Pelvic Rami fracture

No I haven't but I understand it's very painful and takes a long while to heal. I am so sorry and don't know what to suggest but taking your painkillers on time and asking GP to change if they aren't working for you. Best wishes for quicker recovery.

Would you consider asking your GP for morphine patches and are you allowed physio?

I’d push for another X ray or a scan and I think no follow up is disgusting!

Wish you a full recovery

Hi, I’m Nathan and I am a personal trainer at Basics and Beyond Fitness & Nutrition.

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this—rami fractures can take time to heal, and ongoing pain at week 7 is something worth getting checked. If you have low bone density, it can sometimes slow recovery, so a follow-up and possibly an X-ray would be sensible to make sure everything is healing properly.

In the meantime, try to avoid anything that increases pain and stick to gentle, safe movement as tolerated, focusing on maintaining strength in other areas that aren’t affected. Once cleared, a gradual return to weight-bearing exercise and resistance training can really help with bone health.

If you ever feel like you want more guidance or a proper plan, I can help you more at Basics and Beyond fitness & nutrition.

So sorry to hear that.

Basics and Beyond's advice sounds sensible.

My back injury was much more minor than yours. I found the NHS physios weren't very useful for me. I go to a private physio. Without this wonderful, well trained, hands on woman I don't know where I would be.

I hope you get better soon. Just take good care of yourself in the meantime. Your recovery is important.

So sorry to hear what you're going through. I've got two friends who had exactly the same fracture but when they reached the six week mark they were almost painfree. I really think you should be followed up in the orthopaedic fracture clinic. One of my friends had follow up by a hospital at home team until just after the six week mark. Would PALS be able to help. Really hope you feel better soon.

I had this happen to me exactly two years ago. The hospital didn't give any useful advice and said I could probably drive by the following week. My GP nearly had kittens when he found out, said I should only be walking to the kitchen to make tea for at least eight weeks. It took ages to get over the awful pain and even longer before I could raise the affected leg whilst lying down (no feeling there whatsover). The pain shooting up my lower abdomen only subsided about three months ago, so a long recovery time.

I would go to A&E tell them you’ve hurt yourself trying to walk and you think you’ve done some more damage, hopefully they will send you straight through to xray - that’s what I have done in the past and I was sent straight to xray and got the results immediately . Mine was a foot fracture

I think the reason there's no follow up is that there are really no circumstances in which surgery would be appropriate if no other part of the pelvis is fractured.

So really, your GP is the more sensible person to speak to if you're worried because they can offer pain relief based on their more extensive notes of what tablets you've tolerated before, which cause you problems etc and also refer to physio if neccessary and check you're coping at homoe - all of which is more the remit of your GP than the orthopaedic registrar you'd probably see at a follow-up.

I appreciate the system doesn't always work well in practice & I'm sorry you've got this pain.

I know how painful this can be . I have both RA and osteoarthritis. It's some years now that I tripped going up a step at home . I was probably late 70s , early 80s and fractured those areas of my pelvis .

The usual paracetemol/codeine combo didn't work but naproxen 500mg was brilliant . I wasn't allowed it for long but for me it worked its magic .

I'm allowed short term low dose of naproxen now if my other joints play up . But my pelvis is fine .

Sometimes you just have to find the correct medication .

Cossy

Would you consider asking your GP for morphine patches and are you allowed physio?

I’d push for another X ray or a scan and I think no follow up is disgusting!

Wish you a full recovery

I broke my left hip needing a replacement in May 2022, discharged from hospital with no follow up, no physio, no advice. I broke my right one in January and it was the same, out the door you go and goodbye. I asked my doctor to refer me for physio a few months ago, which he did whilst I was there, have just found out that the physio provider no longer provides physio in my area it's now a different provider. Yet it's taken all this time for them to inform my GP so that he can start the process again. That's what comes of farming NHS care to private providers!!

Yes, I have had it, I had an x-ray, nothing wrong with me, a ct scan, nothing wrong with me, exercise advised as it was a pulled muscle so I went to a private clinic and came home with a bunch of exercises all of which just exacerbated the injury because if you fracture the front one, you usually fracture the back one.
In absolute agony and without recourse to any pain relief because there was nothing wrong with me my wonderful doctor sent me for more tests. Eventually because there was nothing wrong with me, she sent me to see a friend of hers who was a doctor in the fracture clinic. "Oh yes he said,it's a clean break but healing now so you don't need any medication. After 5 months I had a result and I was thrilled to bits.
Had I been offered any pain relief I would have gobbled it down but you don't get pain relief for a strained muscle.
The moral of the story is, it will get better, every person takes a different amount of time to heal, don't struggle on, love yourself and I'm sure it won't last as long as mine with all that walking and exercise i was told to do. 3 years on I occasionally get a twinge. I think ive just vented my spleen haha, sorry!

You should have been advised to take Calcium every day to help protect the rest of your bones.
Cant understand why you haven't had an xray but call the hospital to find out why not

You can call 111 for advice re:pain management

This sounds very painful. I've never heard of it. What causes it? I fractured a rib 2 years ago and really painful when I tried to move even in bed. I was put on oromorph liquid for 2 months. Slowly reducing after a month. I couldn't have managed without it. I think you sound like you need stronger pain relief. Horrible for you.

Thank you

I've only been given Naproxen, Codine and paracetamol. They wait for physio is too long. Thank you for your advice 🙂

It's good to hear from someone who's been through it and gives me hope that this awful pain will eventually go.
Trying to sleep with the pain and now this awful heat is impossible. Roll on the next couple of months 😕

Thank you