About 2006 I broke my big toe line dancing but didn't realize at the time that I had broken it I thought it was sprained. Well I continued to walk around and over time it stopped hurting so I assumed the sprain had gone away. Little did I know three years later I would be having surgery on the toe. Apparently it was broken and didn't heal properly which in turn caused the tendon to wrap itself around the bone and caused a bunion and a bone spur. The doctor had to re-break the toe and he put a screw in that dissolved after 8 weeks when the bone was set. He had to fix the tendon and he got rid of the bone spur and they bunion. Moral of this story: if you hurt your toe get it checked out straight away.

I broke my little toe about five weeks ago. It began to heal nicely and the pain had all but gone, but after three weeks, I re-broke it again. Now it is as painful as ever and not healing at all.

I had a large chair roll over my large toe over 3 weeks ago. The toe has not stopped aching and the swelling has now confined itself to just the toe. I believe that it is fractured since the pain has not subsided for three weeks and the swelling remains but does subside after sleeping at night. I cannot afford to take off time from work, so I am assuming at some point this will heal.

I broke my large toe by kicking a giant iceberg that I thought was a giant snowball. My mother (a physical therapist) said that the emergency room visit was not worth the money, so I buddy taped it to the toe next to it, but this did not accomplish much. Taping and ibuprofen helped to alleviate the pain, but every step still hurts (and I ran track on a broken toe for 6 weeks, which didn't help!). To this day, my toe is bent 30 degrees in the wrong direction and I need a half size up when I'm buying shoes. So I would advise, should you break your big toe, seek emergency medical care to correct any misalignment, if only to prevent disfigurement, unless you don't care about that.

Broken toes are the pits! I went to emergency room because my toe was way to the side of my foot (small toe). Pain medications, a boot, crutches and tape. All you can do is ice it and keep it elevated and pray you don't hit it against anything for a while. I'm 11 days from the accident and feel pain when I do something stupid, but I'm getting better!

I just dropped my laptop right on my big toe. It hurts like a son of a gun, took a chunk of skin out with it too so its bleeding, but I'm icing and elevating it now good thing I work at a clinic so I can get it looked at right away in the morning.

My toe the one next to the big toe is broken and has been for 3 weeks and is still swollen and discolored, but I was told nothing else can be done but just tape it to the next toe and it will heal on its own. My whole foot is hurting after a long period of time and it's a hump underneath the toe in which I never had.

I had a hairline fracture of the big toe 3 months ago. The crack seems to have healed but I keep on getting burning sensation and pain in both my feet and legs. I actually slipped down the stairs and my right big toe got bent and there was this sharp and intense pain that I experienced at that moment. My right toe seems to swell off and on. My right leg and foot have more of the burning sensation.