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Post #2515653
2026-05-11 09:33 UTC
@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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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-05-11 09:37
@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social As far as I know there was no obvious dammage once the cast was removed. The foot seemed fine, it still had several broken bones with pins in them (this was after a major surgery, it was a very bad set of broken bones) but it wasn't like the foot was blue or numb or anything. I think it may have just been a pinched nerve. But good lord that pain. It was so intense, just in your face blocking out everything else, impossible to ignore or escape, or get used to.