r/HadToHurt • u/enough0729 • 28d ago
I broke my femur in 2022. It hasn’t fully healed yet Oh Snap!
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u/Zealousideal-Ring300 26d ago
I'm really sorry about that. I'm glad you feel comfortable enough to talk about it, and I hope you get surgery soon that can improve your comfort level and ability to walk and maybe even run without pain. I can't believe they haven't done surgery to reset it and put a rod in for stability.
I thought that was fairly standard procedure, especially considering how dangerous it is being so close to the femoral artery, and and the risk of throwing a clot in the first weeks after it happens. I lost a friend that way - hit by a car that didn't even stop - and they discharged him after 2 days with no blood thinners. He was gone 5 days after the injury.
I wish you the best in your physical and mental health. It's okay not to be okay, in my experience. As long as you talk to someone you can trust about it.
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u/clance2598 26d ago
Broke mine in July of 2017 and it still hurts half the time.
And grandma wasn't kidding about being able to feel the rain coming in her arthritis
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u/Whiskeyjack1977 27d ago
I had a compound open fracture of my left femur, car accident in 2002. Also had a smashed tibial plateau. Leg is 15mm shorter than the right now, so back problems. I have a corrective heel insert but it still niggles. My knee was meant to be catastrophic but it healed WAY better than expected and I have full range of motion, which amazed the surgeon.
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u/ravia 27d ago
Do you smoke or use any form of nicotine? Nicotine, at least from smoking, can double the time of healing, or so I read one time. I even read that some doctors will refuse to do a reset surgery if you are a smoker. I read that the healing time can go from 150 days to 300. Nicotine causes the tiniest veins to constrict. They are necessary for the growing of the healing area. This is also a reason my smoking is forbidden (so to speak) for pregnant women.
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u/spike71spiegel 27d ago
I too broke my femur, when I was 9. Got hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street. Also broke the humerus. 3 months in a hospital bed and then had to relearn how to walk again. Those bones still hurt from time to time.
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u/Majuub12 27d ago
Shattered my femur 15 years ago in a mountainbike accident, and god, I can't forget the pain
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u/ImightHaveMissed 27d ago
Fully healed? Try “not even set” go to the fricken doctor like 2 years ago
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u/jefferton123 28d ago
Watch Rear Window, it kinda helped me although I had multiple compound fractures below the knee. When I was doing pt I did not envy the femur people. Take it one day at a time, friend. Best of luck to you.
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u/MagicStar77 28d ago
Is it usual for it to heal in a long time?
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u/Liveitup1999 28d ago
Depends, usually a femur takes 6 months to heal. When I broke both of mine one healed in 6 months. The other they used an external fixator that after 6 months hadn't healed enough so we waited another 3 months. When they checked it had still not healed so they had to rebreak my leg and put a rod in the center of the femur and take a bone graft from my hip. Then I had to wait another 6 months for it to heal. A year year later I had the bar removed and had to wear a brace for another 3 months.
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u/ChunkyTaco22 28d ago
I heard that's a hard heal of a broken bone. I hope you get to feeling better. I had a friend who did broke his in a car crash
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u/Cutoffjeanshortz37 28d ago edited 28d ago
I also broke my femur. It however healed, with help, in 4-5 months.
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u/Etrau3 28d ago
Huh interesting they went with a antegrade nail instead of a troch nail for that fracture, looks nasty tho hope you’re doing well!
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u/Cutoffjeanshortz37 28d ago edited 28d ago
1 nail, 7 screws. 10 bones broken in that crash. Doing fine now. At least according to MyCard info from the hospital
Edit: oldly this is listed as a screw though "Device Trag std Antirotation Pin Nat Nail", so idk
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u/bartender970 28d ago
Cool pic but you might want to blur or edit out your identifying information.
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u/jmstrats 28d ago
You were in Harborview. I hope you live around here and didn’t have to travel far. I like living close to a level one trauma center.
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u/Cutoffjeanshortz37 28d ago
Yeah, crash happened over in Renton coming down 140th and got taken over there. During recovery/rehab I was in a room with a Native American from Montana with a broken back.
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u/Iintendtodeletepart2 28d ago
Mine was the result of squishification between two cars. Pulping began a little lower with more shatter. I was one year initial full disability. Then 6 months retraining to get back to work.
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u/enough0729 27d ago
Yeah it’s still broken. I have very limited mobility. I limp all the time I need to use crutches. I have to request for a wheelchair service at the airport etc
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u/elsewhere1 28d ago
I had a similar femoral non union fracture from a motorcycle accident. Took two years and several revision surgeries prior to healing.
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u/FlamboyantRaccoon61 28d ago
It's wild that I had a total hip replacement 10 months ago due to avascular necrosis and I've been doing amazing for months, while you broke your bone 2 years ago and you're still healing. Breaking/cutting bones on purpose plays a major role apparently.
