so confused and frustrated.

Is this the Gastric Bubble I’ve been reading about? Seems a bit low for the stomach, maybe intestines? I’ve seen these blotchy things on my X-ray and have been super curious about them.

This is 1 week after the accident

Got an xray done and I noticed the right side looks different to the left.

Recently broke a rib while coughing. Debating whether I should get an X-ray done or not.

Doc said that nothing can be done. All I can do is wait for it to heal and told me I could get an X-ray if I want.

I've had 3 chest X-rays done a month before this happened (all good according to the doctor) and about 50 dental X-rays in the last year. I'm afraid they are too trigger happy with the X-ray machine in the US.

If you were in my position would you get the X-ray considering it will not do anything to aid my healing?

Not asking for medical advice. I'm interested to know if people that work in radiology would have this x-ray done to themselves

Many thanks

Have joint pain and back pain 😞

Patient Context: middle age female, active, diagnosed hEDS.

Reason for Imaging: Obvious swelling is obvious, so I'll point out that the inciting incident was around 4-5 hours before x-ray. I'm leaving out anything else for the moment because I have a suspicion that the context skews the bias in reading and I'm curious if it makes a difference.

I'll come back and add context in an edit in a few hours.

Motion xrays taken to check for c1 c2 instability

My lad rides Mtb at a high level and has broken his finger playing football. He can’t ride until it’s healed obviously but we are struggling to get even a tough time frame for healing. He’s had to have it pulled into alignment twice in 7 days and splinted.

Like in general, what parts of the bone does an X-ray show? Is it like a cross section or ??? Is there a good resource for general x Ray info?

What layers are shown on this X-ray of a finger? Is the veiny part marrow? I find it super interesting.