Has anyone broken their pinky finger?

Question:

I think I broke mine a few weeks ago. It's swollen, but never really bruised. It's movable, but there is moderate pain. I have not seen a doctor because I believe all they do is splint it. I have a job where I use my hands all day, and if I go in witha splint and cannot do my job, I will be sent home, no pay. I cannot afford to do this. Am I being stupid not seeing the doc?

Answers:
Hi -- done it. I smashed mine, so it was necessary to shove it all back into place and splint it to the ring finger, etc. It still wound up crooked and doesn't work right, which means I can't play the piano -- not that I ever could. :)

Are you being stupid? Kind of ... just get an X ray and let them splint it. I took off my splint a lot (maybe that's why it's crooked ....) but they tell you a lot of things when you are seeing the doc, such as never to splint one finger to another without gauze between the fingers, since the fingers will bind to another. And plaster isn't used these days for fingers ...

Be honest with the doc and it is very possible the doc will make it so you can take the splint off for work (may want to see you an extra time for the X ray because you don't want it to heal incorrectly).

Trust me, even though I saw a doc and it may seem to you that I should have better range of motion, etc., you seriously don't want the level of reduced motion I have. My choice was to rebreak it or never play the piano again ... it looks funny, but then to break it in 7 places, I think I'm pretty lucky -- at least I still have a finger there, right?

After an xray, it is splinted.

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