Booking a private scan for my ankle after a sprain - is it extravagant?

[itwasnevermine]

I fell on Monday and sprained my ankle.

It was immediately painful and started to swell, and has done nothing but swell since. 4 days on it's still incredibly painful, swollen and bruised.

I just don't feel reassured by the care I received at the hospital.

I was seen in triage, described what happened and was sent for an xray.

Xray done and waited for 4 hours to be seen by the 'advanced healthcare practitioner'.

I saw her and she spent most of the 5 minutes I was in there discussing another medication I'm on because she's not had a patient on that. Then we discussed my job.

She didn't look at or examine my ankle. She got the xray up, said it looked fine and gave me crutches. She told me to be on them for two weeks as it was "a bad sprain" based on how swollen it was and that was that.

There was no examination of my foot done at any time, or even a proper look taken at it.

I've had issues with this ankle in the past and based on how painful it is and how swollen it is (still!) I'm just concerned something worse has happened and there's no way of finding out without paying to go private. I don’t know if this type of thing even exists

4 days! You expect torn ligament damage to resolve in 4 days.
RICE!!

Ah yes! I was wondering.
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OP I thought that losing a day's pay was creating financial hardship? Why would you want to pay for an examination privately?
Your two posts together make you come across as grabby and whiny.

No wonder the younger generation gets a bad rep in some places. It's things like this.

@StMarieforme because one days pay v potentially 2+ weeks because of an ongoing issue are two very different things?

All I asked is could I complain - not do I have to take them to court. You'd be feeling the same way.

This is my issue, considering image interpretation is at least a reporting radiographer with post grad qualifications I don’t believe a nursing AP is sufficiently skilled to interpret anything beyond an obvious break. Absolutely not dismissing nursing practitioners, they are highly skilled in their own profession, but looking at X-rays isn’t theirs.

I wish you well OP, it’s bloody miserable.

Unless you’re actively working on the recovery, it’s unlikely to make much progress and will continue to hurt a lot.

Continuing normal life while on crutches won’t help it heal.

And if they didn’t tell you specifically what elevating means then they may have over estimated your awareness of the subject.

Elevate means elevate it above your body. Not just marginally higher than it would usually be.

in practical terms that will mean lying on the sofa with your foot up on the back of it, or lying in bed with it up on cushions.

If you’re not able to take time off to support the initial recovery phase then at least do it for a lot of the time you’re not at work.