[Closed] Oi! Stoner! This is how you do hand X-rays..

Ouch.heal quick.

Ouch! My testicles receded into my body when I saw that, like a lizard under a rock.

Get well soon!

🖕

Was the injury proceeded by a shout of “watch this!”?

I hope it mends fast and well.

🤒... 🤒... 🤮

Get better soon.

Was the injury proceeded by a shout of “hold my beer, watch this!”?

Beaten to it by Matt!

Heal fast

Thanks for the well-wishes 🙂

Sadly it was an innocuous injury that, for various reasons, got bad fast. Nothing heroic - although I really should come up with a better story than the boring one I have.

As of today I'm booked for the beginning of January for some bone-cutting and joint-replacement surgery. I'm lucky in that my surgeon really gives a damn, has ushered me up the waiting list and spent a lot of time talking to me today to answer my questions, which I'm really grateful for - however I'm still bricking it a bit. Haven't decided whether to be awake for the procedure.

Best bit...guess where the injection will be?

Armpit.

FFS!

Another candidate for the paralympic fingerbang team.

There are special Scottish swear words reserved for such occasions

Can I make the suggestion that you really don't want to be awake for the procedure.
Talk about vomit inducing.
Get better soon.

At least it's not your wan...drinking hand!

I've just googled the operation. I want to cry / throw up

The music is hilarious mind you

Best bit…guess where the injection will be?

Armpit.

Had that the other week (assuming they’re doing a nerve block?) it’s a properly weird feeling having to hold your arm to stop it flopping around, and weird that you can’t feel ANYTHING, despite the doctors and nurses throwing it around all over the place!

Edit, just seen the video, don’t worry. You’ll feel nothing, and won’t be allowed to look.

Get well soon.

As odd as it may sound, this isn't something I want people to know about so I'm not talking to any anyone I know about it - but I'm also  "arrgh, I'm a bit scared", so it's nice to at least to have some support and advice from you bunch of shits.

Thank you 🙂

Another candidate for the paralympic fingerbang team.

Mixed doubles

mere flesh wound youth......... ;o)

heal well.

I thought you were meant to work it out with a pencil not your finger.
I hope you washed it before seeing the docs

So what do you call that injury? Metacarpal joint dislocation or something? Looks awful.

Just recovering from a screwed scaphoid op last week. Will get a new x ray on Monday to see what the screw looks like. Seemingly the screw took hold well and tightened up nicely.

I have some meccano in my right hand from snapping two metacarpals a few years ago.

Anyway get them to morphine you up it’s lovely stuff.

Oh no, you you-tubed it. You'll know what they are doing now !! At least you are off washing up duties for Christmas.

I googled my shoulder decompression, but fortunately I was out. Was a bit bloody, but the nerve block is weird - one completely dead arm, then the feeling slowly comes back, fingers first.

An 'other' operation I did'd you-tube it, nothing serious but a bit grim. I only thought it would be keyhole, oh no, took a look under the 'dressing' and realised it wasn't keyhole. Was nearly sick.

Oh I had nerve blocks for the 3 tendon flush ops I had last year for a nasty infection.  Your arm goes totally dead but the downside for me was when it came round and for about 4 hours it felt like my hand was being crushed in a vice, not even codeine and Ora-morph seemed to touch it.

Mine was for releasing my cubital tunnel/nerve from being trapped in my elbow. Codeine and ibuprofen seemed to cover it afterwards.

Surgeon commented on how muscular my arms were. Referring to my forearm 😕

I assume you’re having it done at LGI? They were really good with me, pre op especially, not my first rodeo so wasn’t worried, but they made sure I was ok with everything at every stage (complication with frozen shoulder)

Surgeon commented on how muscular my arms were. Referring to my forearm

More embarrassing than that Flashy, reckon it’s the years of dragging brakes down hills!

Imagine the "stranger" you can have with a medically dead arm...

No more one finger planching for you!

Imagine the “stranger” you can have with a medically dead arm…

A *cough* friend told me that cos it’s numb (properly so) from the shoulder down, you’d have better luck with a pool noodle, held at the farthest point from the business end...

Perhaps Bear will have better luck? #prayforbear

At least youve still got all the bits attached, and Jamie hasnt got anything to work with!

That looks wonderfully dramatic though. Good luck on the op...

Wow - that looks proper messed up.
Good luck when the surgery comes around - I’d choose to be awake, as although you know it’s going on, you don’t get to see anything really. .. and it’s less risky... I chose to be awake for my heart op last year

Heal up fast and completely!

Paracetamol will be your friend, 1gm every 6 hours, keep a paper and pencil handy to record doses so you don't let the level drop. A much under-used, cheap and very safe painkiller.

Another broken bone here from the weekend, spiral of the fibula. Great time of year to be less mobile.

Good luck with the op. I worked with a guy who had his finger dislocated after getting it caught in a horse bridle thing. Had to have it amputated from the dislocated bit

A much under-used, cheap and very safe painkiller.

