I broke my collarbone twice. Both times it was painful as hell. Second time I went to an old school ortho doc who said if the broken ends “are in the same room” then no surgery. Six weeks later when I was still in pain got a second opinion from another younger sports medicine-type
ortho and he said if I had walked into his office 6 weeks earlier I would have bought myself a surgery. He said it was too late to do surgery at that point and I would have to wait it out. Didn’t get back on the bike until 12 weeks but started riding on a stationary trainer soon after the accident. I still had trouble sleeping on my left side for three years after the accident. It’s almost back to normal now 4 years later. I would rather break any other bone in my body than the collar bone.