Htfu

It must be the cold weather, but the point in my arm at the elbow that I broke during the summer has been aching like a bastard the last couple of commutes this week! It was never put in a cast as it was broken along the bone rather than across. They gave me a sling and painkillers. I chucked the sling after a week and was back riding in 3. Now I'm thinking that may have been a bad choice on my part.

It was my first broken bone. Does anybody else experience this problem? And how do you deal with it? Pills and/or booze? I won't be riding 24/12 - 1/01 but I don't want to stop riding apart from then.

i get a few aches in previous breaks in cold damp weather. i don't think it matters about how you heal it. you could try one of them magnetic wrist bands, i get told they work well for that kind of thing. i'm after one to help the aches i get down my left arm after smashing my little finger in 3 places. weird aches shoot up my arm.

I shattered my heal about 11 years ago and have shite loads of metal in there holding it together. I really feel it when its cold. Still!

Anyway, after a brake you tend to feel the cold weather in the joint. It should get better over time. You just have to grin and bare it. Or go to your GP and get some physio on it.

I find old injuries play up in the winter (broken toe and knee that had an arthroscopy). Its fairly normal but you get used to it.

armwarmers!

oh, and yeah, i had three near fatal head injuries when i was a kid, I feel the cold around the areas that were fractured/shattered a lot too. So I wear a hat.

You read my mind Gabes!

(wrote this between your posts)

telepathy was a side-effect of smashing my head a lot as a kid.

I knew you were going to say that...

so did I, strange eh!