Post #2515650

2026-05-11 00:34 UTC

@aredridel@kolektiva.social When my foot and leg were broken they put a cast on my foot. My foot became swollen in the cast and started to hurt from being pinched. It was the worst pain of my life. Worse than when my appendix burst, worse than the broken leg. After SIX HOURS I got them to cut the cast and just sat there crying since the pain had stopped. But they just didn't understand how much it was hurting. I still don't understand why it was so bad. I was on some painkillers but it still hurt.

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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-05-11 00:35

@aredridel@kolektiva.social I told them it was a 9 and that I'd find a way to cut the cast off myself and that seemed to bring some more action.

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@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 01:08

@futurebird@sauropods.win @aredridel@kolektiva.social oh the swelling was probably pinching a nerve or ten. That would suck.

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@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social 2026-05-11 09:33

@futurebird@sauropods.win The pain from the compression of the swelling was possibly caused by the ischemia (blood being cut off) in the foot, so you might have been getting a loop where blood flowed in, tissue swelled, compression meant the blood couldn’t flow out and so forth. Ischemix pain is very very real as not only is the swelling causing pain but the damage to the tissues is as well. And, as someone else said, there can be nerve compression as well. I’m glad they opened the cast, often we used clamshell casting to allow some space for the limb to swell for that reason.

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