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Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) Distal Radius Recovery
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: 20 hours ago | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I am so glad you are on your way to a solution. The same happened to my daughter after a fall and complex open fracture. She is almost 4 years out from the initial injury, and 3 from a second fracture of the same wrist and hardware, and has 85-90% function in her hand, probably the best it will get, but not enough to return to OR skilled nursing, so she is back in school for her MSN so she can teach.
Caution - both of us have learned that you almost never get to be 100% pain-free after a traumatic injury - my healed places really hate barometric changes and cold, even after many years. But it is background pain, not the severe pain you have been having.
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@sueinmn, thanks for your reply! Any reduction in pain would be a gift. Right now it feels like there is a needle in my wrist that gets tweaked every time I move my arm a certain way, when something bumps a finger, and sometimes with no identifiable cause. For the past several hours, this pain has been constant. I can't take opiates as they make me nauseous, so I'm using Tylenol and ibuprofen which only take down the pain about 10%. The external hypersensitivity makes it hard to sleep since my wrist and lower portion of my thumb hurt anytime they make contact with anything. I prop up my wrist/hand all day, but it's impossible for them to not touch anything at night. I can't wait for this to be over and am praying that the surgery helps.