Most likely injury to my foot. ?

Question

I'm trying to figure out what I did to my ankle/foot

I jumped in a lake yesterday and, not realizing how shallow it was, my right foot slammed into the bottom pretty hard. It might have turned sideways, I'm not sure.

It hurt, but after a few minutes I felt okay and could even still swim.

However, about 3 hours later, after swimming, boating, tubing, (all of which did not involve walking or using my foot too much) I went home then drove to walmart. I noticed It hurt using my right foot do drive (gas/brake).. I spent about an hour walking around walmart shopping, and the pain increased till I was limping very badly. In fact on the way home I had to do what I NEVER do: use my left foot to break, because it just hurt too much moving my right foot from the gas to the break and back.

By the time I got home, I could hardly walk, and any jostling of my foot hurt excruciatingly.

BTW.. the pain FELT like it was my ankle, but anyway...

so throughout the evening it seemed to get worse and worse. I really could hardly walk. I could not tolerate putting all my weight on my right foot while stepping up, etc. EVentually all I could do is step foreword with my left foot and kind of drag my right foot to meet it.

It's MUCH better this morning, but I really wonder what I did. Was it simply walking around Wal-mart for an hour pushing a heavy (and stubborn) cart that turned a minor injury into a excruciatingly painful one, until I got alot of rest? Does anyone know if it was likely a twisted ankle, sprained ankle, etc

Do you think, despite the fact that it is ALOT better today, that I should still have it checked out. (it was too late last night by the time it was so bad that I was convinced it needed to be checked out)

Is it just because I'm sitting all day that it doesn't hurt as much?

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You have done the right thing by resting it today I think you should seek a medical opinion though as you may have fractured it.

Answer 2

could be a deep bruiseing to the bone cause by the jaring.

depending on how hard you hit the bottom could be a fracture of the heal (very hard bone to break). also with the lake being cold probably "numbed" the true extent of the damage you did. which is why it dint "appear" to hurt till later on.

i would advise getting this looked at but i think its deep bruising and mayb muscle and ligament damage (which is worse than a break).  

put a support on it and ice but get it checked out to be sure

edit:- could still be a fracture i would get it x-rayed to be sure.