The majority of people on the liver transplant list are there because of paracetamol

get well soon bearnecessities (was going to add the thumbs up smilie but thought against it.

edit just looked at your x ray again and your thumb looks ok so 👍 😀

but seriously i hope your hand heals soon after operation.

Join the club - got 2 on same hand (1 with 2x screws)

The majority of people on the liver transplant list are there because of paracetamol

FactCheck: That's not true. Most liver transplants are performed for chronic disease (Chronic Hep C, Chronic Hep B,Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease (NASH),Alcoholic liver disease, in that order, Source: https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(18)30611-6/fulltext. The UK will differ slightly).

Now, if you had said "on the Super-Urgent" list, you'd have been correct. But super-urgent makes up a small proportion of liver transplants.

Also I have no evidence whatsoever to back this up, but I'd guess 90% + of people on that super-urgent list either intentionally overdosed or abused the drug another way.

The point is that Paracetamol is a very good painkiller and is very well tolerated.

Also I have no evidence whatsoever to back this up, but I’d guess 90% + of people on that super-urgent list either intentionally overdosed or abused the drug another way.

It's surprisingly easy to overdose on paracetamol. Many medications, like Lemsip, include 500 mg as an ingrdient. Adding these to a regular dose of a 1000 mg, some period pain medication as well, and you can be in trouble. Don't expect people to read the labels too closely.

Fun fact 2 - the antidote comes in a Jiffy bag! (If you are Team Sky). N-Acetyl-Cysteine is the antidote, but is also a decongestent. Assuming you aren't hypersensitive to it, as some are.

Hope the op goes well, and heal fast. Paracetamol provides excellent pain relief from fracture pain in my experience. It provides hives and hypersensitivity for Mrs TiRed.

Look on the bright side bear at least this guy isn’t performing the op.

Cheers for the 'mixed' reviews 🙂 - and clarifying that I won't see anything. Still digesting it today, whilst trapped in the hell that was Victoria Car Park Leeds for the best part of the day.

To answer a bit from above, it started as a volar-plate avulsion fracture but ended up as 'kin-'ell!-finger-syndrome. Imagine a pork sausage, bent downwards and to the side bit with a cheeky-twist; that's how my finger looks - so with the operation sorting it, to a large degree,I should be ecstatic really!

This is the innocuous image that started it all (sorry it's not as gross) - you can see a  small chip at the base of the middle-knuckly-thing (PIP joint). God knows what the medical term actually is for what it is now. ****ed, probably.

I think I'm a bit of a freak-show for both students and experienced consultants down at the LGI as  it's not causing me one bit of pain.

My dashingly-handsome and charming surgeon (I should really hate him) appears to be a good-'un though, and generally interested in the best outcome for me so I'm grateful for that.

Anyhow, thanks again for all the messages - I'm not normally one to listen to other people's opinions (because they don't know everything about your circumstances yada yada) but this actually has been genuinely very helpful, and funny...and thank you for the well-wishes too.

Merry Christmas, and to you Jamie if you're lurking!  Photoshop my finger better, would you?

Wow, that is super cool! ermmm, or heal quickly, hope it doesn't hurt too much...pick whichever feels most appropriate

🙂

Imagine a pork sausage, bent downwards and to the side bit with a cheeky-twist; that’s how my finger looks

Oh, your finger. Thank christ for that.

Wow that's a pretty spectacular change from the initial X-ray which isn't half as impressive (although when it involves the joint like that it's often worse than it first looks). Good luck with the recovery - keep us posted.

All the best with the recovery, I didn't do well on morphine. After 7 sick bowls including throwing up the anti sickness medication the nursing staff took pity on me and gave me an infusion. Literally nothing stayed down and after 24 hours of nothing to drink I was as dry as the sahara.

I would make a rubbish drug addict !

Yeah hope it gets all sorted in January and you recover quickly.

As for morphine it worked brilliantly for me last week. I prefer to just wake up and it’s done. I then have a nice chilled out feeling for ages. Thankfully my normal highs are from exercising not the misuse of narcotics 😎

The operation is on Monday, and I'm being a total wuss about the concept of being awake whilst it's being cut up and a 'saw' cuts through the bones. Surgeon said I could be knocked-out proper, but I got the impression that wasn't his preferred choice.

If I have the "you're awake" option, will I be dosed up so I don't really care what's happening or will I still be liable to freak-out when I smell bits of bone being grinded off?

You’ll not be able to feel a thing, which will be the weirdest thing, they’ll put a cover up and there’s no way you’ll see.

Your arm is so numb that anything you hear or smell, you will assume it’s related to something else. They cauterised my ‘wound’, the only reason I know that is because the surgeon explained that’s what she was doing.

I was all for general anaesthetic, not my first rodeo etc, but this really wasn’t that bad at all.

I had two generals for my wrist surgery. Was never offered a block. It was rivals with power tools. Not sure I would have wanted to watch the plate and screws, but I’d like to have seen the toys. I did get to talk anaesthetics though with someone who knew what my day job involves. Then I fell a asleep.

