5krun

I’m glad to see the great detail here!. TRP mattress

Wow, this is amazing! Soghat e Sheerin is the best place for desserts. The people who work there are friendly too. Sweets and Bakers

Thanks for this helpful article, learned a lot from it!

Thank you for posting such a great article! I found your website perfect for my needs

A code will certainly be sent out to your phone get in the code in package attended to it. Click on the sign-up switch to complete your outlook login account.

In this fastest innovation advancement, Mobdro APK is a method where you can get gotten in touch with big streaming that is simply awaiting you to get it watched.

editor Android app in PC editor that meets nearly fifty percent of our video clip editing and enhancing requirements

Sitting with a forearm cast typing this with my bad hand…

This one is not as bad as the full arm cast I had a few years ago where I had to be on Klonipin the whole six weeks. I got through it, but had to taper off the drug afterwards and was pretty unproductive throughout.

If you are Christian, it helps tremendously to realize that the cast, after all, is ultimately a gift from God provided to us through our God-given ingenuity to heal us. Imagine the pain and deformity we would endure without them!

Clothes constrict us, but keep us warm. Elevators, cars and planes constrict us but expand our horizons. Moving through the world naked and on foot with nothing to support our injuries and illnesses would be the worst!

Oh please help so desperate . Really struggled with a temporary cast for 1 week plaster room made mistake and put boot on instead of plaster cast then when I returned to clinic doctor said no I want you in a cast . I said I didn’t mind the boot and he said a long as I good he would trust me to not take it off but could tell he wasn’t happy about it . But I’m now in more pain than before the clinic appointment don’t know what yo do but so scared if I phone he’ll say plaster it , I did kind of say to the lady doing the plaster room it made me feel ill the fault of it and she just laughted .

wish that i’d looked this up a couple of weeks ago to know that i am not going insane. i’m close to panic now incase my doctor doesn’t prescribe more sedation. i can deal with the pain of a broken wrist, but i end up calling a distress line - nights when worst - to have someone talk to me while the med kicks in. i’ve tried to open the side that is not hard with a razor, and other times i would have taken it off any way at all - but not possible. my concern is that this claustrophia may become a life battle.the

Before I broke my wrist I would have laughed If someone had suggested such a thing as cast claustrophobia.
Unfortunately, It is no laughing matter.
I had a bad dream one night that I had my arm stuck In a pipe and woke up pulling at my cast !!
I had to endure It for almost 7 weeks and I hated It. The only way I could get over It was to try and accept It and not to think too much about it.
Keep it elevated on a pillow at night, keep It dry and don’t do too much physical exertion, or it gets very sweaty and uncomfortable.
It helped me to know I had a joiner friend who could cut the thing off If I finally flipped !!
Taking an allergy tablet definitely reduces any itching, and If It does get hot and sticky buy a balloon hand pump and pump cool air through the cast as often as you need it.
Remember, that things on there for a reason. So try and put up with it.

Good Luck !!

It’s funny you asked that today, I just finished another 5k race today. My time was 33:15. Good for me. I’ve done 7 5k’s a 4 miler and 5miler since my operation. My advice is do your physical therapy. It really helps, also stretch a lot. I’ve been lax on my stretching and I’m paying the price, pain here and there. Good luck and just don’t rush it.

So you should be at 1 year and 8 months now. Have you tried another 5k?

I’m at 21 weeks and looking to run my first 5k post op.

Thanks,

Fidel
bfee2002 at yahoo dot com

Karen,
There are several devices that can and often do replace casts for foot/ankle injuries. There are generally referred to as boots. It doesn’t take much research on the interwebs to find them. As for calling the AMA, why bother, Google has the answers.

I know replies you get will be useless - i hav e same problem, the only relief i hav e is to take off the split cast myself every night and sit still, then put it back (I count the number of times the bandages go around the limb to make sure it has the same compression - takes hours! I am goint to ring the AMA (doctors’ medical association) to see if there is an alternative to the “plaster coffins” - surely someone has invented something in 100 years!

The tan lines that a hard cast will leave are horrendous, Hopefully you had this cast over the winter months!
I empathize with you, after breaking my arm and getting my cast off it was the strangest feeling, and my arm kinda smelled bad.

When I tore my first AT (8 yrs ago), my Doc put me into 3 casts in a row, with me objecting more loudly each time. Finally, instead of cast #4, he relented and made me his first patient who EVER went into a walking boot — hinged and everything! It was a huge improvement in every way.

Lots of modern rehab protocols — including the one I’m on now, for my second ATR — skip the casts completely, and the results seem to be better clinically, as well as easier on the patients.

Hey, Tim! I just noticed that you resurrected a blog that had been dormant since September!

