By DeeZeeMb - 20/12/2015 12:40 - Slovenia - Maribor

Today, it's been three months since i went to my GP for a swollen foot. She sent me to a rheumatologist, a pulmonologist, vein ultrasound, DNA testing and finally an X-ray, which revealed I've been walking around on a broken foot. By now, the two bones are grown together at weird angles, forever. FML
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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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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.

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Honestly, OP has no case against the doctor, at all. If all you told them you had was swelling, and it was that localized, and there was no trauma to your foot (or at least not that you told them about), then the logical assumption is not that you broke anything.

dude it may suck but there are procedures that you can do to have it broken and reset in the correct position

Aya_rose 5

This sounds painful, and it would be, but you can have them rebreak it to get it to heal properly.

Nor forever.. they can re-break your leg and align the bones

Something like this happened to my aunt but it wasn't a doctor's fault. She was in a car accident maybe 50 years ago, maybe more and apparently she broke a bone in her shoulder and it didn't heal correctly. Lucky for her it never caused her any problems other then her bra strap never staying on. She's 92 now and she only found out about in the last 10 years and since it's never caused her serious problems they told her fixing it would be a waste of time.

I'm sorry you had to go through this. You know, it took 15 years for me to get a diagnosis. Dislocating hips daily from age 14. Dislocating my clavicles all the time. Gastroparesis. Cranocervical instability. Many more. Insisting something was wrong causing it all. Went through hell for a year with

The Cranocervical instability and several dislocated discs in my thoracic and cervical spine just trying to get xrays or anything and couldn't get them, because they kept insisting I couldn't of hurt myself that bad and it could only be muscle invovlment. So hearing someone having the opposite issue

Where the doctor skips the obvious and goes straight to the rheumatologist just ticks me off.

X rays are the first step there... Fire your GP

This is what malpractice insurance is for. Sue the Dr, the hospital, and anyone else involved.

I went to a doctor with a sore wrist and the first thing they did was send me for an xray...