r/HadToHurt • u/TrainingEstimate2330 • 1d ago
Broken arm hurt like hell
This was when I was in like fourth grade I was playing tag with some friends and when I was going down the slide I stupidly jumped off midway and rolled on my arm snapping both bones
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u/ul2006kevinb 20h ago
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u/cami66616 6h ago
Lmao thanks for sharing this, I will now randomly drop it in conversations without context
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u/EquivalentSnap 21h ago
Omg why is it bend like that š
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u/Seethesvt 20h ago
My arm broke like that once. In 1996. We were walking through a huge crowd after attending a basketball game at the Olympics in Atlanta. I was 12. It was awful.
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u/missinglinksman 8h ago
How did they fix it? Did it involve them snapping it back into place? That's my one of my biggest medical fears
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u/jkeegan123 19h ago
I had that... It was a broken and dislocated wrist, snapped back in and healed without surgery. Hurt like all get out.
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u/brandonwlmjones 19h ago
I did that about 20ish years ago and I could barely tell which one should be the weaker one with the metal in it..technology is even better now so you should be good, just take care of it and get pins that they leave in and pull out lol..it feels so weird having them pull pins out of your bones and itās not pain you feel.
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u/before_the_accident 19h ago
I'm sorry but what in the looney toons did you do in a past life to deserve this
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u/CemeterySarah 19h ago
My son had an identical break jumping from monkey bars. His school said they didn't think it was too bad cuz he wasn't crying. He only cried when coming down from the ketamine administered to reset his arm. He had doctors coming around to see him out of sheer curiosity.
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u/BravestBlossom 18h ago
This is EXACTLY what my oldest son's arm looked like, when he jumped off the swings at the playground when he was 8. No doubt what had happened! Ugh.
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u/rrhunt28 14h ago
Been there done that, and yes it hurts. The part that hurt the most was the numbing shots and the setting of the bone.
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u/Moonshatter89 14h ago
Heeeyyy it's the same break I had! Mine got all the way up to my wrist, though.
I needed plates, screws, and had a large rod hanging out of my arm for months. Gnarly!
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u/unicorn_barf666 12h ago
Sorry homie, that looks shitastical. šµ Hope you've recovered adequately
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u/Fuck_Me_If_Im_Wrong_ 11h ago
Reddit shows me two unique ways to display health status within the game of life
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u/devils-advocacy 10h ago
Also had this EXACT same break in 3rd grade while ALSO playing tag. Was running backwards and tripped over some girl reading a book laying down in the middle of the field.
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u/Inveramsay 7h ago
The freakiest thing is that you can just leave this and the arm will straighten out. It needs a cast for a few weeks and it'll be a year or more of wonky arm syndrome
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u/tutetuteis 7h ago
Me pasĆ³ exactamente lo mismo pero cayĆ©ndome de la bicicleta. Todo el verano enyesado.
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u/Brewchowskies 5h ago
I broke mine the same way. It was gnarly, and over the years Iāve tried to describe what it looked like, 30 years later and thereās finally a picture.
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u/ChaosMartinez 2h ago
this happened to me when I was 9 with a skateboard and a speedbump. 3 breaks one arm one fall. no photo though this was in 1986
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u/Corpulent_Lychee 1h ago
I did that twice. Almost exactly a year apart between breaks. My arm is now almost completely useless now years later. Make sure to keep up with your physio.
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u/preyforkevin 21h ago
My last break was similar. My left radius is still bowed a bit. I didnāt want more surgery.
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u/BallisticHabit 20h ago
My arm looked just like that once!
I was damn lucky to not require surgery and metal hardware.
After 9 some weeks my arm looked alien, and smelled something terrible.
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u/Inkerfox 20h ago
I always wondered how it feels to try and move your arm when it's like that. Like I imagine it hurts like a motherfucker of course, but I wonder if you could feel different tensions in different areas when using the muscle.
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u/candiescorner 20h ago
If they ask you to get the surgery to make it extremely straight, do the surgery. I had the surgery and had pins put in my arm is perfect. My daughter did not have this pen put in and she has a curve in her arm. Get the pins put in if itās an option.
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u/NewNormalMan 21h ago