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Elbow swelling
Elbow swelling is a common symptom, caused by trauma (like fracture), infection or bursitis.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 22-year old male asked:
Elbow swelling 10 days after fall scab already went away is it a bursitis or staph i workout daily?
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A 29-year old asked:
My elbow keeps swelling up then it goes down then comes back why is that ?
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A 39-year old male asked:
L'm a 39 yr old male that has mild to servere pain in the elbow no swelling a gets worse as day goes on. Even find it hard to pick a glass of water up?
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A male asked:
My ankle, knee, and elbow is swelling at the joints. The pain is excruciating. What could this be?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Dx with bursitis in my right elbow, the swelling hasn't gone down and the ortho says I have a hematoma from the trauma. Any advice for healing?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Twisted arm doing backhandspring, popped, fingers tingle, hard to close them, sharp elbow pain behind & on top of elbow, no swelling or bruising..?
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A 52-year old female asked:
A cord like swelling on both sides of crease in left elbow. Also a swelling not encapselated just above crease in the center. Not seen w US. Not lymph?
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A 62-year old female asked:
Fell 3 days ago, landed on r arm right under the elbow. Continues with swelling, lots of bruising, some pain, no issues with rom. Should i x-ray?
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A 20-year old male asked:
I had a venipuncture on 3/11/16 on my right arm. I have some forearm pain around the area and elbow and some swelling and tightness. Is this normal?
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A 29-year old female asked:
My forearm aches i believe like tendonitis and my elbow down is swelling and my hand even feels a bit numb. Is that normal?
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A 40-year old female asked:
What can cause acute inner elbow lymph node swelling golf ball size bilateral. Passed kidney stone 2 days prior.see dr 2morrow. Took flomax (tamsulosin) for stone
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A 36-year old male asked about a 40-year old male:
Very faint .5cm thick yellow line on skin from wrist up inner forearm to elbow crook.no swelling. present 1 week.decreasing dull muscle pain. concern?
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A female asked:
I got bite 4 days ago on my elbow and it now swelling around it and is painful what it?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Pain above elbow. No redness or swelling. No weakness or pain when grasping objects. Painful to the touch. What do I have and how can I treat this?
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A 63-year old female asked:
Will clindamycin reduce swelling of elbow bursitis without having the fluid drained?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Monday I did a 30min arm workout tues&wed I had soreness & swelling at elbow. Thurs soreness was gone but here it is sat & It's tingling what is wrong?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Had elbow dislocation(no frc),closed reduced by surgeon 80 days back.Elbow can be straightened 95% as before but small swelling on elbow still notgone?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Largest dose of ibuprofen one can take for severe swelling on elbow from a bad fall with large angry spreading bruise? 600 or 800mg?
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A 24-year old female asked about a male:
Son fell yesterday grazed elbow there is no swelling or bruising he isn't complaining of pain but is holding arm against body and won't use it..xray??
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A 21-year old female asked:
After having sex on the 2nd week of the pill, i took Plan B one step. Days after, i woke up with severe knee, elbow pain and finger swelling! why?!
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A 38-year old female asked:
Bone pain center of Lt hand, worse w/ grasping/pressing with fingers. Lt arm pain radiates from inside elbow. No trauma or swelling, Rt handed. Cause?
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A 40-year old female asked about a 42-year old male:
I've been taking atorvastatin for a few months now and I'm now having episodes of my feet and just below my elbow getting itchy then swelling and warm. Recently my lip and cheek got swollen. Could this be a side effect?
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A 34-year old asked:
What can cause swelling on the elbow (not bursitis)?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Yesterday morning I did a 30 minute arm workout, I woke up early this morning with pain and swelling at the elbow? What is going on?
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A male asked:
Been bittern by something this afternoon, two clear bite marks. Just by elbow on the inside. Is swelling up and feels hard to the touch?
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A 28-year old asked:
Recently I started to work out and now I got a swelling in the elbow, what should I do?
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A member asked:
What to do about flud in the elbow it dosent hurt but the swelling is getting quite large?
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A 33-year old asked:
What makes swelling come in a later stage in tennis elbow?
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A 46-year old asked:
I think i fractured my elbow. How long should it take swelling on my forearm to go down?
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A 26-year old male asked:
I tripped on stairs 3 days ago and banged arm (elbow can't move it completely the swelling is slowly going down but having shooting pains is it a ok
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