Fractured Tibia and Fibula - Finally weight bearing...how should it feel? (fracture, x-ray)

[manito2000]

I broke my tibia and fibula on my right leg six weeks ago.

I had surgery the next day (titanium rod in my tibia and plate on my fibula).

I was given an airboot two weeks ago. Yesterday, my OS says I can start walking again. She says I can put full weight on my leg. OS says my goal should be to be off my crutches in the next 10 days.

Questions?

1. How should it feel? Everytime I step...I have aches/pains. Intersetingly the pain is on the sole of my foot or heel...not ankle or shin pain.
2. Any suggestions as to what I can do to feel more comfortable?
3. Would appeciate any one else's experiences

Abraham

[annabanana123]

I had a a tibial osteotomy in May and was on crutches for about two months. When I started walking again It felt really weird - almost like I had jello leg and I definitely didn’t trust it fully. I went to the pool and walked in the water - where it was between waist and chest deep - to retrain my leg at the suggestion of my PT and ortho. That really helped I think but so does time. Ease into it. I started just walking at home, then walking at home and from my desk to the bathroom and back at work, etc.

I’m now walking 4-6 miles when my pain allows (and the pain is not from the fracture - but from nerve damage that I developed as a result of surgery). It will get better just allow yourself the grace to ease into it. Hang in there, it will get better!!

[Slahctin05]

@annabanana123
How long before you were able to walk period without the assistance of a crutch.

How long before your osteotomy healed on X-ray?

[Slahctin05]

I had same surgery: tibial osteotomy