I think i broke mine- my ankle is very still, very painful to try and move, i can move my toes, but again very painful. It's swollen a little bit all the way around the ankle joint, and it has light bruising, but the foot has little blotches of purple now too. this happened last night, and i cannot walk on it whatsoever. Is it sprained really bad or broken? (no insurance, so if it sounds like a break, i'll go, but if just a sprain i'd like to avoid the expensive ER bill...)
2007-08-09 05:42:17 · 5 answers · asked by Angel♥Baby♥Girl 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Okay here is my best advice: Stay completley off of it. Do you have some friends who have some crutches you can borrow? Wrap it with an ace bandage, keep ice on it. If you did it yesterday and it IS broken then it would not show up on an xray until the swelling of the tissues goes down (another expensive visit). From personal experience, a sprain or torn ligament are much more painful (and your foot/ankle is never the same) than a fracture. Make sure that if you wrap it you wrap it tight but not so tight that your toes get numb. Do you have a friend who might have had this happen before and they have one of those special flat shoes (I think they actually call them a boot but they look more like a big open shoe) you can borrow. After the swelling is a little better (might take several days) try to walk on it with the boot. If you absolutely have to be on it because you work or something then a less expensive thing would be to go to an urgent care center or walk in (no pun intended) clinic. Emergency Rooms are much too expensive and have longer waits. Urgent Care centers and Walk In Clinics cost much less and they usually have their own X-Ray dept and have crutches and the boots there. You also might want to try calling your local health department and ask them if there are any free clinics in your area. We have some here that don't even ask your income.
Good luck to you. My heart goes out to you. I know how it is to be hurt or sick and have no insurance.
2007-08-09 05:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by icunurse85 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I badly sprained my ankle about 3 weeks ago. I was in a hurry going down the stairs, lost my balance and landed on a bad side of my left foot, causing my left ankle to be stretched going on the inside. The first 48 hours were excruciating and the pain was un-believable. I've never had a serious ankle injury before.
So I immediately treated it using the RICE method. The following day, the bruising and swelling were so horrible. I found out that I got a second degree sprain and immediately panicked after that. I had a football game on that week and it been looking forward to it because I've been training for rt. I had teammates that had similar injuries and it took them months to fully recover, some of them stopped playing altogether. So I kinda had a short-term depression because I can't imagine myself not being able to run and play sports anymore.
Because I was so desperate to recover again, I contacted a lot of people that I know who do sports and asked them if they had similar injuries. One friend of mine, from the boy's football team in my university, told me about H.E.M. Ankle Rehab. I got a copy 4 days after I got injured. I immediately read and followed what was instructed and felt improvement on the first day. I was able to walk a bit, but I was in pain.
A couple of days after that, the swelling and bruising were subsid-ing significantly and on the fourth day, I was walking comfortably again. Although I've had felt a bit of stiffness, I continued doing what was instructed. My sister was surprised that I have recovered this fast. I told her about this book and was shocked on how effective the procedures were. I'm just so happy that this book was shared to me and how effective it is.
Heal your ankle fully & fast?
2016-05-18 09:45:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there'll be a lot of swelling in the area, and it's obviously going to be painful; whether it's actually broken or sprained is up to the doctor to decide - you had better go to make sure that's its nothing too serious; you're going to have to go to the doctor to figure out what it is!
2007-08-09 05:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds broken to me. May I ask what you did that caused the injury?
2007-08-09 05:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by USAman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be either. if it's broke, you really need to find out and have it cast.
2007-08-09 05:46:55 · answer #5 · answered by the older big kid who helped invent dirt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