Right I need advice!!!
Please can someone recommend some pain relieving gel/cream that I can put on my ankle??
3 weeks ago I tripped on the stairs. My ankle was very very sore, but I waited til the day after to go hospital thinking it would get better.
Day after off I went to Accy vic. There I saw a doctor that looked at my ankle ( literally ) and said " oh you have just twisted it. Keep walking on it and it will ease off. Day after I went to work. The most painful 6 hour shift I have ever had to do.
1 week later I went back to accy vic. When I saw the nurse she asked if I had a xray on it last time.......... I told her no. She looked at me and said " I think you should have done, I'm sorry the doctor you saw last week was a stand in doctor " ............ hmmm and??
this time they x-rayed it. Doctor came back and said " I can't see a break, I think you have sprained it. Nurse will put tuba grip on it, just rest it and it will ease. If it doesn't come back and I will have a look at X-ray again and refer you to physio.
and soooo another week on and It is getting worse not better. Every foot step I take feels like a very tight band around my ankle with a hell of a lot of pain that follows. If I walk for 20 minutes it swells up like a balloon!!!
I went to the doctors last week and he gave me Oruvail gel and Naproxen pain killers, neither of them do anything. The only thing that does ease it a little is Solpadol, which i don't like taking because they knock me out for hours, but I will do anything to stop the pain.
Ginger keeps telling me he is taking me back tomorrow, but I don't want to go back there. I'm not one for hospitals and doctors and it makes it worse when they give you that " why have you come here " look
they obviously can't or won't do anything for me.
So if you know of anything that might help please let me know........other than that, I might have to amputate it
sorry for the rant x