Ankle Injury--Would like some Fibula Advice!! (school, taxes, legal)

[shaycee7]

Did one of those silly things misstepping on a small carpet rolled so it was about an inch off the floor. Stepped wrong and rolled my foot bad 8 weeks ago.

Didn't go to the doctor as I felt nothing broken. Did all the correct things, elevated, iced, stayed in bed, after a few days made sure I rotated it back and forth for the motion etc.

I babied it for a month really staying off of it -- used crutches first week.

When I started walking on it the outer side Fibula hurt and still does. Now I feel the bone and it feels like a big lump on it whereas the right side unhurt ankle is smooth in this area. (It's just above that round bone on the outside of your ankle).

It doesn't hurt so much that I can't stand it or take any pain killer. It just feels like something's out of whack and it's a pinching kind of pain when I walk or move it. Obviously I can't stand on my left foot and raise myself with the one foot---get an inch off the floor.

Now I'm concerned that the bone fractured or something and I've left it out of kilter for 2 months. Can't see the dr until 9/16. Anyone care to comment on what I've done or why it's so enlarged?

[AADAD]

ER/Urgent Care and xray.

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Try the Health and Wellness forum.

[CALI_PINA]

A trip to the ER and an x-ray will confirm whether or not you broke a bone. 0n 11/11/15, I tripped over a doggie gate in my kitchen and it turned out that I broke my left fibula about an inch above my ankle. It was a non-displaced break which means the bones were sitting aligned still--didn't require surgery.

I was put in a fiberglass splint which drove me nuts. Day 12, I went back to the ER and begged the doc to take it off and replace it with my own plastic stirrup splint until I see ORTHO on 11/30/15. He did with me promising that I WOULD NOT TRY TO WALK ON IT.

I purchased an aircast walking boot to bring to my ORTHO because I was determined to NOT get a cast. The doc had me hang my foot sideways to check if the tendons on the inside of my ankle were holding up--which they were! My doc suggested a CAST for 3 weeks, seeng as it's normally 6-8 weeks in a cast for a bone break. Since I survived almost 3 weeks already with no cast, I don't see why I couldn't continue with my stirrup splint. Since I don't work and my hubby is retired, the doc agreed and I'm supposed to see him in 3 weeks--end of December, at which time, he will probably give me the okay to start trying to bear weight on my left foot and start using my aircast walking boot with crutches.

This is the first bone break ever in all of my 52 years... and it can be scary and depressing. Thank God for my husband who takes wonderful care of me and who makes sure my mind is always busy! Our Scrabble board is getting a good workout these days! Just know that with each day, YOU ARE GETTING BETTER!!... and those pains firing around your ankle and foot are part of the healing process.

I wish you luck with your recovery!

[thepinksquid]

Originally Posted by CALI_PINA

A trip to the ER and an x-ray will confirm whether or not you broke a bone. 0n 11/11/15, I tripped over a doggie gate in my kitchen and it turned out that I broke my left fibula about an inch above my ankle. It was a non-displaced break which means the bones were sitting aligned still--didn't require surgery.

I was put in a fiberglass splint which drove me nuts. Day 12, I went back to the ER and begged the doc to take it off and replace it with my own plastic stirrup splint until I see ORTHO on 11/30/15. He did with me promising that I WOULD NOT TRY TO WALK ON IT.

I purchased an aircast walking boot to bring to my ORTHO because I was determined to NOT get a cast. The doc had me hang my foot sideways to check if the tendons on the inside of my ankle were holding up--which they were! My doc suggested a CAST for 3 weeks, seeng as it's normally 6-8 weeks in a cast for a bone break. Since I survived almost 3 weeks already with no cast, I don't see why I couldn't continue with my stirrup splint. Since I don't work and my hubby is retired, the doc agreed and I'm supposed to see him in 3 weeks--end of December, at which time, he will probably give me the okay to start trying to bear weight on my left foot and start using my aircast walking boot with crutches.

This is the first bone break ever in all of my 52 years... and it can be scary and depressing. Thank God for my husband who takes wonderful care of me and who makes sure my mind is always busy! Our Scrabble board is getting a good workout these days! Just know that with each day, YOU ARE GETTING BETTER!!... and those pains firing around your ankle and foot are part of the healing process.

I wish you luck with your recovery!

This thread is 4 years old. I would hope the OP is better now.

[CNYC]

Originally Posted by shaycee7

after a few days made sure I rotated it back and forth for the motion etc.

Probably not the best idea. If anything stabilizing it in a brace or wrap of some sort would have been a better idea. The wrap would have also kept it from swelling as bad. Did you take aspirin as well ?

Seeing a doctor in this country can be worse than being injured but maybe you can go into an ER and do what people with no money or legal status do. After all you are paying for it with taxes.

Good Luck.

[elchevere]

Go see a medical professional and get an x-ray...I know it seems like most of us on this forum graduated from Johns Hopkins Med School with honors, but the rest of the Ortho surgeons and I on this board didn't.

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Zombie thread.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Funeral was last year.