broken bone = fever? - Foot Problems Message Board

yilduz · 05-06-2006, 05:23 PM

Krysta hurt her foor.

It doesn't look broken and she said if its broken at all, its just a fracture but it hurts a lot. She can't walk on it and she is using crutches and ice. She said something about a broken toe bone giving a fever and she was curious if it does that with your foot or something.

Basically... does breaking a bone in your foot give you a slight fever? She was looking at statistics and said something about breaking a toe would give you a fever of over 99.6 degrees. She said she feels warm but her temperature isn't that high.

yilduz · 05-06-2006, 07:51 PM

Okay... we were looking at some foot diagrams and we're pretty sure its the metatarsal bone on the outside of her foot... and its bruising all the way down the side...

Warrior313 · 05-07-2006, 01:19 AM

Broken bones quite often result in a mild fever.

Also, a break is the same thing as a fracture, despite common belief.

yilduz · 05-07-2006, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Warrior313

Broken bones quite often result in a mild fever.

Also, a break is the same thing as a fracture, despite common belief.

well i guess its just apparently accepted that a fracture is just meant as something that is just slight... i guess they're called hairline fractures? something... i dont know...

i'm convinced its broken... but its hard to convince her to see a doctor. i've been trying all day but hopefully she'll see one in the morning. its after 3 am right now.

kimann · 05-07-2006, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by yilduz

well i guess its just apparently accepted that a fracture is just meant as something that is just slight... i guess they're called hairline fractures? something... i dont know...

i'm convinced its broken... but its hard to convince her to see a doctor. i've been trying all day but hopefully she'll see one in the morning. its after 3 am right now.

"just a fracture," hairline or otherwise, in a non-weight-bearing bone would be liveable, and you might get by with ignoring it. PLEASE, take it from someone whose life is absolutely altered permanently because she ignored a "little hariline" fracture, convinced herself in time that it was a bad sprain, GO TO AN ER and get it addressed before the scar tissue starts... Even a small hairline fracture, which could be stable, at some point in her recovery, could rapidly worsen, and if there is much scarring, could make the outcome difficult. I had the same mindset a year ago, and my life will never be the same. Your feet bear the brunt of as much as twice your body weight at various points in your walking gait, and they don't forgive. Please. Print some of the stories you find here and show them to her. I will pray for you & Krysta, let us know how things go. Kim