How many times CAN you break a pinky toe?!

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I did it again! I've broken my left pinky toe for the 6 or 7th time! I don't even tape it up anymore!
Just wondering how many time can you break a toe before it just flops around?
My poor pinky toe is so fragile.
Thanks if anyone know my answer.

Sheesh, that's a lot of breaks! I unfortunately don't have an answer, although I know would assume that, as bones mend themselves, it depends on where the breaks are and how frequently it's broken. In other words how quickly you broke it from the time it broke last.

Just as a question, how long does it normally take for your little toe to heal? I may have broken mine a few weeks ago, but it still hurts on occasion. Never broken a bone before so I'm not sure what a broken toe is supposed to feel like other than pain on top of pain.

I can't begin to tell you how many times I jammed my foot into the stove walking into the kitchen when I was a kid. Each time it was a take-your-breath-away kind of pain. Only broke toes once though. Chalk it up to clumsiness on my part. Are you doing a similar thing to your feet? I "feel" your pain.

Littlelu,:
yes it will hurt for several weeks! The feels of a broken toe at first (for me) feel like a vibrating disconnect. If that makes any sense. Then after a day it just aches and feels like a VERY deep bruises. For me at abouy a week into healing I feel like I need to pull on my toe to pop the knuckle. Which I can't do because the bone is broken, very painful and seems to be forever stuck. Like permanent fused incorrectly.
Scoots5012,:
I am a clutz and I snap my pinky toe sideways on everything from the doorways to chairs, to laundry baskets, coffee tables, once dropped a brick 4-5 feet on to my foot breaking 3 toes. One time an industrial Jake stand one time I just swam away from one of my kids! Crazy right!?!?

So it takes 4-6 weeks for a broken toe to heal, that averages out at 5 weeks. So we will go on the assumption that you cannot break a toe whilst it is healing. That would technically not be breaking it. This gives us roughly 10.5 potential breaks per year.

Assuming you live to 80 that gives you a maximum of about 840 possible breaks in your lifetime.

Every time you bang it you can break it. Indicator for osteoporosis - lots of calcium and vitamins have helped mine

I'm 52 and its happened to me every couple or three years since I've been walking and my toes are fine. At the moment of course.

Osteoporosis sounds likely for my often breaks over the last year's! I took a bone density test and at age 45 the doctor said I have the bone of a woman in her late 70's! It's from all the steroid injections in my back and pills I take for my breathing!
Glad I'm only breaking toes!

You can break bones a ∞ number of times as long as they heal. (I mean you can't break something that is already broken right) It'll be only be slightly more fragile if you let it heal. Like, I think around a half a year ago, I broke my arm, from slipping of a mountain and it is only a little weaker than it was before.

I smashed mine when I was a teenager and now it is a mass of jagged bones and scar tissue. My record so far is 6 times in one year.

I broke mine when I caught it on the corner of my bed - AGONY!

A day or two later I did the exact same thing again - DOUBLE AGONY!

So I was really careful when walking on it for the next couple of weeks, until my Standard Poodle, Cracker, saw a squirrel in the local park - he pulled suddenly, and it forced me to stamp my foot hard down on the concrete footpath - SUPER-DUPER AGONY!

I'm a clumsy swine.

Ouch!! ! But love to hear I'm not the only clutz! Lol

I feel your pain.
Did your toe take a left or right turn?

Taping toes together is what we did.

Yea always my left. I use to tap it up but now I don't bother! Lol

I take multiple meds for asthma and I don't like that I've had to take an inhaled steroid so long for this reason. Especially because I don't like milk and am probably not getting enough calcium XP I should fix that....

Thankfully, I think I may have broken my pinky toe once, but that is it.

^ huh, I had no idea there was a connection there. I will have to make sure I get more calcium. Thanks for making me aware of this.


I really feel for those of you who are such frequent toe breakers!