Ouch!  Put ice on it, keep it elevated as much as possible, and take Advil
or another OTC pain reliever.  No, there isn't anything a doctor can do.
Purrs for a quick healing.

Joy

Well, no. The most he'd do is stabilize it with one of those orthopedic open
shoe-things and give you a pain reliever.
My sister broke the bathroom door in on my toe once and broke it. There is
*nothing* that hurts worse. Purrs!!
Sherry

I don't have any advice, but will send heas of purrs for the owie.

I break my little toe 3-4 times a year.  Nothing to be done but wait for it
to heal.  You can tape it to the next to if you feel better for doing so.

Usually I just keep stubbing it and stubbing it.  Then it finally heals and
I break it again.

TBird <---- queen of OW

I think I broke my toe once, but since I didn't go to a doctor, I'm not
sure. I just wore a very loose slipper on that foot (when I couldn't go
barefoot) and waited for it to heal. Which it did, although it was
painful for a while and the whole area of the foot around it swelled up
and turned a remarkable series of colours. The worst of the pain cleared
up reasonably fast, or I probably would have overcome my reluctance to
hobble over to a doctor's office and spend some time in the waiting room.
I tend to be of the 'wait and see if it will go away on its own' school
of thought, rather than the 'take every scratch to the doctor' one,
although my current GP does encourage a certain amount of routine
maintenance.

Wet bathroom floors are not your friend. Especially when someone has
thoughtlessly installed a bathtub in exactly the wrong spot. Is it
bathrooms or kitchens that are supposed to be the most dangerous room in
the house?

I hope your toe heals up quickly.

The ones I have heard of have just had them taped across the foot to
restrict  movement,  Toes and fingers are sensitive and can really cause a
lot of pain.   MLB

Just the standard RICE

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation.

And lot of sympathy.  I've broken the little toe on my right foot at least
half a dozen times.  Barefoot and clumsy don't go well together.

Jo

Ow!!  I know how this hurts, I broke my big toe once. You won't believe how
I did it.  I had bred a foal from my mare and my blacksmith said he would
buy him for a stallion when he was a bit older (he was a lovely looking
palomino)
So there am I in the stable with this youth of nearly two years old still
complete with his nuptials :-)  fluffing up the straw to make him comfy,
giving him a lovely bucket of food and replenishing his water.  I was just
coming back in with his water when he swung his backside towards me.  Eh?  I
said "don't be so stupid, Zenith, don't even think about it!!"   So he
kicked me, *very* hard.
My immediate and also automatic reaction was to kick him back.  In the split
second it took me to do this, he spun round to face me and my foot connected
with his shoulder blade.
Result - one broken big toe.
It swelled up and went black and blue.  I had it x-rayed, and it was indeed
broken.  There is nothing that can be done for broken toes apparently but I
was advised to put cotton wool between it and my next toe and tape it
together, also to put a pack of frozen peas on it for as long as I could
stand it.
It was several weeks before I could put a shoe on again.  I wore one slipper
and one shoe to go to work in..
It's fine now.  Completely straight, and never hurts me, even when it's
cold.
Would it be impolite to ask how you broke *your* toe?

Tweed

If it's bent away from the rest of your foot you really need to get it
attended to promptly. Otherwise all they'll do is buddy tape it to the
next to to keep  it in place while it heals. My mother got a
greenstick fracture of her little toe and it was bent at
rightangles... and the silly doctor said 'we'll leave it that way and
do an operation after it heals a bit.' So she said 'just straighten it
out NOW!' and he did... hope you feel better soon.

Ouch!  No advice but purrs for quick healing coming your way.

Wear shoes.

I think I remember someone saying that if it's a 'long' little toe rather
than a stubby little thing, you can splint it to the next one along.

Jeanette

No advice, but purrs you soon feel better. It may be worth phoning the
doctor.

Mogget wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes

They say it can get infected. And depending upon the break, it may take
quite a while to heal properly. However, I broke a toe many years ago
and never went to a doctor. I taped it to another toe for a few days,
and it healed quite well. One man I used to work with broke his little
finger, he had one of those metal splint things, so he just taped his
finger to it for a couple of weeks. It healed with no problem.

Since no one in this news group can see it I recommend going to a
doctor. There's no telling what happened without seeing it. Good Luck.

When I broke my little toe, it was sticking out at right angles and
didn'y hurt much. I thought I just dis-jointed it. The doctor said it
was broke and just straightened it out. No xray or anything. Then he
taped it to the next toe. BTW, this doctor is an idiot. Funny thing, I
walked in just fine. But after hte idiot straightened and taped it, I
could hardly walk and was in great pain. He sent me to a clinic that
has an xray. The xray showed a spiral fracture. So when the idiot
straightened it carelessly, the sharp splinter of bone ripped the
inside of the flesh. The clinic doctor said enough damage was done to
it and he wouldn't mess with it as it was in a good enough position
and he didn't even tape it. He put a cast shoe on me and said wear
thick white socks and keep it elevated. But he said just use aspirin
for the pain and swelling. It healed in six weeks, slightly crooked.

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CATherine