Hand surgery?

[SixSquared]

Just curious... I hurted myself and popped a bone out of my hand, and it only recently became an issue, so docs are gonna do surgery to fix... anyone had hand surgery/broken hand(s) wanna tell me how bad it's gonna hurt? It's my left (non dominant) hand, but I just wanna know how much this is gonna suck...

[jon360]

good meds FTW!!!!

[rickgiblin]

i had hand surgery and i had a cast on for 11 weeks and a rod in my hand while it was in a cast... it sucks ass for the first 2 or 3 weeks but then you kinda get use to it. mine was my dominate hand that i do everything with so it really sucked. but get some meds and try to get a refil cuse you'll be on them for the first week

[SixSquared]

fuck... I was hoping I could get away without relying on the meds... I need all the clarity I can get for school... *sigh* I dunno how long I'm gonna be casted/if I'm gonna be casted at all... the doc was saying that he hopes to be able to just kind of file it down and pop it back in... who knows..

[rickgiblin]

you might not have to have a cast by the way your saying he could just pop it back in place... my bone itself was broken in 2, my right pinky finger, but they had to put a rod in it thats why i had to have the cast... thats also where most of the pain came from because if you bumped it or anythign, it hurt bad. but you should be ok with only a day or 2 at the most if it only poped out. just keep me informed and let me knwo how it goes, good luck also

[Hulud]

it wont hurt at first.

you will be too fucked up on meds to notice, then you will get painkillers. take as little as possible so you can have them for later use or whatever you want to do with them

[SixSquared]

^^ I have the coolest piece of paper ever that basically gives me unlimited lortab 750 refills after a nasty horseback riding accident when I was a kid... their idea is "if you're ever in a lot of pain, go to the pharmacy and they'll give you five of them for the pain".

My idea is "if you're ever in a lot of debt, go to the pharmacy and they'll give you five of them for the resale value".

[Crazy Asian]

Honestly I dont know the extent on the injury but my cousin got in a fight swung and his didnt angle righ so then he hit the guy in the temple with the back of his thumb and the next it swelled up really bad. Turn out he had to have 2 nails stuck in their.