Your opinion please! Doctors or not?

[Tannis]

My DS did the same thing a few months ago, he hurt his leg/ankle or something on his bed there was no marks or swelling initially but he wouldnt bear any weight on it so I took him to the Dr's the next day. It was slighlty swollen but the Dr didn't feel it was broken but told me to wait until Fri (this was on Wed) and if he still won't walk on it to get the xray. Thursday morning he still wasn't walking...he was actually crawling to get around but by lunchtime (after I made the xray appt) he just started walking again with a very slight limp that night he was fine.....Sorry long story but I think he jarred it and it did hurt at 1st but then he was scared to put weight on it in case it hurt still. I can understand you not wanting to take him to the Dr's if its nothing....but if he isn't any better by tomorrow I would take him, can anyone come with you to help you with the other kids?

[Junglemum]

How'd he go FJ? You made the right decision taking him.

[Olive]

mmmm hope all is ok fiona! worried though as you havent been online since this morning

[Pretty Butterfly]

Mmmmm. maybe she slipped to the hossy for x-rays????

Hope all is good.....

[Charlyfrog]

Hope all is ok FionaJill

[*Efjay*]

sorry had a hectic day! Ok, took him, had it xrayed. Everything is perfectly fine but she said some times it can take a few days for it to show so come back in 10 days to follow it up.
Its really painful for him. He fell on it earlier & OMG the poor kid was howling for a good half hour,
he is dosed up on panadol & nurofen. Poor kid. he white as & not eating much.

[Junglemum]

Poor little man. FJ if it is still really bad in a few days i would take him back. It is true that it can take a few days for a fracture to be seen on x-ray, but it is more like 48-72hrs.
Pale and loss of appetite sound like the pain is pretty bad. 10 days is a long time to be in that much pain.

[paradise lost]

FJ once when i was about 10 i fell up a set of stone stairs (don't ask! falling UP the stairs) and bashed my shin up real bad. It wasn't broken but the bone did bruise quite badly (you can't see bone bruising, it's IN the bone, but apparently bones have really good blood supplies, i know someone who nearly bled to death from a broken thigh!) and it really hurt to weight bear for a week or two. I ended up with a big calcified lump where i'd hit it which slowly went away over years - i've still got a wee knobble there now! Anyway it wasn't at all broken, just bruised, but it did take a while to heal.

Hope he's feeling better really soon.

Bx

[agadoo]

sounds like the poor love has a toddlers fracture, he def needs to have an xray, even if it is just to put your mind at ease :-)

ETA sorry just saw you got it xrayed yesterday :-)
can your GP organise to have the xray looked at by a radiologist? sometimes they can email the images, there are some fractures that are very easy to miss.

[*Efjay*]

sounds like the poor love has a toddlers fracture, he def needs to have an xray, even if it is just to put your mind at ease :-)

ETA sorry just saw you got it xrayed yesterday :-)
can your GP organise to have the xray looked at by a radiologist? sometimes they can email the images, there are some fractures that are very easy to miss.

The xray was done at the radiologist & the report said there was no bone abnormalities.
I then went back to the Dr's & she said to follow it up in 10 days.

Im watching him now play, he isn't walking on it but he is scooting around on his bum & putting some weight on it as he moves. Obviously not thinking about it LOL.

It is obviously very painful for him. Poor kid, I have passed on my genes. I was known as LIttle Miss Bump as a Kid.

[ShootingStar]

Ouchy ouch.

Jesse had a few times where he's hurt some part of his body and seemed the same. Last was his wrist. We thought it was broken as he wouldnt let anyone touch it or come near him. I think he may have hurt it but was also too scared to move it thinking it would hurt again. But in time he must have just sprained it or something as it came good.

Hope hes on the mend soon.

[*Efjay*]

I don't like how sore his leg is. He has been getting around happily on all fours today. But Evan accidently just stood on his leg & once again he is howling the place down.

He also says it now hurts when I push the back of his leg....

[Junglemum]

I'd take him back tomorrow FJ. Better to be over cautious. It's a long time for a kid to put it on IYKWIM.

[*Efjay*]

I don't know where I would take him tomorrow... Other then emergency & I really don't want to do that.
Monday I wont have the car either... I will have to do something tomorrow I think.
Like you said its too long. I strapped it for him earlier & just doing that was painful.