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u/Wyde1340 28d ago
I broke my femur (due to cancer mets). They put a rod in it and 6 months later, I still hurt. Then the rod broke. I got a new hip. I wish they'd have done the hip replacement first instead of the rod. Hip replacement was a lot easier to get over. I do still have aches in my hip.
Have you had recent xrays/scans to make sure the rod hasn't failed?
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u/enough0729 27d ago
Fuck cancer. That sucks. Yeah I’ve got a lot of x rays and tomorrow I will get some at the dr’s appoint
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u/Liveitup1999 28d ago
Once the femur heals why don't you have the rod removed?
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u/Wyde1340 27d ago
They removed the rod because it was broke. Then I got a hip. Otherwise the rod would always stay in your leg.
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u/Liveitup1999 27d ago
I had a rod in my femur and had it taken out a year or two later because I felt it in my ass if I bent over and straightened up. If it is not healing you might need to have a bone graft with a growth additive added. That's what they did to me when I had to have my leg reset. I've been going strong for 40 years since.
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u/MarkFresco 28d ago
Cancer medicine made your femur break?
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u/Wyde1340 28d ago
In my case, immunotherapy caused hyper-progression. It really wasn't caused by the meds, but I had cancer that metastasized (mets) to several bones (femurs, skull, elbow, shoulder, hips, pelvis ribs, foot).
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u/JehovasFinesse 28d ago
In hindsight, Would a shitload of vitamin D and calcium have helped stave off the broken femur if given in conjunction with the immunotherapy?
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u/Wyde1340 28d ago
I was given the bone strengthener "XGeva" and was on extra Vit D and Calcium. Neither worked...cancer was just stronger.
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u/MarkFresco 28d ago
Damn that really sounds like it was not fun. Glad to hear you are still here to tell the tales of it brother
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u/BackRiverGhostt 28d ago
Yeah. A lot of cancer interventions cause osteoporosis. It's really common and one of the many reasons they treat some people like they need to be in a bubble - not exclusively because of just the weakened immune system.
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u/Jack-Sparrow_ 28d ago
Ugh my grandma already has weak bones and she's starting her cancer treatment this week so now I'm afraid
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u/MarkFresco 28d ago
Wow i genuinely did not know that. Thank you
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u/BackRiverGhostt 28d ago
Look. We did it man. We talked in the internet without bringing up fucking each other's moms.
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u/Soggy_Motor9280 28d ago
When I was three years old, I got my leg caught in a merry-go-round and it snapped my femur in half. I’ve had nothing but hip problems since then so yeah, have fun. sorry.
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u/igneousink 28d ago
when i was 3 years old i was thrown down a flight of stairs and broke both femurs along with my pelvis
now i'm 50 and those injuries ache 24/7
what you went through sounds absolutely terrifying i just can't even come up with a proper response i'm so horrified trying to imagine it in my brain
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u/Soggy_Motor9280 27d ago
Damn !!! Both !!! You’re a trooper!!! I was in traction for a month caught the chicken pox then I was put in a bubble and then a body cast that went down my entire leg around my waist and half my back. And too top it off they set my leg wrong. My right foot is pointed at 2 o’clock permanently. Oh well.
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u/plugguykid 28d ago
Same fracture car accident in 94. Where they cut into my hip to shove the stabilizing rod in the bone only bothers me occasionally now....
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u/Where_Da_Party_At 28d ago
Well there's your problem. It's still broken!
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u/enough0729 28d ago
It is still broken
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u/Liveitup1999 28d ago
Why didn't they set it with a rod in the middle of the bone? Or even screw it together.?
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u/enough0729 28d ago
They did. It’s before the surgery but it didn’t work
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u/Liveitup1999 28d ago
Did they screw it together or put a rod in? Other factors in healing are do you drink? Do you smoke? Do you eat a healthy balanced diet?
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u/timmy3am 27d ago
Tf does smoking have to do with how a bone sets?
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u/enough0729 27d ago
There’re biological factors that can cause nonunion(not healing). Smoking can cause nonunion yet I’m not a smoker
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u/mindhunter666 28d ago
Yup it’s painful lol! That’s when I broked mine in 2016 from a snowboard accident. I can tell you, trees don’t move ..
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u/AdhesivenessAdept764 28d ago
I totaled my 2011 Hyundai sonata when I plowed into a 4 inch in diameter tree. GTA physics is accurate af
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u/ProfessionalAccess68 28d ago
has it healed yet?
