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Q: bone pain & healing times for broken leg

broke leg in march just had screws removed pain is worse than ever is this normal taking vicodine not helping

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Cort, Health Guide

6/27/09 3:16pm

My understanding is that the healing time from a broken leg is very variable. If you broke your tibia, for instance, that can take longer to heal. Sometimes it takes the bone a long time to come together. Here's a story of a guy who was still experiencing pain a year later (!) (but it sounded like his break was probably worse than yours.) Over time his leg was healing but it was taking quite awhile.

http://home.earthlink.net/~robwrites/id13.html

That said there are several tests - x-rays, bone scans, tomography scans - they can use to determine if there are any real problems or if its just taking a long time.

Good luck!

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