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So, any doctors in the house? What's a good treatment for frostbite? I was icing my ankle and didn't bother putting something between the ice pack and my ankle.
This is what it looks like two days later. It's surprisingly sore to the touch. Anything I can do to ensure it heals well and doesn't fall off and die or something? Everything I found on the web was related to losing fingers and toes while mountain climbing. Not exactly my situation. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Have you checked WebMD? It's usually my first stop for medical stuff.
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Hmm, interesting read. I'll have to check out WebMD in the future. This is kind of an odd case though as I tied an ice pack to my ankle for 8 hours. It pretty much froze for at least three of those.
I have no idea if it changed colors/turned white etc. since it would have had time to thaw underneath the ice pack as it eventually warmed up. (those 8 hour ice packs rock btw). Now it's just sore as hell and swollen up. Oh well, probably nothing. Figured we might have a doctor in the house somewhere though who'd seen this before. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Yeah, in truly frostbitten flesh, those white (and then black patches) don't go away. It's dead flesh. If it's still red, sore, and warm to the touch, you're fine.
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i did but that was....shit....8-9 years ago? i dont really remember iciing that long though. either way, 8 hours for an ankle? im not trying to call you out Alci, just simply saying/asking.
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Why didn't you just put a paper towel between the pack and your skin? It wouldn't effect the temperature and it would've kept your skin from becoming frost-bitten. I usually get that type of thing when I'm out in the snow around my ankles, it will go away in a day or two.
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It's a chronic problem with the ankle. The pain is severe. Wisdom teeth have nothing on this, and I had all four pulled at once, and they were impacted.
The ice wasn't cold enough to numb the ankle with something in between, it just feels cool, not cold. I wanted it to be numb. While that goal was achieved, apparently there were some side effects to that setup. Now I'm on some nerve deadening drug (nothing to do with the ice issue, results of some MRI crap). It has a nice side effect of making me extremely stupid. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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I shot the sherrif.
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I was up to 6,000mg of aspirin a day and it wasn't working any more. Tylenol and Advil did nothing.
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damn......im sure the organs are loving you for that one, haha
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6,000mg of aspirin a day?! I thought anything over like 3,000 was borderline dangerous for organs, especially your liver.
I thought fentanyl was the most effective painkiller? Either way dude, get addicted to percocet or something, I'd talk to my doctor about getting something for localized numbness, and I'd go soon while you still have freezer burn on your leg to help convince the amount of agony you were in and what you were willing to go through. If he doesn't help, steal a script book! Edit: Oh, by the way, ice works well to bring down swelling. Try 15 min on, 10 min off, 15 on, 10 min off though, not 8 hours on. |
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I did the same thing once. Pulled a hammy playing softball. Put those re-useable blue ice-packs on it, and every time it didn't feel cold anymore, I got a new one. After about 4 or 5 hours I stopped. Next morning, I woke up with a huge red, sore spot amazingly similar is size and shape to the ice packs. To make things worse, my mother in law gave me some of those "healing magnets" and I taped them on - about a few hours before the whole thing BLISTERED! It oozed for a few days, and it was such a pain to keep it wrapped, given the tapering shape of the upper leg, that I eventually went and bought some super-absorbant maxi-pads with the adhesive, and stuck them to the inside of my pants. I still haven't lived that one down yet with my family. Do you know where children get all of their energy? - They suck it right out of their parents! |
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Damn, that must hurt if you can keep ice on it for hours at a time. I feel for ya, man.
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