OH OH OH!!! I sympathize so very much. I broke my collar bone a few years ago (are you sure it wasn't my xray up there!!). It was awful sleeping, dressing, showering, and anything else for about 2 weeks, as someone else mentioned. Then the bones begin to lay down callus and get "sticky". That is when the pain decreases, albeit very slowly.

I second everyone who says you should get different pain meds!! They will not all make you sick (and shouldn't) so get a change! I took Lortab and only a half at that, as it made me so spacey. The button down the front shirts were all I could wear and I bought a few at Walmart and wore a few of my son's shirts.

As far as surgery, I would avoid it like the plague. You will heal without it. You go to Midas, you get a muffler, you go to the orthopod, you get surgery!! The ends hook up, make a bumpy heal and then remold them selves. I am a little shorter on that side but the bump is gone...it took about a year. Do work your shoulder in a few weeks to avoid the frozen shoulder that Deb talked about.

You are not a baby. This is one of the most painful fractures you can have because there is no way to totally immobilize it like for a wrist or ankle and so much of what you do with your arms is dependent on your shoulders (collarbone) stabilizing for you to move. Good luck and take care of yourself. This too shall pass!!! I am thinking of you!!!!