pinky tinkling

[♥Miss♥]

its more like a half cast it covers the left side of my left hand from finger tips up too my forearm. yes i can see my pinky and it appears to be normal color. i did take the cast off carefully yesterday so i could loosen it and that helped a bit. sometimes my pinky still tingles though. i have a doctors appointment today in a few minutes actually to have this checked out. the doctor custom molded the cast to keep pressure on the bone to hold it in place but by doing that i belived he pinched off circulation a bit or pinched a nerve. im also hoping that by removing the cast for a few seconds i didnt screw my bone up. i read somewhere that when you get a boxers fracture the cast supposed to allow you to move your fingers to keep them from locking up. the way my cast is i have full use of my thumb, pointer and middle finger, but my ring finger and pinky are inside the cast. so i cannot move them at all. i mean i am in no way a doctor so i may be wrong, but wouldnt a cast on JUST my hand that holds the bone in place and still allows me to move my fingers be better?

 

[Don18]

it sounds klike it was casted much better than the insane way mine was,geez,my whole freaking hand? taking that cast off and then having to slide it back on probably was not one of the best things to do given the situation and what he told you? but i am glad you are seeing the doc today. perhaps they can do another or make it fit a bit better.

any possible nerve damage just kind of comes along for the ride here whenever there is a bone that gets broken. it gets much more possible for damage when the area just involves any of our joints. its just the way the nerves have to travel thru joints vs where they get located with long bones? and damage can also occur when realigning and casting too, the same can happen with plain old splinting as well, thats why i aslked you ow this felt shortly after that casting was done. any NEW sensations or tingling that occurs after, that you simply did not have before can be a sign that when it was popped back into place,they also possibly compromised a nerve. but that can also occur just from trauma swelling too. hopefully all will be well. please let us know what your doc says. FB