Medical question

[duffman91]

Also, it hurts when I open my mouth, but the pain comes from above my ear, and doesn't seem related to the bit of floating bone. There's no bruising anywhere, and I only feel pain when I press it, or when I have my mouth open.

This would lead me to believe you might have fractured your skull. If a piece of bone fell off, who knows how extensive the damage is.

Just say you tripped and hit your head on a metal bar.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

i'm not a doctor but it sounds like cancer to me.

[sliver]

no it was AIDS-cancer

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

[sliver]

someone should put that text on a picture of the AIDS dog.

[shiznit]

Fuck that, get well now.

[sliver]

[Canidae]

Can't see how it could possibly infected unless it is cut open and exposed to the inside of the mouth

[Dave]

Can't see how it could possibly infected unless it is cut open and exposed to the inside of the mouth

k doc

[sliver]

your bone marrow has shit in it that isn't supposed to reach your blood stream, iirc.

[Canidae]

News to me. Your marrow is what produces your blood.

[Guest]

Got in a fight last night, and while I was on the floor, I got set on by about 6 people, and someone with a big gold ring cracked me in the jaw and a piece of bone has chipped off and is floating between my jaw and ear. It's about the size of a pea. Should I be worried? It fucking hurts, but I don't want to go to hospital because I only just got out of prison last month and I'm a bit paranoid.

Sorry to hear about that.
You should go to hospital, no worry about your jail record they (Dr)
have a confidentiality serment to honor.
Good luck.
Pete

[sliver]

News to me. Your marrow is what produces your blood.

Hrmm, i'm not really sure what i was thinking of, i just have a vague memory of learning something like that. all i can come up with on google is cancer information, but then again i don't really know what i'm looking for.

[xer0s]

Danny Larusso ffs :lol:

[saturn]

Got in a fight last night, and while I was on the floor, I got set on by about 6 people, and someone with a big gold ring cracked me in the jaw and a piece of bone has chipped off and is floating between my jaw and ear. It's about the size of a pea. Should I be worried? It fucking hurts, but I don't want to go to hospital because I only just got out of prison last month and I'm a bit paranoid.

WTF is this question, of course you should go to A&e or the GP.
Apparently you haven't lost conscience yet, but that's a concern when coming to head in jury.

[saturn]

I think that you should definitely have it looked at. No question about it. The hospital doesn't need to know how it happened, make something up or whatever. But you don't want that thing geting lodged in the joint or something.

oh christ ffs, what MDs don't need are patients who lie about what really happened. Just tell everything that happened, doctors protect the privacy of their patients.

way to go with that advice tnf :icon27:

It could become infected, it depends if its sharpe and it rips the inside of your mouth to bits or summat. The fact your jaw hurts suggests you have bruised the main tendon? Temporomandibular Joint or the mandible i think..

fuckin' hell, stop trying to be cool Don :icon27:

[feedback]

I would think that with your background in martial arts you would tend to avoid situations, being satisfied in the knowledge that if you really wanted to you would kick the person's ass - as opposed to actually doing it....

Oh, you! Tehe.

[saturn]

your bone marrow has shit in it that isn't supposed to reach your blood stream, iirc.

GTFO

btw, there's no bonemarrow in your jaw. When you crack a large bone like the hipbone, the main concern is bloodloss (inside the body!).

When there has been no contact with the outside world, the risk of infection is small. The human body will react on a broken bone with swelling, pain, redness, rising local temperature and dysfunction of the bodypart. That has a reason and basically it is to prevent you from over-using the bodypart and to restore the function.

Geebs is an expert on this.

[Canis]

Yeah, what a fucking idiot I am. Drive to A&E on a Sunday night, wait for 6 hours in the waiting room with all the drunks, or sit at home and consult the internet before I go to the doctor on monday.

I'm such a fool.

Exactly...the proper choice should have been obvious when the symptoms occured...

[glossy]

I think that you should definitely have it looked at. No question about it. The hospital doesn't need to know how it happened, make something up or whatever. But you don't want that thing geting lodged in the joint or something.

oh christ ffs, what MDs don't need are patients who lie about what really happened. Just tell everything that happened, doctors protect the privacy of their patients.

doctor-patient confidentiality, innit? so the police couldn't weasel it out of the doctor if they tried.

my mate got in a similar situation on saturday night, except with the fully sik wogs that seem to be flocking to melbourne lately. Some random cunt was talking a lot of shit, then invited my mate into a
"fair one-on-one fight" (the cunt's exact words). my mate has this guy in a headlock and is almost done with him, until the cunt is trying to scream "Help! Help!" so his two huge mates kick my mate to the ground.

fucking idiots :\

[MKJ]

police could get it through a court order i reckon, but i dont think that'll happen in this case. i mean, a random bar fight?

and you people should tell saturn you're sorry. he's all angry now

[Geebs]

Geebs is an expert on this.

...and I say, get it x-rayed. No doctor's going to dob you in for being in a fight - as Sat said, any information you give is confidential and can only be given out with your say so. It's best not to lie to the doctor for two reasons - one is that you can just confuse the fuck out of them when the symptoms fail to match up with the mode of injury, the other is that most of the time they know perfectly well that you're bullshitting and get really tetchy because they're trying not to take the piss

For the record, when I'm writing police reports (with written consent from the patient, natch), I really don't waste much time with what the patient told me, and I never document any allegations made by the patient, as there's no way I could back any of that stuff in court. I just document the extent of any injuries and the degree of disability.

Plus, the government has instituted the four hour A&E limit, so you'd be seen within 2 hours pretty much at the most for a "minors" sort of case like this.

What I would suggest, though, is if you can find out which of your local district general hospitals is the one with the on-site maxillofaxcial surgery team (usually there's one serving two or three different hospitals), so if there's something needs wiring, you're in the right place.

[sys0p]

Just had an emergency appointment, and apparantly it's not bone, it's something else like bone that I've just forgotten the name of as I write this. Apparantly it'll disappear in a couple of weeks. It's a build up of some material or something that has come loose..

And I wasn't worried about having to tell A&E my story, I'm on licence for another month, so any trouble and I'm straight back inside, no questions asked. It wasn't worth the risk.

[SplishSplash]

cartilage?

[Pauly]

Get the pikey fuckers on here. We'll beat them senseless with our flames. They won't know what hit em.