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Originally Posted by mlewis78
The doctor said there were no fractures (cracks are fractures). I had figured that since I had no trouble walking or getting up after I fell. They took x-rays. I have never had an MRI for my knees or back. Many years ago I had a stress fracture from running in my shin. The doctor saw that on an x-ray. The pain from that was unbearable for a while.
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I've had cracks--and yes, whilst they are minor, relatively, to full-scale breaks and all that--they didn't show up on x-rays. I had a broken big toe (yes, really, Iknow, it sounds dorky but not only could I not wear a shoe for 9 months, but OMG, it hurt) and they had to do something other than an X-ray to find the damage. It was called something tongue-twisty like "a comminuted something-something fracture." NINE MONTHS to heal, and it kept breaking.
My mother also had some sort of tricky, not-visible-on-x-rays "fracture/cracks" in her ribs, about...15 years ago.
Anyway, that's why I asked, It sounds odd to me that the fall hurt less two weeks ago than it does now. I'd wondered if indeed you could have cracked something in your spine and then subsequently somehow made it worse?
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