How do you know you broke your foot?!


Question: Today i fill down the stairs and then my foot hurts so bad i could not get up for a couple of seconds. Then i walk on it and it hurt as hill. Then later in the day my foot like swelled up and my foot hurt as hall. Plus it hurts around my main point of my bone. But it hurts when i wiggle it around. Should i go have someone look at it or is it just a sprain?


Answers: Today i fill down the stairs and then my foot hurts so bad i could not get up for a couple of seconds. Then i walk on it and it hurt as hill. Then later in the day my foot like swelled up and my foot hurt as hall. Plus it hurts around my main point of my bone. But it hurts when i wiggle it around. Should i go have someone look at it or is it just a sprain?

redness swelling pain when u touch sound in the place like crepitus ARE signs of fracture.. GO for a X-RAY SOON

Sounds bad enough for an X-ray to me.

You should probably go in and have someone look at it. Just to make sure that it isn't broken. Even if it is just a sprain, you should still have it braced so that it can heal.

You won't know exactly if you have broken it, sprained it, or fractured it till it is x-rayed by a doctor. If it is broken you would have trouble twisting it left to right and up and down. It would have swelling and bruises right on the bone. I would make an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow it if does not get better overnight. For now ice it, and keep it up!

if you don't see bone ends sticking out of the skin, you will need an xray.

You should have it checked out ASAP.
Even if nothing is fractured... you may have torn a ligament or muscle which can be just as serious.
I tore an arch muscle once, delaid seeing a doctor, ended up making it worse and had to have surgery. It took over a year to finally heal.

I think you should have an x ray of your foot.
I broke my foot in 1997, and it hurt like crazy. It bruised so bad it looked like someone had poured purple dye on my foot for weeks. I sat on the ground and cried and cussed like a crazy person. I had to wear a special boot.
I was walking off my porch, hit the stairs wrong and fell off.
My boyfriend sprained his ankle around the same time and it took him a lot longer to heal with not a single broken bone.





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