I have a nurse friend. When it happened to me she told me to soak in some epson salt and hot water for about 30 minutes and take a couple of bayer asp. so it would thin the blood enough for the swelling to go down. It worked and took about 24 hours to go away completely.
damn i just posted another while just trying to reply, oh well. the funny thing is that everyone is always saying it is there friend when it is really them.