To ask if you'd go to hospital and get yourself checked out?

I seem to remember when I broke my hip that if you can take less than 3 steps it’s a hospital/ambulance job. I had no bruising and felt fine in myself but fainted the minute I put any weight on it. Please don’t worry about going if you need to! Although I’d really consider whether you can drive or not…

OP, get a taxi to the bloody hospital and get it checked out. You may very well have broken it

I really dont understand the mentality of people on here who seem to think that unless there is a bone sticking out, you shouldn't be in A&E

My friend fell off a pavement (we'd had a few!) and walked (well limped) home in her boots.

Took them off and went to sleep.

Next day it was black and a balloon - and we'll and truly broken.

You would not be being a baby to get it checked at MIU or a and e if you don't have one.

Then go..

The pain plus the bruising is a sign of a fracture I think! (Based on my limited experience of broken toes and things in the family)

You should have gone to A&E I think. It's not too late even now.

I recently broke my ankle and the pain in bed was sooo bad!!
Although if it isn't a stable fracture you shouldn't be weight bearing at all!

Can you get a taxi to the hospital?

@Justlurking10 I never knew that! Useful to know as I roll my ankles a lot

It’s not recommended to take Ibuprofen within 48 hours of injury as swelling starts the healing process and it’s the body’s natural defence mechanism so by taking an anti inflammatory your actually prolonging it x

Except you'd be a risk.

I also didn't go to hospital but had clue I had broken anything as the pain was very short lived. I still get pain now. Get to the hospital.

@itwasnevermine I know , I fell crossing the road at work once and I just stumbled and kept stumbling and just couldn't find my footing and ended up sprawled on the floor partly in a bush. Two men who worked at my office but I didn't know saw and rushed over to help me up which was kind but so embarrassing 🤣 I had a nasty cut knee and hands for days, felt so shaken !! X

@itwasnevermine definitely go if you can and early doors before the morning rush if you can. I could hardly talk when I dislocated my shoulder and was sick with pain so you may have broken it but without x ray eyes you won't know

@WiddlinDiddlin but that's for the NHS to decide. She's feeling sick, on her own, cant put weight on.

She can have her phone next to her. Every area is different.

I was sent to an and e with a child who had fallen in school. Child was fine but process had been started, we were not allowed to leave. School had started call.

Lots of people there.
I need a re prescription
I've been sick
I work day hours and can't get time off for GP
Positive pregnancy test at four weeks and wanted a reassurance scan

Lots of things block the system but a person alone in pain does not in my view deserve to be ignored.

If OPs hospital is like ours it's like the first stop , they assess in triage and anything like a suspected break/fracture etc they streamline the process and you get sent to the minor injuries department WITHIN the hospital. I've been numerous times, recently with my daughter for a broken finger and was in and out within an hour. You definitely do need to go to a&e for a suspected break/fracture because it could be fractured or broke not be clean, could be an issue where you would need surgery or resetting of the bone so yes do go as soon as you are able. Hope it's not too bad OP I've fallen a few years ago and the shock alone as an adult falling is awful, then the pain and bruises all over😭 xx

If you've got tingling in your toes then that's not great.

Whilst X-ray will likely be open now the cast department won't so you will just be sent home tonight with instructions to RICE.

Tuesday is meant to be the best day to go to A&E as it's the least busy. You won't be wasting anyone's time as you'll be triaged and seen at an appropriate time so as long as you are prepared for the long haul and know you'll be sat there for a good few hours it's fine. Pack a book, charge devices tonight / headphones, water and snacks then you'll be as comfortable as possible.

Our A&E now triaged at the door for major A&E and minor ones that need to be seen but can wait IE not breathing or bleeding issues.

Your GP, if you ever got through to one would send you there anyway.

I did this, thinking I had a sprain. Thinking don’t need A&E for a sprain, I’d just be wasting their time.
3 weeks later the pain was unbearable. Went to A&E, yes, it’d been broken all along. Not my ankle as such but the non weight bearing bone in the lower leg. Felt a right idiot. Staff were gobsmacked I’d been walking ( hobbling) for 3 weeks on it.
So I don’t think it’s OTT to get it Xrayed.

Don't worry about going to A&E. Accidents like yours are triaged to a nurse who will assess if you need an X-ray and then review the results. You won't be in the same queue as an emergency.

God I'd take you. Just to get you there.

That would be a bit fat waste of time, such an injury will be lowest priority and keep getting bumped down the list any time anything higher priority comes in, resulting in the OP waiting up all night for something unlikely to happen, when she could be attempting some sleep!

A broken bone/severe sprain most certainly needs a medical opinion! And unless it is xrayed no one know if it's broken or not.

@itwasnevermine your mum can’t take you now? Don’t say you don’t want to bother her. This is urgent.

@itwasnevermine in that case call nhs 24. They will assess over phone and if deemed necessary send an ambulance to get you or agree to wait to morning. Speak to those in the nhs.