McWobble said:
Ouch! That's bad news. It's probably best to take the doctor's advice: when I broke my hand a couple of years ago I, ahem, continued to do some cycling which probably didn't help... If they were happy to send you home without a cast it's probably not terribly bad. I guess you'll have an appointment for the fracture clinic - you should see a specialist there who'll be able to tell you what's what and give better advice than the A&E doctor.
If it's a simple fracture it ought to take about four weeks to knit (and eight weeks to reach full strength) so I suspect you'll be off the bike for a few weeks, unfortunately. But wrists are complicated things and if it isn't straight forward then it'll take longer, sadly.
GWS!
yep, fracture clinic tomorrow, i did get a quick peek at the X-ray and it is a tiny crack, nothing out of line etc, or at least to my laymans view. It really isn't that bad, this is the 4th break I've had on that wrist and I've also broken the left elbow twice and had surgery on it as well. I didn't experience any of that nauseating sort of pain I've had with the more serious breaks. To be honest if it hadn't gotten worse, following yesterdays exertions, this may have never received a hospital visit. I've had sprains that have been more painful.
I'm sort of thinking back in saddle, gently, in about 10 days and then build it up based on feedback from wrist/arm. I will listen to medical advice but I also know how generic that can be. The surgeon that did my elbow actually exhorted me to try far more than the physio was recommending.
Thanks for the good wishes folks, I'll stop clogging up the thread now otherwise RichP will be on my case as usual
