Should I go back to the ER?!
Question: Should I go back to the ER!?
Ok, I messed up my ankle pretty bad yesterday, and I went to the ER!. They did x-rays, and then came back and said I had sprained it, slapped an ace bandage on it and gave me pain killers!. No crutches or anything, so I have to crawl to the bathroom or anywhere else I need to go!. But, the problem is, I think I broke it!. I've broken my other one before and feels the same way!. I've even sprained my ankles before and it's never hurt this bad before!. Also, when it happened I heard it crack and pop just like when I broke my other one!. So, my question is, should I go somewhere else and get a second opinion or should i just try to deal with it!? The other reason I think I it's broken is because it's not sitting normal like my other one!. It's sitting kinda crooked!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
I would get it re-checked!. This time tell them you have had a broken ankle before and this feels the same!. Show them how it is sitting crooked!. Didn't you look at the X-rays!? Generally they will show you there is no break!. I guess they didn't do that!. Give them the information you didn't give them yesterday!. Borrow a crutch from a friend, or at least a cane!. When we took our son in for a broken bone, they didn't give him a crutch!. We just supported him!. Are you keeping your leg elevated!? That will help, but I do think you need to have a look at those x-rays!. The break could be somewhere that's not easily seen!.
Good luck to you!. You did the right thing by getting to the emerg!. room in a hurry, and now you still don't know what's going on! :-(Www@Answer-Health@Com
Good luck to you!. You did the right thing by getting to the emerg!. room in a hurry, and now you still don't know what's going on! :-(Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'd say go to another ER, yes, because when I sprained my ankle, they gave me crutches, but I could still walk on it!. Normally I'd trust the X-Rays but that sounds like more than a sprain!. So, yes, go back to the ER or another one!.
Best of luck
God bless
-MaxWww@Answer-Health@Com
Best of luck
God bless
-MaxWww@Answer-Health@Com
Def get a second opinion and if it is broken sue the other Hospital for medical negligence!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
O yea totally go back!!! Some doctors are so quick to bandage folks up these days and send em home!. They misdiagnose all the time!.
I'd get it checked out again before you really do some damage to it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'd get it checked out again before you really do some damage to it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
try going back and another ER!. good luck and feel better soon! =)Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'd definetly go back!. My friend broke his wrist and had to go back 4 times before they found it in his x-ray!. Just kept telling him to take some advil and It'd go away!. Eventually he pretty much forced them to give him a cast!.
Then on the other hand, there is my dad, who went to the ER and got an Xray, and they said he broke his wrist, gave him a cast, he came back in 6 weeks and they looked at the Xray again and told him it was never broken, they had just seen the line between bone and cartledge!. So he ended up having to take 6 weeks off work (he's an appliance repairman so He couldn't do his work one-handed, especially when it was his dominant hand), had to take out a loan as we had no emergency fund and my mom doesn't work, and they basically said "whoops!"!.
So yea, if you think it's broken, it likely is!. I always think doctors don't take enough time with things!. I've wanted them to look at my history to determine what was going on before, and they are usually pretty quick to prescribe something without hearing your details!.
GRRR doctors!.
Go back!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Then on the other hand, there is my dad, who went to the ER and got an Xray, and they said he broke his wrist, gave him a cast, he came back in 6 weeks and they looked at the Xray again and told him it was never broken, they had just seen the line between bone and cartledge!. So he ended up having to take 6 weeks off work (he's an appliance repairman so He couldn't do his work one-handed, especially when it was his dominant hand), had to take out a loan as we had no emergency fund and my mom doesn't work, and they basically said "whoops!"!.
So yea, if you think it's broken, it likely is!. I always think doctors don't take enough time with things!. I've wanted them to look at my history to determine what was going on before, and they are usually pretty quick to prescribe something without hearing your details!.
GRRR doctors!.
Go back!.Www@Answer-Health@Com