Hit in mouth with shuttlecock and now my lip is so painful?

I was hit by a really fast smash at close proximity in my badminton match the other day. She got me right in the mouth after jump smashing me from about a metre away. It's been a few days, nothing's bleeding but the inside of my upper lip is really red and sore. it's actually grown more painful today and when i touch it i can feel something rolling around, like a small ball rolling around inside my lip. anyone know what it is?|||hello Lexia,


It seems you have a CONTUSION or a HEMATOMA. It is just a collection of blood that had seeped into the tissues due rupture of a tiny blood vessel by the blunt trauma.





The soft tissues with little solid support from a nearby bone or cartilage are especially more prone for contusions, and our facial tissue in particularly has a rich blood supply and is not anchored to underlying bones.





A contusion goes thru' a series of colour changes from red - brown - yellow - green - blue , etc. that may or may not be visible thru skin or mucous membrane of oral cavity.





The feeling of rolling around when palpated with hand means it is GETTING ORGANISED, that means the scavenger cells in your blood had rounded it up and started cleaning the debis of oozed out and clotted blood.





Since there was no bleeding, meaning the mucous membrane of mouth was intact, and microbes could not have colonised it to form an infection. (hematomas could get infected) Still you watch out for signs of elevated body temperature, malaise (vague feeling of dullness that cannot be attributed to physical exertion), constant dull throbbing pain (not the sharp pain that you get whie you touch it) would point towards an ABSCESS|||It is just swollen, I think. It will clear up in a few days.