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What Causes Ankle Pain After An Injury?

I fell down and rolled my ankle/foot. I got and it but a little bit so i thought was ok. About 3hours later my foot was in excruciating pain and my boyfriend w taking me urgent care. They did x-rays and said it was not broken, just badly sprained. I am just trying figure out why my pain was so delayed.
Tue, 25 Nov 2014
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After going through your query I concluded that you got injury to your ankle. It was x rayed. It shows no fracture but badly sprained. You wants to know why pain was so delayed. Immediately after injury there pain does not occur because our body releases endorphins in response to injury. This endorphins are strong analgesics. After sometimes endorphin level in blood decreases leading to pain. Treatment of severe sprain is splintage to joint to relieve pain. Analgesic such as ibuprofen are of help as it relieve pain and swelling. Vitamin B and C are helpful in recovery. You can discuss your doctor about it. Hope your query get answered. If you have any clarification then please don't hesitate to write to us. I will be happy to answer your queries. You can also write to me directly on below link:
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Wishing you good health. Take care.
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What Causes Ankle Pain After An Injury?

Hi Welcome to healhcaremagic After going through your query I concluded that you got injury to your ankle. It was x rayed. It shows no fracture but badly sprained. You wants to know why pain was so delayed. Immediately after injury there pain does not occur because our body releases endorphins in response to injury. This endorphins are strong analgesics. After sometimes endorphin level in blood decreases leading to pain. Treatment of severe sprain is splintage to joint to relieve pain. Analgesic such as ibuprofen are of help as it relieve pain and swelling. Vitamin B and C are helpful in recovery. You can discuss your doctor about it. Hope your query get answered. If you have any clarification then please don t hesitate to write to us. I will be happy to answer your queries. You can also write to me directly on below link: https://www.bit.ly/askdrsudhirortho Wishing you good health. Take care.