Posting for traffic but also to see if I'd be unreasonable to pester for one.
About 6 months ago, was getting out of my car and suddenly unable to put weight on foot. Ankle suddenly ballooned in size. No trauma to the foot other than the day before I'd sat my comparatively heavy self on it, bent flat behind me in a kneeling position.
Got appointment with doctor as unable to drive or walk properly. Paramedic, who appointment was with said he'd never seen anything like it (swollen massively on both sides of ankle) and to just put it up and ice it. He couldn't refer me for xray as no trauma so didn't tick the boxes for a break.
Swelling goes down, foot returns to normal after a couple of days.
Over the course of the next few weeks, it happens again about 3 times. Each time, I'm not doing anything odd, just getting up from sitting down, or walking across a room. Sensation like a clicking shift and suddenly balloons and I can't put it down.
Doc again, says no idea and refers me to physio.
Physio appointment rolls around and of course, at the time it is scheduled, ankle is perfectly bloody fine. Physio says no idea what it was/is.
I go for two month totally fine, but then wear very very slight heel (about 1 1/2 inch) and feel a slight movement in ankle. Day later at work, click-shift and it happens again, worse than any of the other times. Can't put it down or flex foot. Swollen on both sides very much, hurts mostly under ankle bone on outside of foot. Trying to work from home but keep being reduced to nausea and cold sweats every time I have to get up and do something.
Now the drip-feed. Left til last as may be a total red herring. My mum had something identical several years ago. She'd be in the middle of a dog walk and suddenly, something would go out of place and she'd be unable to walk. She'd wait it out in the field and after a while it would be okay. She didn't have the same major swelling. It turned out, years later, getting an xray due to lost mobility in that ankle, that it had indeed been a fracture that I suppose had slipped in and out of position. The bone had later fused in a weird way as untreated, hence loss of mobility. She is convinced I have the same thing. But this may be nonsense.
Thanks if you got this far! So, would IBU to beg for an xray on Monday?