First broken bone. Ever!

First broken bone. Ever!

Poll: First broken bone. Ever!

Total Members Polled: 123

No: 59%
Yes: 41%
Author
Discussion

GTIR

Original Poster:

24,741 posts

265 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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So, here I am pumped full of pain killers, after an off on my motorbike (Ok fine, it was a 125 scooter!), and I've broken my collarbone, or fractured clavicle as it's known, and I feel like an absolute cocksocket. frown

It's broken and not lined back up (but not punctured the skin) so I understand that surgery is the only option. (I have seen the xray and it looks very, erm, broken). smile

Anyway. I am 44yo and until today have never broken a bone in my body (apart from the cartilage in my nose). I once damaged my kneebone after falling off my Raleigh Chopper after the front brake locked on (I was about 12yo, so 1982, and the women who stopped to help asked me if I was ok and then offered me a cup of tea) but that's about it. hehe

Are you indestructible, Have you never broken a bone?

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I haven't yet, despite riding a motorbike, playing ice hockey and generally being a bit of a div.

ducgas

112 posts

139 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Ha, the old clavicle! Yep got a plate holding mine together after motorbike accident 4 years ago. Looks ugly but does the trick. Get well soon.

P I Staker

3,308 posts

155 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I'm 20 and never broken a bone. party

DuraAce

4,240 posts

159 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Both arms. Both legs and fractured skull. Nothing else!

Quhet

2,409 posts

145 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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By the time I was 13 I'd broken both collar bones, both wrists, my elbow and had broken my humerus.
Most were from falling off my bike.

Nothing since smile

GTIR

Original Poster:

24,741 posts

265 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Rawwr said:
I haven't yet, despite riding a motorbike, playing ice hockey and generally being a bit of a div.
Ok, Honda "thou" is proper bo'!

(I hate that ^ saying as much as I hate "gixxer")

mu0n

2,348 posts

132 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I was fairly fortunate until about 22. I broke my orbital bone in 3 places and I've also broken my hand before.

I've got a funny feeling my hand maybe fractured at the moment but nowhere near as bad as before. I didn't know I broke it before when a week later I was in agony at 2 in the morning, couldn't sleep so took 120mg of codeine without really know what it was. Best night sleep ever!!!

didelydoo

5,528 posts

209 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I've broken:

3 bones in right foot
Pelvis
3 ribs
right collar bone
2 vertebrae (T5 & T6)
Left shoulder blade

Also bruised a lung and ruptured a kidney whilst doing some of the above (I'm 33) Been a while since anything major though!


Challo

10,043 posts

154 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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33 and had a few already.

Broken collarbone
Fractured elbow
Fractured wrist x2
Dislocated shoulder
Broken coracoid
Damaged knee cartilage

Issues of playing football and rugby as a kid.

Torquey

1,888 posts

227 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Broke my first bone at 30. 2 Metatarsals playing football.

Looking back I have fond memories of it!

4 weeks off work playing Xbox for 9 hours a day.
Being chauffeured around, meals made and general sympathy!
The whole recovery was like learning to walk again but making huge progress each day.
I don't think I'd be greatly disappointed if it happened again one day.

Kiltie

7,504 posts

245 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I'm 50 ...

Right elbow ...



Left leg ...



Right heel ...



Right heel and left leg ...






Oldandslow

2,405 posts

205 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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44 and still unbroken.

I played rugby and other sports. Always wondered if I'd just been lucky so far. Did a health check at work and their fancy scales said I had an unusually high bone mass so maybe I'm just a bit robustly built. On the other hand I got a duff pancreas.

Quattromaster

2,904 posts

203 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Collarbone x 2
Ribs x 8
Leg ( once in 4 places)
Ankle
Arm
C3,
T5,6,7,8,9,10

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Broken loads. Clavicle (through the skin) was the first age 11. Loads of fingers and toes (cricket!) but ribs are the worst - they hurt when you breathe, but cough or sneeze...

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Slight tangent, but for those who have broken things - do you find those bits ache in cold weather?

iacabu

1,348 posts

148 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Awkward way to ask...I've not never broken a bone.

My thumb is sometimes painful through the winter although has been ok this year. Chipped a bit of bone off at a joint.

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I'm scared of saying no, incase I jinx things and end up breaking something tomorrow!

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Only broken a thumb when I was 14, but I did nearly self-amputate my left leg with a chainsaw, doctors were so impressed they got a medical illustrator in to record the surgery!

davepoth

29,395 posts

198 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Podie said:
Slight tangent, but for those who have broken things - do you find those bits ache in cold weather?
Yes, but mainly due to the differential expansion of the bits of steel.

For the OP, I had a fractured clavicle a few years back. Although mine was a simple break I'd screwed up so many other limbs in the car crash I had (it was pretty epic) that they fixed it with a plate to get at least one arm mobile reasonably quickly.

I had that removed as soon as I could as it was really annoying - it sat on the top of the bone which meant I couldn't comfortably carry anything on my shoulder, and when I lifted heavy things with my arm the feeling of it not bending in quite the same was as the bone was quite disoncerting. Also the screws could be felt under the skin.

However, it healed the clavicle very cleanly - much better than it would have been if it was left. I think I'd do it that way again if I was unlucky enough to need it.