By DeeZeeMb - 20/12/2015 12:40 - Slovenia - Maribor
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I wanted to comment on this early, because the FML 300 character limit doesn't really allow for a proper explanation... One day i suddenly started limping, and there was sometimes a strange clicking sensation in my foot as i was walking, but there was absolutelly no pain. A little later my foot was swollen, but still no pain, and i went to my doctor. She gave me Ibuprofen and sent me home. Obviously it didn't help with the swelling, so i went back. She gave me a stronger anti swelling medication, and sent me to the rheumatologist, since we couldn't figure out what was wrong. The rheumatologist gave me the strongest anti swelling medication they had, and sent me to the pulmonologist, vein ultrasound, urine tests, genetic blood testing and finally the x-ray which revealed two broken bones. The clicking sensation i felt during the first days was the two bones snapping back and forth while walking. I was in complete shock when i found out i had two broken bones in my foot, and even more so, when i realized they were grown back together allready, but far from perfectly. I immediatelly went to a traumatologist, but they said there was nothing they could do, that i would have had to come to them in the first two weeks. This actually all happened a year ago, and my foot is now slightly better, but still far from perfect. It is slightly deformed due to the bone callus that forms around the broken bones - it's pushing the healthy bones appart, making my foot wider than it should be. But this will go away, and i have high hopes that at least externally my foot will appear normal. As for walking, i barelly limp anymore, so i have high hopes for that as well. But fact is, my foot will never be the same again...
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Ouuch. Why didn't they start with the X-ray?
I'm actually really jealous you got in so quick. I've been laid up in bed and in severe pain for several months. My appointment to see a Rheumatologist is in April, which is the soonest they can see me.
There are ways to fix this. They can break that section again so it can heal properly. Suggest to your doc that they cover the costs for it or you will sue.
Did you tell your doctor there was no trauma involved? That would throw most physicians onto the peripheral edema track
Why on earth did they test your DNA?
Probably for possibility of an autoimmune disease, that could cause the swelling. The part i'm not sure about is why they sent me to the pulmonologist. They gave me a chest x-ray and i had to breathe in a weird machine...
Maybe they thought the swelling in your foot was due to fluids building up there and not being able to leave. If that's the case, some of those fluids could leak into your lungs while you're asleep, which could cause some serious problems. They were probably trying to make sure there weren't any fluids in your lungs.
Playing devil's advocate here, considering that pain, bruising, and a recent traumatic injury as signs of a broken bone and they all seem to have been missing- unless I misread OP's supplemental comments above- and that X-Rays are harmful with reckless exposure, she may have wanted to limit OP's exposure. Depending on OP's insurance, she may have also been unable to justify an X-Ray due to the lack of symptoms, which happened to my cousin with a similar injury. In my cousin's case though, his injury encapsulated a nerve in bone by the time they did the X-Ray the way he told it- and he was in the bloody military at the time, yet they dragged their heels on the approval. I'm not saying either of those are necessarily the case. I'm pointing out the possibility because there are more than a few users onFML that seem to assume that any time a doctor make an incorrect call, that said doctor is doing so out of malice or greed and should be sued. Doctors are humans, people- they make mistakes like everyone else on the planet, theirs have a higher cost. Every doctor makes at LEAST one career oriented mistake in their life, usually more. Also, believe it or not, suing, threatening to sue, or threatening to press charges against someone isn't always the answer.
This is a good point. I kind of hope OP follows up directly to this comment, though, to say if that's the reason he got sent on a medical wild goose chase. I've had some really shitty insurance policies myself, but I think even the most bottom-of-the-barrel plans I've had would've sent me to get my foot looked at before anything else if that's what I'd come in to see the doctor about. But I also know how ****** up the insurance system can be.
anniemeece
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That's so weird. When my wrist and thumb started hurting for no known reason, the very first thing they did was send me to get an x-ray. Same for my shoulder (though that had a fall that caused the problem). In fact, they just keep sending me to get x-rays, even though nothing shows up on the x-rays and I'm still in pain. It's so weird to me that they waited so long to x-ray you!
Sathane
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You GP is an idiot and likely was just racking up a nice income on your "mystery" foot problem.
That's not usually how medicine works if you're dealing with insurance companies.
The XRAY should have been the first thing she did! Omg
Dallyni
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Luckily that was all! My mom broke her ankle and the doctor thought it was a sprain so she walked on it normally. To make a long story short she developed a blood clot and almost died.
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You may also want to consider a lawsuit.
Could it be rebroken and set? I don't know much about medicine, but I know that's a thing they can do in some situations.