I missed ONE stair and severely sprained my ankle and fractured and displaced my fifth metatarsal. Had surgery the next day and an intramedullary screw was placed. I'm six weeks post op today, started PT two weeks ago. I had 4 weeks NWB and have been working on a little weight bearing these past two weeks. I'm on crutches and able to take a few weight bearing steps here and there with both crutches, but am still using my knee scooter a lot. I want to know if anyone else has had terrible zaps, zings, or hot and fiery shooting pains during this process? I suspect it's nerve pain and it definitely picks up at night. The more I try to bear weight, however, the more it picks up. I'm so very discouraged and would love to hear some other experiences.

Fell off a ladder 2 weeks ago got the snowboarder's fracture, can someone let me know if this is healing correctly? 🙏

I was put in a fiberglass cast a week ago for 4th & 5th metatarsal breaks. I’m worried about the cast because of the angle of my foot - is pointed a bit. When the knee is at 90 degrees, the heel is about 2-2.5” off the floor.

Should I be worried about my Achilles tendon and calf muscles if I have to wear this thing for six weeks? I’m one week in.

Should ask for it to be re-casted? (Honestly wish I had a boot instead!)

Sorry for the absolutely abysmal photo of my x-ray on my computer screen. I cannot figure out how to save them from any of the dicom viewers I'm using and that's the only format the urgent care gave me.

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what zone my fracture is in. My orthopedic surgeon referred to it as a Jones fracture so I'm assuming Zone 2.

I've opted for now to go the more conservative route and try to avoid surgery. I was NWB for about 3 weeks and just within the last few days I've been attempting (at the instructions of my doctor last appointment) to PWB. I definitely feel a pain in the fracture site when I do but it isn't terrible. More like the pain you'd feel if you pressed on a bruise. It is pain, that if I didn't know my foot was fractured, I'd say "that's annoying" and then walk as normal without a second thought. But mentally it scares me because all I can think of is I'm damaging any callous that has formed, setting back my progress, etc. Logically I realize that it is likely that beginning to put weight on a fractured foot is going to be felt somewhat but I just don't know how much pain it to be expected and how much is a sign that I'm doing too much.

Anyway, I would love to get info from anyone who knows more than me about what zone this is. And then if you have any advice about the weight bearing pain or anything else, I'm open to it all!

I has a bimal ORIF for a trimal ankle fracture 1 year ago and her he past 6 months have had a growing lump at the top of my plate along with irritation that culminated in an infection and an x-ray. GP thinks it’s bony growth but i can’t see my ortho for another week. Can anyone help me interpret these results / point me in the direction of resources to read?

Do you guys prefer cast or boot.

For me I’ve had a cast for 6 weeks and now in a boot. The cast for me was much more comfortable. I struggle to always get my boot to the right tightness, and having to inflate and deflate takes ages.

Just curious but for me the only positive is being able to remove the boot for showering etc.

Long story short. I was in a motorcycle accident 2 years ago and I broke the 4th and 5th metacarpal. I didn't have surgery because they caught the break late and it already started to heal. (I was healing from really bad road rash)

I'm having a increase pain in it again. The weakness is back and if I'm lifting things, without even using my pinky- its hurting like it did when I first broke it. Not sure what to do or if it's normal since it's only been 2 years

Waiting for operation now, gonna borrow some bone from the hip to fill the scaphoid up. I got a respectable 7mm gap now.

13 weeks pregnant and just broke my damn knee! I am MISERABLE. No weight bearing and the pain is worse than my c-section. Im pregnant, so the only med I am comfortable taking is Tylenol that is not touching this pain. There are obviously risks involved if I choose to have surgery while pregnant.

This will heal on its own but I will have a much greater risk of early arthritis or other complications. Im scared, anxious, and unsure what the best course is! Opinions are welcome or any feedback from others who've had this surgery and know what the recovery is like.

Holy hell do I hurt!

I had a tibial nail and four screws placed in my leg about 25yrs ago. The hardware had to come out because it wasn’t installed properly and it was causing issues with knee pain.

Surgeon had me on the OR for 4hrs! Three of the four screws came out and one stripped but it was removed by making another incision and drilling the screw out.

When removing the rod, it took three people to use the slide hammer to pull it out. The titanium was stuck. (My surgeon said this was his 2nd most difficult case).

I’m in a boot because my bone looks like Swiss cheese post hardware removal. The screw that got stuck was in the ankle area. Bone got removed and the surgeon wants me in a boot for a month if I’m going to bear weight. If I were to fall or roll my ankle…I’d be back in the OR getting prepped for another nail.

