To not know where to turn for help with this?

You say you can't get help anywhere, but you were offered help - a call from a nurse. It's you who refused it.
You won't call in sick to rest it.
You won't go back to A&E.

Nobody can help you if you refuse all the available options.

Just give them the facts. Don't worry about what anyone thinks of the nurse you saw.

Please take someone with you if you can.

I remember your original thread.

You were being martyr then. And you’re being a martyr now.

You either:

A) Go back to A&E, go to a different hospital if you have to, and tell them about your increasing pain. Tell them you will not be leaving without adequate support and a boot. FWIW, when I was a teenager I fractured my fibula bone. The first X ray didn’t show anything. So I continued to walk and weight bear until it got too painful. Parents took me back to hospital for another X ray and a second opinion- presto the Dr could see a fracture.

B) Get a grip. Order some crutches off Amazon Prime and get taxis to your desk job. Do not put weight on your foot and let it heal properly.

FFS, they cannot discipline you for having a broken ankle. If they try, put in an immediate grievance and get your union involved.

And please also phone minor injuries tomorrow or get yourself into A&E, preferably at a different time of day from last time so you see a different doctor.

Don't even think about NOT going to A&E. Go to A&E, say you can't put weight on this foot anymore. They will sort it out, even if you have to wait several hours. Just go!

Go to A&E now while you're in too much pain to sleep. You won't have to miss work either if you just go and get it checked now.

Is the swelling from the injury itself or is it possibly it’s infected. If it’s the latter it will be hot and you may need antibiotics. Otherwise, I think you just have to be patient. I was bitten by a horse fly 10 days ago and I still have a 4 inch diameter bruise. The body does take time to heal.

I didn’t see your other thread but i’m guessing you’re young. You certainly lack confidence. Can you see it this way: whatever advice you were given, your injury is getting worse not better. If you continue as you are, there seems to me to be a real risk that you will do worse harm to your body that will take longer to heal, may cost the NHS more to treat and might result in longer sick leave. That nurse was wrong to make you feel you can’t return. You need to be looked at again ASAP. The advice needs to be updated to reflect the current situation.

Get a thermometer and take your temperature properly. Trying to guess won’t work.

OP, I have done my ankle in and it looked like yours and it took many weeks to feel normal again.
These were ligament tears and sprains.
I really think you need to be seen again.
You poor thing.

I'm sorry but that's rubbish. If you got run over tomorrow, there team would manage. You will end up taking longer off work, or maybe even unable to ever return, if you damage your ankle further.
I too have experience of a diagnosis of a sprained ankle, which, when the xray was reviewed by a competent practitioner, was actually broken.
Go back to a&e tomorrow.

I’d go to back to A and E and say I feel faint with pain , don’t play it down. That you’re worried about infection or something ( have you taken your temperature ?) Maybe take someone with you to advocate It’s disgraceful that you’ve been left like this.

If you are the same youngish poster who tripped on your way to work last week, and then out of some misplaced sense of presenteeism hobbled in to work for the rest of the week --- THIS is why everyone told you to take the week off and rest!!!! And now, when helpful PP are telling you that you shouldn't be putting weight unnecessarily on the foot, you're saying, no, that's fine because no doctor or medical person told you that you couldn't just act like everything is sort of normal. I'm sorry, but you aren't being kind to your body and if you don't go back for something like a boot or cast, then you're most likely going to end up with an arthritic ankle that's going to give you grief as you age. And no matter what you think, you absolutely ARE dispensible, even if you're a brain surgeon (which it didn't sound like that's your role). So if you're advised to take it easy, please take time off work (it doesn't matter that you only just returned from your annual leave either). Your "concern" about getting a "flag on your medical records" is absurd and a rather stupid reason to not seek out help.

You’re just acting like a martyr now. On the one hand you’re saying it’s not serious enough to ring in sick, and on the other hand how you’re infected and desperate.

Are you saying people will die if you don’t go to work?

What answers do you want op? EVERYONE is saying go be reseen, rest it. You just keep saying I can't, I won't, they were dismissive. So what else can anyone say?

Repeat, go back to A & E.

You have 2 choices:
• put up with it
• go back to A&E for the reasons you describe
I don’t see a middle road

Go back to A & E. Something isn’t right here, you need to be seen. (Nurse)

Since my DD sustained a bone injury which worsened with time and required a moon boot for 3 months, I'd always try to insist on a scan with something that's not healing as planned.
They are visible on scans.

It is not typical to give a cast or boot for an avulsion fracture and she has crutches at home. A&E have advised per NHS guidance rules for the pain and bruising.

@ihowlforyou i really do sympathise but if calling in sick isn’t an option and there is no appropriate further treatment, I really don’t know what you can do except minimise putting weight on it and eating painkillers. It’ll just take time. Shit, I know.

What a nightmare. Honestly I think the responses indicate almost no one thinks you’re being unreasonable to feel this way. It seems like you do need to revisit the GP or local assessment centre for minor injuries to ask for crutches at least and request an up to date assessment. It’s not worth risking long term damage and you can be assertive without seeming like a complainer given your symptoms have worsened. You’ll need to advocate for yourself here to get the treatment or support you need