r/HadToHurt • u/TrainingEstimate2330 • 3d 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 2d ago
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u/cami66616 1d ago
Lmao thanks for sharing this, I will now randomly drop it in conversations without context
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u/Seethesvt 2d 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 1d 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/housevil 2d ago
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u/jkeegan123 2d 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 2d 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 it’s not pain you feel.
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u/before_the_accident 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/Fuck_Me_If_Im_Wrong_ 1d ago
Reddit shows me two unique ways to display health status within the game of life
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u/devils-advocacy 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago
Me pasó exactamente lo mismo pero cayéndome de la bicicleta. Todo el verano enyesado.
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u/Brewchowskies 1d ago
I broke mine the same way. It was gnarly, and over the years I’ve tried to describe what it looked like, 30 years later and there’s finally a picture.
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u/ChaosMartinez 1d 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 1d 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/TheOx111 1d ago
Sorry buddy. Done it 5 times 3 times right side 2 times left side. It’s hell everytime. When the cast starts itching use large zip ties. You can get them in there without fucking anything up haha
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u/underwhere666 1d ago
My friend did this in cheerleading during practice. Hers was closer to her elbow so it looked like she had two elbows. Doctors told her the only thing that prevented a compound fracture was her bones hit each other. Effectively preventing each other from puncturing skin.
She was doing round off back handsprings. And kept throwing her weight off to the one side. My coach kept telling her she needed to stop doing that. All damn day. Then it sounded like a tree branch snapped and all of the sudden she had two elbows.
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u/Trippyhippiemiguel 1d ago
Yeah I did the same thing when I was 14 looked just like this, had to get a 6 inch metal plate inserted into my wrist. Healed fast and a month on painkillers isn’t too bad lol
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u/TikiTakiDeAtun 19h ago
Yup... that happened to me also while jumping a fence when i was 8.
Horrible afternoon at the hospital for real
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u/baboongauntlet 15h ago
My arm looked like this when I snapped the same two bones, I can still remember the sound it made 🥲
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u/preyforkevin 2d ago
My last break was similar. My left radius is still bowed a bit. I didn’t want more surgery.
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u/BallisticHabit 2d 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 2d 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/NewNormalMan 2d ago