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Yesterday I was putting up Christmas lights on the roof. When I was done, I jumped off the roof (like any sane person would do), and hurt my left ankle in the fall.

The ankle is barely swollen at all, and there are no enormous bones sticking out of it, but it still hurts like a bitch! So I can't decide if it's just sprained or fractured. I have excellent health insurance, but I hate going to the doctor. Which should I do?

if you have health insurance then use it

at the very least you can make the pain go away

yes, the doctor seems like a good choice, although 2 summers ago some buddies and i went to the shore for the night and we got all drunk and i ended up jumping into a pool from the 3rd floor of the motel we were staying at, needless to say i made the jump and landed in the pool but smashed the heel of my foot on the bottom of the pool and it hurt like hell the next day, now maybe it was the excessive alcohol in my blood stream, but i never went to the doctor and all was well within 2 weeks.


P.S. plz send some of those aforementioned pain pills my way, thanks

how can you have christmas lights without snow, just seems wrong

No, I never goto the doctor even when I fell off my bike years ago (I was about 14) Scraped my head on the road for about 10 yards, the handlebars fell on my head aswell.
Self diagnosed concussion and My headache was gone in a week
Don't be a pussy, take the pain, drugs are shit.

Yeah C O ankle pain sucks

I remember once I was running from these bull dike biker chicks{dikes on bikes MC}My friends and i dinned and dashed at this Dennys resturant. It so happend that are waitress sister was a dike on bikes chick.They saw us escaping from there booth, and started for us There was ten or so of them,I jumped a wall sprained my ankle but didn`t make a sound Knowing the big fat ugly dike chicks would have my dick on a spit My friends got away and everything was good.

No Doc needed,when your young shit heals fast I was 16 at the time

I can't imagine having Christmas lights with snow.

I don't care about the pain... my tolerance is pretty high. I don't want the bone to fuse back together improperly if it's fractured. Anyway, it hurts much less now and I can move it a lot better. I'll wait another day and then see.

Captain_Obvious wrote: I'll wait another day and then see.

I voted "No" simply because the poll lacks the "wait and see" option. It's what I would do if the pain was bearable.

However, the safe thing to do would be to see a doctor, but I hate going to the office as well

men...go to the doctor before the bone sets weird

Go to the doctor. When I got hit by a car last November, I got some painkillers for my back, and vikaden for my ankle. (It was only a sprain BTW, but I couldn't walk for 2 months so meh).

Well i did go back to the resturant,payed the tab and tipped the waitress and said i was sorry


CO piece of mind is good,so go to the DOC

I would suggest going to the doctor. You can fracture your ankle and still be able to walk on it just fine. When I was younger I ended up fracturing mine and my parents just figured it was a sprain. It ended up healing incorrectly and so now I have problems with it. Better safe than sorry.

whats the worst that can happen? you get your ankle fixed and if you complain about the pain enough you can pop pills for a month. dont pop pills? sell them and buy a ladder so next time you dont have to jump off the roof

Well my ankle feels great now. Occasionally it hurts if I bend it a too far, but I can move it completely.

Another fine example of my stupidity... on Saturday I played broomball on the ice, which is pretty demanding for ankles considering all the sliding and balancing. I never had any ankle problems, but my thumb did get nicely bashed in from some idiot who was high-sticking. I'm a lucky man. I can live with a busted ankle and a busted thumb, but I dont know what I'd do if one of my vital UT fingers was messed up.

Captain_Obvious wrote:Well my ankle feels great now. Occasionally it hurts if I bend it a too far, but I can move it completely.

I can live with a busted ankle and a busted thumb, but I dont know what I'd do if one of my vital UT fingers was messed up.

I'm glad to hear that your ankle is OK, CO

However, my thumb is so important to UT! It changes my weapons, it crouches, and it says, "Roger that."

It's indispensable

(Unless it's your mouse thumb. What a useless hand appendage that is! jk jk thumbs are the best.)

Yeah it's my mouse (right) thumb. The only it can really press is a button that's not assigned to anything in UT, but pops up this annoying window that causes UT to minimize every time I accidentally hit it.

All my left thumb does is make me jump.