Pinning metatarsal
OK, so you broke your foot, and the doctor told you that you broke your metatarsal, and the you hear the horrible words : Pinning metatarsal . Gosh, sorry to hear about that, so in a few words this means that you are in trouble my friend and get ready for a lot of pain.
Isn’t this what you wanted to read? Well, pinning metatarsal is not the end of the game, but if you have a decision or a call about the final of pinning metatarsal or not pinning it, my advice is to get always a second opinion. My case was pretty scary, I was going down the stairs of my house, yep the stairs that I take every day and boom! I fell and I broke my metatarsal and it hurt like hell…. I called my wife, she is a nurse and she told me to go to the hospital. Once I arrived to the hospital, the doctors and the nurses look at my foot, and they already knew that it was a bad metatarsal brake. Ready for Metatarsal treatment? I don’t think so, mainly because the doctors where confused. Should we pin the metatarsal or not?
So that is the question: pinning your bones in an operation or not…
The problem of pinning metatarsal is that is not guarantee to work, and it is painful, and the catch is that you will be waiting for a lot of time to see if it works or not. In many times if your fracture is so strong then pinning the metatarsal is the only option, and that’s why you really want to be sure, to speak to your doctor to understand if he/she thinks that you could recover by yourself. You will be amazed how sometimes your body manages to recover and in that way you could potentially prevent this sort of procedure.
I frctured my 3rd metasal in may, dr at first said a sprain then in june x ray and to just wear treainers as it was healing, now sept a new x ray showed bone not healing and hospital put me in moon boot last week but did say they may need to put a plate in foot, is this normal. since moon boot on the pain is even greater - is this normal, l really cannot afford to be off work as l have major surgery for gyna this year. please any help would be appreciated - thank you
Comment by Caroline Wilson — October 18, 2009 @ 4:41 am