I was shopping for groceries 3 weeks ago and while I was standing still, my ankle rolled. I have hypermobile joint syndrome so I'm used to spraining things easily. I kept shopping, but came home and iced my ankle. I iced and elevated it like I was supposed to, and kept off of it. It was "okay" for a week and a half, but then it was horrible. I could barely walk at times, and when I would walk very long, my toes would hurt. I started trying to ice it like I had initially, but the ice made the pain excruciating. If I try heat, the swelling gets worse and sometimes it gets a bit numb. To make matters worse, while walking the dogs last night, my ankle twisted again (same one) when I stepped in the "moat" my neighbors have. (They like to edge their yards and have a space about 4 inches deep and 3 inches wide between their yard and the sidewalk.) The new sprain responds to ice the same way that the older one has been responding. I nearly faint from the pain while walking, but I can still walk, so my family doctor is convinced its just a sprain and not a break. My foot hurts in between my toes and ankle. (I'm never convinced of that adage, since I every time I've broken my other foot, I've walked for months on it.)