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Related: About this forumwhoa, swollen finger still a bit swollen...
anybody know how long it takes a swollen finger to subside?
Banged my hand slipping/sliding into a pool...didn't take rings off ring finger in time and had to go to the ER the next day to have them cut off...that was almost 3 weeks ago...
still a bit swollen and feeling that way...wondering if I did permanent damage by not removing rings immediately (NOTE: don't wait to remove them if injured). Ice didn't do it.
PA in ER didn't mention how long it would take for the swelling to go down...it's no big deal but I am wondering if this thing will be forever, now that I am older...
Warpy
(111,358 posts)before it's completely healed. Just give it some more time.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)No break. I just waited far too long to get the finger taken care of. And I should have removed the rings IMMEDIATELY after the accident happened instead of waiting and then trying so desperately to use ice to shrink the swelling...ack...
But I guess I coulda cracked the bone a bit...funny, it wasn't that bad a fall, a slip, really. as I was trying to put my feet into the water (I was fully dressed). The pool had a vinyl liner that was deceptive...it looked like stone in an in ground pool. I thought I was stepping on stone but of course the water made the vinyl very slippery and I went sliding in...
Warpy
(111,358 posts)so it's not unheard of. You could have screwed up a tendon, too, and they take nearly as long to heal.
libodem
(19,288 posts)6 weeks usually knits a bone back together. A bad sprain is supposedly as bad as a break. So I'm thinking still about 6 weeks.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Warpy and I showed up at the same time with a similar take. We're good.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Now it will.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)ago. I was in the presence of a doc who is a family friend and he advised me to take my rings off immediately or "they will have to cut them off in the ER."
How stupid could I be?
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)This heals deep muscle tissue. It is amazing. You can find it in any health food store or maybe drug stores too. You will start healing within 24 hours.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)corresponding digit on my right hand. And I can still "feel" it a little bit.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)It is one of 3 things I keep in my medicine basket.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)lately...before the ring finger disaster I managed to bruise my toe just walking around London in late May...i still has a funny color underneath the polish is have on it so as not to scare me when I look at it...
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)because I am a klutz perfected. I broke my knee cap last summer and between the arnica gel and comfrey compresses, my knee healed in record time.