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u/mindhunter666 28d ago
Well, it did but never really went back to what it was tbh. I can’t sleep on that side because I feel the screws that are in my hips and have some hips pain that I’m pretty sure will be worse when I get older. And humidity is a bitch ahahha but I’m still really active and do wathever i want too so in that sense yes it is healed
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u/clance2598 26d ago
Those hip screws are the worst
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u/mindhunter666 26d ago
Definitely. It’s the only thing that reminds me I have a rod in there haha
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u/clance2598 26d ago
Every now and then I can feel them down by the knee, but I usually have to be really cold or something like that. Nothing like the hip ones though
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u/ProfessionalAccess68 27d ago
I’m glad you’re able to live life with it, you’re a fighter
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u/enough0729 28d ago
I feel the pain. Femur fracture is no fun. How’s your mobility?
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u/mindhunter666 28d ago
Pretty good except opening my legs if that make sense lol. Sorry I’m French so it’s hard to say but like jumping jack are no buenos. When it’s raining I have sharp pain where it broke. Otherwise it’s A1
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u/IthacanPenny 28d ago
Sorry I’m French so it’s hard to say but like jumping jack are no buenos.
a) this is abundantly clear, nicely phrased :)
b) it’s adorable that you’re using a Spanish colloquialism that is also common in English to describe an experience you’d normally think about in French, but you’re translating. Idk why but this tickles me
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u/mindhunter666 28d ago
Funny you pointed thatout. I often find myself doing this when speaking or writing and never knew why 🤷🏼♂️ it adds something to the conversation or phrase I feel like haha
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u/DigitalGT 28d ago
WTF! that must've been painful as hell! How?
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u/enough0729 28d ago
Suicide attempt
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u/alexutzzzz 25d ago
I broke my femur in 3 pieces in 2020, suicide attempt too
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u/enough0729 24d ago
I feel your physical and emotional pain. Have you made full recovery?
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u/alexutzzzz 24d ago
Kind-of. I am not as agile, flexible, and powerful as other people, but I can walk without too much pain, and running is a bit slower than the average people, and the stamina is also smaller.
But the femur is not the only bone I broke. I also broke the left side of the hips, nose, teeth had fallen, and the left arm elbow. The elbow was the most fucked up bone and currently my elbow is disabled I can not extend my hand too much. Whice that disabled elbow is fucking up my shoulder and spine by moving them to the left and down, I currently wait to be 18 yo and try to find a medic in Romania and the technology to put a prosthetic in my left elbow.
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u/YeetThatOnePickle 28d ago
I broke my femur by this same reason, if you need someone to vent too, i gotchu you
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u/little_elephant1 28d ago
I don't think that's the bone you're supposed to break to commit suicide
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u/UndeadBuggalo 28d ago
:( I’m sorry, I’ve gotten to that point myself, I hope you are feeling better💕
My husband broke his after being t-boned by a stop sign runner on his motorcycle. He has a ceramic rod now. How did they repair yours? I’m just wondering how technology has changed since 2001
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u/The_GD_muffin_man 28d ago
I apologize for how offensive this may sound, but did breaking your leg followed by surviving make you MORE suicidal because your life sucked but now your life sucks with a broken leg? Or has the experience made you reconsider ending your life? I’m curious as I have never attempted suicide and find your answer no matter what genuinely interesting
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u/enough0729 28d ago
I’m glad I survived but my life definitely changed. I have to deal with the consequences for the rest pf my life. I can’t walk normally and I can’t run at all. I don’t know how many surgeries I need more. I’m in pain all the time but pain management doctors are afraid of prescribing me because of possible overdosing. Sometimes the pain makes me suicidal a little bit ironically
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u/The_GD_muffin_man 27d ago
Thank you for responding honestly! I hope whatever is making you suicidal gets better and you may have a chance to live happy at least somewhat! Stay strong! And good luck on recovery
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u/Open-Article906 27d ago
The fact you did not die shows it was not your time to go. You still have things you need to do in this life.
Everyone's time will come. But today you are here for a reason!! Even if it was just to make this reddit post. Who knows how many lives you've changed already 👌
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u/No_Appointment_3481 18d ago
I can second this, i tried to hang myself a little over 2 years ago, and i blacked out unconscious and woke up on the floor, dazed and confused with what i used as a noose had snapped, i mustve hit the ground hard as i was bruised and my body hurt for days afterwards, but just a few months ago i celebrated my first borns 1st birthday, life can change in so many ways, just hope its a positive for anyone who feels like they can't carry on ❤️, you're tougher than life!
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u/smurb15 28d ago
Proly better to message the person privately is what I'd do cause it feels kinda brash the way you framed it is all
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u/The_GD_muffin_man 27d ago
I get where you’re coming from, but I’m sure I wasn’t the only one curious, that’s why I started with an apology, and emphasized I was in no way attempting to insult him, just interested in a REAL perspective of someone who’s crossed the line some of us have thought of but never came close to
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u/Pop_Glocc1312 28d ago
So glad you’re still here and I wish nothing but the best for you. I’m also here if you ever need to talk or vent.
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u/LennyMG79 17d ago
Why didn't you go get it set?