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What Causes Swelling And Bruising In Ankles Despite Absence Of Fracture?
3 days ago I inverted my ankle playing basketball and had a lot of force go into it. After the injury I couldn't move my ankle for 15 minutes and it felt tingling. I went to a clinic and saw a nurse who took an xray and said it's not broken and gave me a boot so I could walk as I couldn't put pressure. Also was given loratab for pain. Two days later still lots of swelling and bruising and I constantly feel dizzy and light headed. I stopped the loratab for over 24 hours and still experiencing dizziness and light headedness. What should I do
Tue, 4 Feb 2014
Hello, Welcome Thanks for consulting HCM,
I have gone through your query, you have injury in your ankle, now swelling is there dont worry it can be sprain , not fracture ,do warm water formentation , , ( put towel in warm water containing pinch of salt squeeze it then put it on swelled area) and apply crape bandage on swelling , if swelling is there then go to orthopedic surgeon.
Hope this will help you.
I have gone through your query, you have injury in your ankle, now swelling is there dont worry it can be sprain , not fracture ,do warm water formentation , , ( put towel in warm water containing pinch of salt squeeze it then put it on swelled area) and apply crape bandage on swelling , if swelling is there then go to orthopedic surgeon.
Hope this will help you.
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