Non healing fracture experience

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Diane,

What part of your body has the " non-healing " fracture? You asked if

anyone else has what you have. Just to let you know, I broke my

radius (one of the bones in my arm) very near my wrist a few years

ago, maybe 4 years of so. It was a nasty break but the orthopedist I

had felt confident he could fix it.

He also said, early on, that two complicating factors for people with CMT are

arthritis and low bone density (osteopenia). He tried two times to put a plate

in my wrist to help with the healing, and both times the plate became dislodged,

apparently partly because some sort of poor qualities in my bone matrix.

I did eventually discover I was osteopenic (the next step is

osteoporosis) and started takiong Actonel which is similar to

Fosamax. Anyway, it took 18 months for my bone to heal, which in my

case meant my body had to make a lot of bone to fill in the space

that was shattered. Hang in there! Yours will heal eventually,

especially if you can avoid stressing it.

Sherry