Cast Claustrophobia it sucks I have dreams about trying to get if off I had my dremal tool out the other night just about took it off ….my doc put me on calodapin 1 mg 4 times a day it helps a bunch

The cast seems sturdy, The black tape holds it together quite nice. I went with black because I’m a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan and plan to add the Steelers logo to the front. I hope I won’t need to cut it open any time soon

assumptiodenied, I am shocked! I am in Ontario too, but had to pay 80$ for each fibreglass cast!!! Now explain me that. It depends on the hospital? I guess Toronto is better subsidized than surrounding small towns?? Is it not the same OHIP plan?

Funny, after 3 days in my first cast I felt too tight and went back to emerg and this is exactely what did did. But 3 days after my doctor dutifully put on a new cast. I guess he did not trust me that I won’t take it off…. Just do not fall (which I did, a week later with a kitchen stool) because it might not be rigid enough to protect your tendon.
Nice colour! (I guess you do not plan to bake on the sun with it)

smoley

In Ontario the costs of the fibergalss casts were around $25 per, though covered by our provincial insurance.
The aircast was partially covered, costing me $125 but I delayed my payment long enough to get a new bill from the hospital and they included the non-discounted cost on the form: $1250.
The Aircast at least is reuseable, its just not returnable. Hygeine they say - I suppose it isn’t all that different from wearing someone else’s sock that they’ve worn for 6 weeks and couldn’t wash…

Having been a regular readre of this site for a few months now, I had started to suspect that the typical UK NHS approach was a bit on the old fashioned side, and the results of this study seem to support that view. Maybe it’s a funding thing? Casts cost about £40 each (that’s what the plaster room lady told me). So if I have, say, 4 of those that’s £160 which I suspect is rather less that the cost of a boot. You’d think the boots would be reusable, but apparently they’re not. I might wave this report under the nose of my orthopaedic surgeon friend and see what he thinks. Doctors must hate the internet - all their patients know far too much these days!
Smoley

I don’t know if you’ll find a difference unless you’re unlucky enough to have this experience twice but Doug is carrying a significant amount of ‘right’ in his post. No matter which route you end up choosing just make sure you keep the blood flowing.

My personal experience was splint/cast/boot and I don’t think i could have slept in the boot, the splint was bay far the most comfortable but the cast was way lighter.

Yes, it’s the boot.
Dylan

The general rule in such studies is that the more aggressive rehabs have better recoveries, despite the common intuition that more cautious = safer. Of course, there is a limit to how aggressive you can be, but I suspect most ortho docs are nowhere near that point yet.

Doug

What is this ‘mobile cast’? Is it this infamous boot?

It’s not as bad as you would think. Just keep it elevated and ice behind your knee. If you’re up and about it will begin to swell, toes turn purple and all that uncomfortable stuff. I was in a splint for one week, cast for 3 weeks and then put in a boot. My doctor was pretty good about making sure my cast didn’t cause any discomfort and I was able to go in at any time to have it changed out if it did bother me….Good Luck

To sryan2673,
Totally understand your concerns. I had a bad night with cast claustrophobia last night, first time after three weeks in hard cast. Probably because I got a new cast that morning and it is rather snugger than the old one. Kept thinking about the Dremmel in the garage! But it wore off, just needed to “find a happy place” and try to relax. 2nd timer is quite right, and a glass of wine is probably a good idea too! Some of the US doctors seem to go for the boot a lot sooner than in UK, so there may be alternatives if you think you’ll really suffer. Hang on in there,
Smoley

I think surgeons put us into hard cast, so that there is no way for us to remove it (because we would if we could!) so probably they are right. It is for your proper healing. Sorry, it will not be fun. And I found the cast especially uncomfortable for the first few days. So keep elevating, rent some good movies - have a glass of wine. Cheers!

Evening Sryan!
Another welcome to the club from a fellow sufferer also still in cast. You will learn new depths of patience in the next few weeks! My advice is to (a) work out how you are going to basically function (eat/wash/laundry etc) and having got that sorted (b) make a big list of all the things you can do sitting down! I’m half way through sorting out a lifetime of photos and then I’m going to do Christmas cards! At least then you feel like you are not just wasting weeks of your life. Also, if your home suits, get yourself a wheely office/computer chair because then you can scoot round the house instead of crutching everywhere. And you can while away loads of time on this site. So if you get frustrated (and you surely will) just bash away - we’ll be here for you!
Smoley

Congrats on finishing the race! That’s amazing! Welcome to the club that none of us wish we were part of. Just stay positive and hopefully the next 4-6 weeks will fly by and you can get out of that cast. For me, being in the casts for the first 6 weeks were the hardest. Once you can get into a boot and see PT, maybe even some PWB that’s when it gets exciting. It makes things a lot more bearable when you’re actively taking part in your healing.

Ryan

Hi, this is a comment.
To delete a comment, just log in, and view the posts’ comments, there you will have the option to edit or delete them.