treesprite
Active Member
- Messages
- 498
If I wasn't a skater, I would probably just "wait and see" because the pain is not even enough for ibuprofen. However, as someone who skates, I don't know if I should have it looked at by a doctor or not. I called the Teledoc service my job insurance provides, to talk to a doctor on the phone, but being a general doctor, he was no help at all.
An aquarium powerhead (circulation water pump) fell on the top of my foot Saturday morning. The pain is not severe, but I have known of people to have broken feet and not even know it, and I have osteoporosis so my bones break easier than normal. I can walk, but am putting more pressure on the outside of my foot, so now my ankle hurts too. There is a crackling noise when I stretch down my foot and toes/arch my foot, which I do not have on the other foot. Initially, right after impact, there was a very large bubble with bleeding under the skin (kind of a shocking sight). The bubble flattened out by spreading out to a big and puffy hematoma/bruise area that covers about 2/3rds of the top of my foot, including the side above the arch. While there isn't a lot of pain (except for putting direct pressure on the impact point with my fingers), the crackling noise is very disconcerting.
Am I over-reacting to this injury? I don't want to be like my friend who was told that her foot had probably been broken for 2 months and was too messed up from lack of treatment to ever heal correctly. She already had arthritis in her feet, and the pain was no more than what she was used to from that. Her arthritis doctor was doing a routine exam when the damage was discovered, and she (my friend) was shocked about it.
An aquarium powerhead (circulation water pump) fell on the top of my foot Saturday morning. The pain is not severe, but I have known of people to have broken feet and not even know it, and I have osteoporosis so my bones break easier than normal. I can walk, but am putting more pressure on the outside of my foot, so now my ankle hurts too. There is a crackling noise when I stretch down my foot and toes/arch my foot, which I do not have on the other foot. Initially, right after impact, there was a very large bubble with bleeding under the skin (kind of a shocking sight). The bubble flattened out by spreading out to a big and puffy hematoma/bruise area that covers about 2/3rds of the top of my foot, including the side above the arch. While there isn't a lot of pain (except for putting direct pressure on the impact point with my fingers), the crackling noise is very disconcerting.
Am I over-reacting to this injury? I don't want to be like my friend who was told that her foot had probably been broken for 2 months and was too messed up from lack of treatment to ever heal correctly. She already had arthritis in her feet, and the pain was no more than what she was used to from that. Her arthritis doctor was doing a routine exam when the damage was discovered, and she (my friend) was shocked about it.
Last edited: