You know my arm has a cast from mid-hand, partly around the thumb, and 3/4 of the way up my arm. I also confirmed when the final cast was put on that I am allowed to do whatever I can with the fingers available, but not to pick things up necessarily.
Anyway, things hurt BADLY. I know some is my own fault, but I'm wondering if the pain should still be like this?
I do have pain which feels like the top of my hand and the wrist area, and expected from typing and other little things I have done. But it hurts BADLY. And the forearm on top is where it seems to hurt as well. No swelling, no tingling, no loss of feeling or any of those things.
I mean, I wake in the middle of the night and barely move my arm and it hurts. I always have to find just the right position and angle to keep it in to keep it hurting the least. But there are times that my fingers are dangling as usual, but then for one reason or another they get extended into a normal position, straight out. And man, it hurts! Sometimes I literally stop, wince in pain or even move or drop a little because of the sudden pain and how bad it can be.
My wife would explain me as a wuss that can't deal with pain, and she's mostly right! But this one is legit, no exaggerating here. I was thinking in my head that it would be mostly pain free (as they implied originally), and that once it was removal time, that it would also be pain free and just need to be rehabbed some. But hell, it's being removed on July 5th and it often hurts as bad as the night I broke it.
This seem correct to you? Am I expecting too much ya think?