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Attempted to Reduce Nose Bone and It Worked Temporarily

I had a minor injury a couple of months ago, just a bit of pain. I noticed my nose got bigger and formed a bump. So a couple days ago I just about had it, so I took some ice cubes and began carving at the bone, the skin moved gradually and I was able to reduce the newer bump. It worked! It had to heal, with scab, but now 2 days later I notice everywhere I used the icecube the hard part (bone?) the bump is now larger all of a sudden! What happened and what on earth can I do to heal/prevent this?

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