Hope it goes well.

Thanks, my resident LGI expert 🙂 So is the injection also a bit of a 'drug', like morphine, or will I be fully compos-mentis? That's the bit that worries me.

I'd love to stick some earphones in; just something so I'm not aware of what's happening for an hour or more

Edit: Thanks, TiRed.

You usually will be sedated and you can certainly ask to be sedated.

Fully compus mentis. It’s injecting the drug solely into your nerve so it blocks the signal from below to your brain (hence the armpit entry point). They have music on in the theatre, so it’s not like all you have to hear is the procedure. I was rather focused on the pain from a, separate, frozen shoulder (above the nerve block, sadly!) but you could quite happily hold a conversation with anyone in the room, the docs in my room were having a jolly good matter...

Genuinely, you’ll wonder what you were worried about. When they dropped the curtain, I was surprised by where my arm was on the table, and that it was bent at the elbow, I would have sworn it was straight. Apparently the mind thinks the body is still in the position it was when anaesthetised...

Cool, thanks.

I really wish I'd been able to chat more with surgeon beforehand, as he told me to, but his secretary has been on leave so my answerphone message for a quick natter has gone unnoticed.

Hey ho, best pop some of these; especially as much worse happens to people every day.

Swigging a few malts beforehand would probably be frowned upon?

I did get to talk anaesthetics though with someone who knew what my day job involves

Had a good chat with mine at my last hernia op - he said he'd talk me through all the induction drugs he was giving me so I could feel what each one was like

Nothing, absolutely nothing has stuck in my memory though he promised me afterwards that he'd told me - mighty good shit, that stuff !

but you could quite happily hold a conversation with anyone in the room,

I had an operation on my forehead under local. Eyes covered. Quite a surreal being present but in the dark while they were working. The surgeon and nurse both had the kind of German accent that people use when they are pretending to be mad scientists. Quite difficult to follow conversation when you have the faint sensation of your head being rummaged in (the thing they were doing was tiny - only left a half inch scar - but the numbness made it feel like their movements were huge). Occasionally there would be a pause and I'd realise that the conversation was being directed to me.

"Do you live locally?"

"......."

"Hello - I'm taking to you"

"Pardon?"

"Do you live locally?"

"Err - Yes - it was only a 100 yard walk to get here which is handy I suppose"

"Ahhh - I thought you looked familiar...... I recognise your nose I think"

For Bear - I think if the docs thought you needed a sedative they'd offer it - they'd have a good idea as to whether patients find the experience distressing - but not being able to see to feel whats going on means you're pretty detached from the whole experience.

A good friend of mine insisted (much to the surgeon's discomfort) - on having her hip replacement done without sedation. She just didn't think she should sleep through something that interesting happening to her body.

Had a good chat with mine at my last hernia op – he said he’d talk me through all the induction drugs he was giving me so I could feel what each one was like

At the commencement of of my Hernia op the anaesthetist said "I'm just going to give you a nice gin and tonic"

Swigging a few malts beforehand would probably be frowned upon?

The reason they have all those alcohol gel hand sanitisers dotted around hospitals is the mask the smell of booze on the surgeon's breath.

The reason they have all those alcohol gel hand sanitisers dotted around hospitals is the mask the smell of booze on the surgeon’s breath.

That's the kind of reassurance I was looking for!

I feel like such a dick as my Dad has gone through some fairly traumatic Glaucoma operations recently, fully awake, without the slightest complaint.

But be assured, I'll post any hilarious X-rays or stories of misery for your amusement.

Thanks, all 🙂

Oh I’ve been fully conscious for eye surgery too 😊 I could smell the laser burning my retina.

The arm stuff was a piece of piss...

Collectively this forum is quite a burden  on the nhs isn’t it 🙂

Lol

The feeling of your finger being pulled apart (literally, stretched out), the sensation of the saw cutting your bones and the following 'reaming' of the bones to fit the new joint into was all pretty gross.

But: The sedative that they gave me was hilarious.  A few seconds after being administered: "Just tell me your name and date of birth"...."Rirrcha.....oooh. That's working"

Everyone, and I'm a bit jaded with my experience of NHS to date, was brilliant. The anaesthetist (Oliver?) and his accomplice were hilarious and put me at ease - and during the surgery even kept popping into make sure I was ok/talk to me.

And according to the surgeon: "It went better than I expected" - and holding up my white floppy arm, the swelling has gone down dramatically and I'm just left with a load of excess flabby flesh which will hopefully go down. Weirdly, I couldn't see any stitches along the scar.

He also made an inferred penis joke about my dressed finger. Top man.

Two weeks, dressing off and we'll see what the outcome is*...thanks for all the advice/piss-taking 🙂

*fingers crossed, etc

Two weeks, dressing off and we’ll see what the outcome is*

If there's a sweepstake I'm going with "There is no finger, its all dressing"

Ha!

I have a back-up career planned.

Just happened across this....

Feeling better?