A bad sprain

I did a similar thing playing football in 2001. I was running off the pitch and didn't see a kerb edge. My ankle slipped off it and it hurt like hell, even stopping me from walking. It swelled up like your in photo and the pain kept coming back at random points for about 3 years after.

Hope you have a speedy recovery :)
 
Sprains are not nice, for me it was very painful to walk on and even when resting it was like a dull ache. Mine looked very similar to yours, but maybe not quite as swollen, although I did have to remove the laces in my boot so it would even go on.

I sprained mine at work stepping off a platform and being self employed I didn't want tot take time off so hobbled about for a few weeks. Then less than a year later I did the other one in :(.

You should be thankful you dont have the pain, but even still i'd go and maybe get a second opinion if you are worried.
 
Did my ankle in a few years ago, took a running jump off a flight of stairs (from memory it was 11 steps) and my foot went over at the bottom. Not my finest moment and the worst pain I have felt right up there with pulling the end of my finger off. Ankle swelled up massively and I ended up on crutches for about a week and limping for a few after that too.
 
Maybe it's just me but I've always found the worst injuries tend to have less pain. I was told at school pain is the bodies way of letting you know you've ****ed up. Guess when it's so obvious there's no need for pain :D.

Paper cuts are the worst kind of pain imo :D.

Maybe get a pair of work boots 1 to make badminton more manly and 2 to protect your ankles next time :D.
 
Mynight said:
Maybe it's just me but I've always found the worst injuries tend to have less pain.
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I found that to be true too. I degloved my right thumb and took the next two fingers down to the bone across 2nd knuckles which then peeled the flesh back all the way to the nails. It looked like something out of the Hostel movies yet didn't hurt.

Another time I came off the bike at a touch over 80 and, once I'd stopped bouncing of kerbs, a parked car and demolished someone's garden fence, I ended up with little more than few scrapes, bruises and a dislocated elbow. Weirdly, the most painful injury from that accident was that when I pulled mu glove off I left my fingernails attached to the inside. That throbbed with intense pain for well over a week.
 
I feel your pain! I had a trip at work a few years ago and wrecked my ankle, it looked similar to yours, it was stupidly swollen and turned almost black all over my foot and right up the ankle. A&e also told me it was a sprain and ligament damage and to try and walk on it.

They were insanely busy and the nurse literally just had a quick look at the x-ray after I asked her if she'd had the chance to look.

I was off work for a fortnight and it took months to get better. Infact its still not the same, I have less movement in it now.

I have also broken the same ankle in the past and honestly, this sprain was more painful, it was the same type of pain only more severe, I couldn't believe it wasn't broken.

Moral of the story is I never went back for a second opinion but I wish I had. I'd do the same if you're worried.
 
that looks like more than a sprain, looks like a blood vessal has burst. Had an injury on my leg that looked similar was told by a doc that an artery had ruptured. Not serious but looked horrific.
 
I had a serious sprain like that years ago and my ankle was never the same, ligaments were torn so had a propensity to turn it more than prior to the sprain.

Subsequently broke said ankle when slipping on ice (medial malleolus and dislocation), worst pain I've ever experienced when trying to stand on it after I broke it. Now have a plate and screws in there as a permanent reminder.
 
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