This past Saturday I was driving a go-cart and it flipped over throwing my friend and I airborn. When we walked back to the house I noticed a lump on my leg the size of a baseball. Although it did not hurt terribly bad at the time and the swelling has gone down somewhat, I am sitting here wondering if there is a possibilty that I cracked the bone. There is 1 large bruise directly on the shin and a blueish grey area on the almost entire part of my shin. It hurts to put pressure on it and I can not bend my foot up. Has this happened to anyone? Basically I have banged my shin into things before pretty hard, but have never had that initial swelling and now constant pain. Please help me out as I am not one to go running into the doctor for just anything. Can I break a bone and still sort of walk?
2006-08-28 10:02:56 · 18 answers · asked by aak1117 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
You probably did not break it. Your lower leg would be useless if you had. It was just swelling from trauma and bruising.
2006-08-28 10:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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This past Saturday I was driving a go-cart and it flipped over throwing my friend and I airborn. When we walked back to the house I noticed a lump on my leg the size of a baseball. Although it did not hurt terribly bad at the time and the swelling has gone down somewhat, I am sitting here wondering...
2015-08-24 12:29:21 · answer #2 · answered by Polly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leg bones are pretty hard to break. However, it does sound fairly significant. I had over 600 pounds fall on the back of my lower leg and it only left a significant bruise like yours and I couldn't walk hardly at all for a month. I had to take some serious pain killers, but it wasn't remotely broken. It took a year to really heal. Tough to tell, though.
If you do go to the doc, visit an actual doctor's office and they will send you for xrays. It will be cheaper than Urgent Care or certainly the Emergency Room.
2006-08-28 10:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can definitely break a bone and still walk. It happened to my daughter. She and her husband were doing repairs to their kitchen and she fell (she'd been standing on a table - not sensible). They figured her leg was bruised and hurting, but she could walk so they thought it would get better. It was two days later when she woke up in the wee hours of the morning in quite a bit of pain and they went to emergency and she had a fracture of her lower leg. She had a cast for several weeks.
Moral of the story is - go get your leg checked. It could quite easily be broken and need a cast. Good luck with it. I hope it all turns out well.
2006-08-28 10:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've broken about three bones and not known for a few days until after the swellling has gone down. Get an x-ray.
2006-08-28 10:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by Ahwell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got the same type of injury in my martial arts class. i didn't go to the doctor and now a year later the front of my shin is still numb, when i work out that leg tends to swell up and ache, and my knee has never quite been the same.
now i wish i had seen a doctor for fear that i've done permenant damage to that part of my leg.
see a doc asap.
2006-08-28 10:11:06 · answer #6 · answered by Patti B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a severe sprain or slight fracture. But, yes, you can walk on a broken bone. There are a LOT of bones in the foot. Get it checked.
2006-08-28 10:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by BobbyW 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well it may or may not be broken (yes you can have a break and still be able to walk on it)...I wouldn't mess around and play a guessing game...you need to get an x-ray and find out for sure...and pronto!
2006-08-28 10:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by svmainus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, sound like a fracture. Expect to be in a cast for up to 6 weeks, sorry hun
2006-08-28 13:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by elixir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a condition called compartment syndrome that can cause the nerves in the front of the leg to become compressed by swelling. If you have any numbness, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. Gete it checked
2006-08-28 10:12:01 · answer #10 · answered by stumpfatc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