Persisting in my belief that the only dumb question is the one you didn’t ask: Is it possible to have a broken nose and not know it?
I was play wrestling with my son when, whack, he inadvertantly headbutted my upper lip/nose. It hurt like crazy (duh!) but no blood. The pain subsided much like the pain of a charlie horse will.
But this was weeks ago and my nose, while not causing me much pain, does feel a bit tender if I touch it a certain way. Blowing my nose usually does so. It doesn’t hurt so much as feel oddly uncomfortable.
I’ve never broken a bone in my body, so I have no idea what it feels like - well, not no idea: Mrs. Call broke her leg a few years ago, and boy the sympathy pains
A broken nose isn’t technically a broken bone. (Jump in Doper Doctors…) The nose is cartilege IIRC.
22 years ago, a car accident left me with a broken nose, and it was a few weeks before I could get it fixed. By then it had to be re-broken.
My 250 lb EENT doc sat me in the chair and proceeded to shoot my nose with a serious stainless steel needle the size of a cell phone tower. He then swabbed my gums with cotton swabs soaked in a cocaine solution.
He then leaned over me and using a hammer and chisel as large as a baseball bat, started hammering inside my nose till he decided I’d had enough.
Then my nose was stuffed with 486 linear yards of gauze and left in place for a week.
By the second day, everything and everybody I came near stunk. Oh wait, that wasn’t them, it was the nasty, drippy gauze stuck in my nose. Silly me.
Also, you have no appetite when you can’t smell, and even if you did, it’s harder than hell to eat when you’re a mouth-breather. Hold your nose and swallow. See what I mean?
After a week, I got the gauze removed. Note to Nature’s Call: Do not, repeat DO NOT look at the gauze as it’s removed. You’re welcome.
Leaving the doctor’s office, I made a beeline for the nearest restaurant where I proceeded to eat breakfast for 7 hours straight.
It, um, didn’t work. The thing that’s got me puzzled it: I thought a broken nose would hurt like a son of a bitch, and would hurt until medical intervention fixed it. This only hurt like an acquaintance of a bitch, and only for a short time. Does this jive with how your broken nose felt?
As far as going to the doc: I certainly considered it immediately after, but as of now there’s no deformity (if there were it’d be an improvement) and the incidental discomfort is definitely tolerable. After Bus Guy’s story there’s no way I’d face the cell-phone tower for this!
No it didn’t hurt. Not even the day I broke, it, the pain was only like a bruise. By the time I went in to have it “fixed” there was no pai at all. The doctor said repairing it was a precaution against future problems if something was left out of place or some such nonsense. I think he just liked inflicting discomfort.
I broke my nose at a camp, which ended up going untreated (we weren’t sure whether it was broken). It didn’t hurt much after the day it broke. As I grew to adulthood, my septum got more and more deviated and I couldn’t breathe through my nose at all. Took a total reconstruction to let me breathe through it again.
If you are finished growing this scenario is less likely. Still, I might get the doctor to take a look.
Many moons ago when my uncle played for the Brandon Wheat Kings he smushed his nose pretty good, and the Dr. actually had him snort cocaine before he straightened things out.
When I was around twelve, I was at a pool party, frolicking and whatnot, when my cousin came down the slide, hands outstretched and KABLAM right into the bridge of my little button nose. Birds tweeted and stars danced around in a circle over my head. Holy cats did that hurt!. I never did anything about it, as the pain subsided by the end of the day, but I was left to grow up with a small but descernible bump in my nose. I don’t know if it was officialy “broken” but it suffered some unsolicited rhinoplasty that day. It’s still sufficiently “buttony” though
