[Closed] Can a sprained ankle really hurt this much?

Yes, it can. It really can.

Have you been RICE-ing?

Yes it can. When I did mine I couldn't run for 6 months and had a limp for nearly a year

this is the guide to it being worth x raying for a possible break

http://www.mdcalc.com/ottawa-ankle-rule/

Yes. And yes again.

Yeah. My Wife sprained he ankle playing netball and was in absolute agony....turned up to collect her after receiving a phone call from the team ready for bit of a joke, but quickly realised she was not in a mood for laughter....

You find that position where it doesn't hurt too much then 5 seconds later its back with a vengeance. It's going to be a long night.

yes yes and yes.. mine was so swollen they had to cut my boot off and i couldnt walk unaided for 6 weeks.. it hurt was black blue yellow and BIG

Yes it can. Physio can also work wonders too. 🙂

Yep. And still gives me the odd twinge 20yrs later...

Not to be alarmist but my advice is go see a well-recommended sports physio. Two docs and a specialist (with x-rays) missed my subluxated ankle following a bad eversion injury/'sprain'. It was eventually identified and fixed (near instantaneous relief) by a private physio who specialises in football injuries. By then however it was too late as walking (aided by stick) on the subluxated joint for some months had triggered full-blown inflammatory arthritis, a life-changing disease which I still deal with 19 years later.

I once came off my bike going down the childhood drive, so that my leg got pulled underneath me as I came off, and I really badly tore some ligaments so my whole calve swelled up, and my physio did wonders for me. Was on crutches for a fair while, and then on one crutch until none was needed.

Can't recommend seeing a physio strongly enough after my own good experiences, if you can find a good one they're ace.

I got a chainring in the Achilles once. I was in discomfort in the evening, but in the morning when I tried to get out of bed...holy mother hell...

OP how's the ankle?

That ankle is now weakened and you will carry on spraining it for the rest of your life. You can help to rehabilitate it by using a wobble board twice a day.

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Yep. Sprained my ankle and knee a month ago at the PMBA Grizedale round. Couldn't bend at all, and it hurt like **** for two weeks (although after a visit to A and E it turned out that part of that was clotting in my calf that fortunately didn't turn into a full-blown DVT). Then it started to die down to merely bloody annoying, mostly. It's still painful if I step on it the wrong way or just do too much, like walking for too long, or standing still for too long, or doing anything remotely interesting.

Muscle loss over just four weeks has been remarkable, and range of movement in both knee and ankle are still restricted. Exercises prescribed by a sports physio are definitely helping now though. Do get it looked at. Do RICE, properly. Do dose yourself up with ibuprofen and get some co-codamol for nights if it stops you sleeping properly. Forget about running for the foreseeable. You have my sympathy, take it easy.

Definitely. I was out running last Friday night, "went over on my ankle", I got home ok but the pain was so intense that I ended up in A&E- fractured 5th metatarsal.

Follow TJ's link above; could be it needs x-rayed to rule out a fracture. TJ knows these things....

No pain this morning but wary about putting any weight on it.
I'm excusing myself from all chores this weekend!
Thanks for your feedback, I've broken bones and torn ligaments but last night was the most painful thing I've experienced.
Running in the woods , in the dark with leaves covering the ground isn't a good idea even with my latest invention.
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Yep. And still gives me the odd twinge 20yrs later...
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This ^^

Rolled mine last Sunday, Monday couldn't put any weight on it at all, by Friday was ok, now sore again.

That ankle is now weakened

The weakening is most likely resulting from the period of non-use following the injury. As mintimperial pointed out, muscles lose their mass scarily fast- it's about 2% every 24hours, and it's the muscles around a joint that stabilize it.

The most common injury following a turned ankle is a sprain (partially torn ligament) but it can also be a ruptured ligament (completely torn) or a fracture which would both require medical attention, so always worth getting it checked if in any doubt.

Otherwise contrast bathing is great for decreasing swelling and pain relief:

2 bowls of water, one hot (but not hot enough to scald, obviously!!!!) and one cold, big enough to emerse the ankle.

5 minutes in the hot water, whilst doing ankle pumps (bending and straightening your ankle)

5 minute in the cold water, still doing the ankle pumps

repeat once (so 20 minutes in total)

and relax and enjoy the pain reflief.

Try running with a hand torch, this will let you see the shadows cast by the 'texture' of the trail. With a head torch you can't see the shadows.

And yes, a sprained ankle can really hurt, for months.

More than a decade since I turned one my ankles over, and it's still a bugger.

Have you been RICE-ing?

R.I.C.E (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation) has generally been superceded by P.O.L.I.C.E. (Protect, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression and Elevation). The reasoning for this being that there is a high incidence of injuries caused by the non-use of a joint or joints that are often more serious and life-changing than the original injury, so mobilising and weight bearing as early as possible without exacerbating the original injury is advisable. Obviously seeking profesional advice as to when it is appropriate to begin loading and by how much is no bad thing!! 🙂