I would also advise wrapping your ankle in an ace or stretchy bandage, starting at the toes and working up.

Then, STAY OFF IT. Put some ice on it. REST.

ELEVATE it too.

These will help.

Good luck!

Are these the type of support bandages I see in stores for athletes?

Everyone keeps saying ice, yes I should ice it or find something frozen in the freezer I can toss. I've never usually bothered with icing swellings, usually just wait for them to go down. I'm surprised this is still swollen the next day though.

It's 5pm now so I don't think I could get an X-ray outside of the ER and I'm not going there for that lol. That and I'm lazy. If it doesn't start feeling better in a day or so I'll have to. Any danger in not getting it X-rayed soon?

Any cold thing that you can mold to your ankle will work. Peas or corn, something that will bend.

I would make the xray a priority. If you have a hairline fracture, that would be helped with an xray.

Soak a big cloth bandanna in water; fold it twice (into fourths, alternating directions so that it's "square&quot . Stick it into a ziplock bag and freeze it. When it's frozen, apply it to the swelling. It won't take long to thaw it to the point that it molds to your ankle, and you can keep it there until it's completely melted--then re-freeze it, and repeat. Freeze two of them, and you can be freezing one while the other's on you, then switch 'em.

The only way you can tell if there is a fracture is by an x-ray, and if it's small, it may not even be visible there. I would agree with the advice to go to doctor or emergency-room. the support bandage is also a must, and keep weight off it for several days. twenty-five years ago, I rolled my ankle stepping off the porch and trying to step over my dog when he moved unexpectedly. Got swelling on my ankle the size of a tennis ball. First doctor x-rayed it, and missed a small fracture; second doctor found it two weeks later. All they could do was wrap it and put me on crutches til the pain went away--which took a month. Iced it for over a week before the swelling went down, and the bruise was there for two more weeks.

You really should go to the hospital and get an X-ray. I slipped on ice and landed on my side and had a hairline fracture in my hip and spent two months on crutches. Then I slipped on ice again and fortunately only got a sprained ankle. Those injuries are both just as painful.

The moment it happened I though, maybe I fractured it. But once I let it rest up there I was able to do all that hiking back down and a lot of it was down steep rocky slopes. I wouldn't think that you could do that without a lot of pain if you had a fracture. But then today I'm not as certain.

The ER would take forever though, and I'm lazy

Antiinflammatories as well.

With a fractured leg and concussion. I had no clue I had either. I just wanted to finish the century ride.

I was in a brace for 2.5 months.

In May I slammed my shin into a wooden block 15 minutes into a parkour workout, kept training that night, continued with 8 workouts a week between parkour, capoeira and gymnastics and finally went to the doctor a month later when my knee kind of blew up.

The doctor took my history and then took one look at my shin and asked why I wasn't there for my leg since it was still swollen 4 weeks after injury in addition to my grapefruit sized knee.

It turns out I had fractured my tibia and my continuing to train I further injured my knee with a torn ligament, which doesn't go along well with having more or less no cartilage in my knee and a syndrome that is exacerbated by swelling of the knee.

Additionally I did some hiking trips with a guy who told me about his experience having to help a friend hike 25 miles through no trail wilderness after the friend had his foot crushed by a boulder.

So yes, go to a doctor. Even if they can't offer a definitive answer with an X-ray, they can still give you better advice on what is or isn't safe to do on it under the circumstances.

Personally I wouldn't use just an ace bandage as it doesn't really provide enough stabilizing support. They are okay for constricting like when laying down, but if you have to walk on it, I'd use athletic tape, but you have to know how to tape yourself.

For my knee which is still injured, I keep it wrapped pretty much 24/7 to keep the swelling in check, and I use tape and knee braces in addition to the wrap when working out on it, but I tend to put a lot of force on my knees since all three of the things I train are knee killers with lots of landings and twisting.

Didn't realize. Cool that you do parkour, I envy guy who can do that. And I can well imagine the strain you put on joints doing those stunts!

I had to crawl back into the porta-cabin. My roommate wrapped it in an ACE bandage. It stopped hurting and I thought it was okay. Took off the bandage - stabbing pain. Saw the doctor and they put a soft cast and later a walking cast.

go to a doctor and get some x-rays done.

You don't want to mess around with that!

I might go to the DR tomorrow and get x-rays. Today is rather late. Thanks for the concern.

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No adrenaline involved here though, well maybe a little on the hiking part, but not like that. I've read similar and even more crazy stories of war wounds overcome my adrenaline and shock. Shock, although it will kill you is probably also one of the wounded soldiers best friends as it will remove the pain like nothing else will, well until it kills you of course.

than a hairline fracture... just takes a bit shorter to heal