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Dent In The Leg, Pain Where Bruised Due To Trauma. What Does This Mean?

I fell down the stairs almost four months ago and received a deep bone bruise to the shin. The doctor told me it would bruise for a long time, and although it, annoyingly, is still pretty darkly bruised and aches every now and then, I understood that. However, in the past few days I have noticed that my leg now has noticable dent where the bruise is accompanied with some additional pain I have not really felt in the past month. What does this mean?
posted on Sun, 8 Jul 2012
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Dear friend, welcome to HCM.
can you walk painless? is there a weeping wound?

if there is significant pain, rule out fracture. bruise would not saty this long -4 months.
pl. gety evaluated by an Xray and visit an ortho doc.
keep me posted and get well soon.
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Dent In The Leg, Pain Where Bruised Due To Trauma. What Does This Mean?

Dear friend, welcome to HCM. can you walk painless? is there a weeping wound? if there is significant pain, rule out fracture. bruise would not saty this long -4 months. pl. gety evaluated by an Xray and visit an ortho doc. keep me posted and get well soon.