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Ouchie Bev. Why do they always have to do that!!! Grrrr Why don't they just know what it is when you point to it and explain without having to put you through the pain like that.
I'd try icing it Bev. An old fracture isn't going to suddenly alter the way it's healing by way of a plaster or anything else come to that. You could try putting a sports bandage over it, which are always much tighter than the tubigrips (I know this cos I have quite an arrary of these with my injuries!). Ice and a tight bandage will at least keep the pain to a minimum and once you've done that, it will eventually go away again....for a while, until you do something to annoy it again. Oh I have mountains of experience with this type of thing, especially ankles, knees and hips.
I've come to the conclusion that getting older is not desirable, and I know what my doctor is going to say to me, so I just don't bother going anymore. Did they EVER sort out your chest pains Bev??? All those tests, and there you are, no further forward. I sometimes wonder if they really care, we're just another tick in some box on some bit of paper, to prove they went through the motions, leaving us to suffer in silence.
Years ago, I jumped off a pile of hay bales from a great height (stoopid thing to do) and landed with my foot sideways in a wooden pallet
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The noise was horrendous and it wasn't the pallet breaking either, it was my foot
![Shocked](images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Everyone was gobsmacked, they laid me down on the ground and thought I'd broken my ankle/foot/leg even. However, within a few minutes I tried to walk and I could
![Shocked](images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Every now and again, if I put it "out" I suffer with it, and then I have to do the same thing again, to put it "back" and that's how it goes.
I wish you luck, but don't hold yer breath even if you get an x-ray, I very much doubt they've got a magic wand sadly.