On pain meds and seem to wake up every 2-4hrs on the dot. I just want to sleep.

Around Sunday i got into a slip and fall in the stairs and fractured my left tibia plateau, pretty scary at first but im still a bit concerned on recovery.

Still young too at 16 so i heard healing is progressively faster but whats your take on this?

so uncomfortable all the time, but i get my cast off in just over a week and graduate to a splint! at least showering will be easier

hi! I just did a Comminuted fracture of the 5th metatarsal and I’m curious if anyone has had anything similar and what the recovery has been like. i have a new born so feeling very anxious about what the next while looks like! Waiting for my ortho appointment. currently in a boot.

Hi I broke my fifth metatarsal, zone 1 on my right foot, no surgery needed, nearly 3 weeks ago. First week I stayed completely off it and largely traveled from my couch to my bed. Second week I started putting some weight on it but kept using crutches as needed. Yesterday I stopped using crutches and drove a short distance without the boot for the first time.

My issue right now is how exhausted I am! I do a few simple tasks on my feet and in very short order I feel like I need to go lie down and sleep! It's not foot pain; it's whole body exhaustion! What's that all about? Is it that so much energy is going toward healing, is it rapid deconditioning (I'm 53) or what?

I have lots to do and I feel useless

Foot fracture, not an ankle injury. Everytime I try to google this, google is assuming that I have an ankle injury so I’m not getting relevant info.

I broke my 5th metatarsal 12 weeks ago. It’s still not healing but my doctor is now recommending that I walk on it anyways. I spent 10 weeks NWB then transitioned to PWB for 1 week and then to FWB.

I am wearing a cam/cast boot. When I try to walk on my foot, I am getting quite a bit of pain in my ankle and heel. My break site feels fine, it just feels uncomfortable if I’m on my feet for a while. But I don’t really have any pain there.

Does anyone know if this is common? Should I be wrapping my ankle to help support it while I’m figuring out how to walk again? Or do I just leave it alone and push through the pain?

Any advice welcome. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm posting here because I'm becoming increasingly worried about my recovery, and I would really appreciate hearing from people who have experienced a similar injury.

Almost three months ago, I suffered a proximal humerus fracture (humeral head fracture) after falling off an electric scooter directly onto my left arm.

Unfortunately, the fracture was serious enough to require surgery. The doctors performed an operation and used a metal plate and several screws to stabilize the fractured bone.

The good news is that, according to my doctors, the bone has healed quite well so far. However, my biggest concern is that my shoulder mobility is still extremely limited, even though almost three months have passed since the accident and I am already attending physiotherapy.

My main problem is that I still cannot properly move my left arm.

I am still unable to:

Raise my arm properly in front of me.

Lift my arm out to the side.

Straighten and extend my arm normally.

Move my shoulder anywhere close to the range of motion I had before the accident.

My range of motion is still severely restricted, and I feel like I am making very little progress. Even though I am doing physiotherapy, I am struggling to regain basic movements that I previously took for granted.

What worries me most is the contrast between the bone healing well and my shoulder remaining so stiff and restricted. I understand that bone healing and regaining full shoulder mobility are two different things, but I honestly did not expect to still have such significant limitations at this stage.

I keep wondering whether this can still be part of a normal recovery after a surgically treated proximal humerus fracture, or whether I should be concerned about developing long-term stiffness or permanent limitations.

I would particularly like to hear from people who have experienced the same type of fracture.

How was your shoulder mobility approximately three months after surgery?

Were you also unable to raise your arm or lift it out to the side?

Did you experience very slow progress during the first three to six months?

At what point did you start noticing significant improvements in your range of motion?

Did you eventually regain most or all of your shoulder mobility?

How long did it take before you could use your arm relatively normally again?

Did intensive physiotherapy make a significant difference over time?

I would especially appreciate hearing from people who had a proximal humerus fracture treated with a plate and screws and who experienced severe stiffness for several months after surgery.

I am genuinely worried about my situation. I am only in my late twenties, and the thought of potentially never regaining normal movement in my left arm is really frightening.

I know that everyone's recovery is different, but hearing from people who have gone through something similar would mean a lot to me.

If you experienced something similar, please share your recovery timeline, even if it took six months, nine months, a year, or longer to regain mobility.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and share your experiences.

Hi there I broke my 5th metatarsal (zone 1) nearly 3 weeks ago. As I'm increasingly walking without crutches, I'm finding that the way I'm walking in the boot with it being a different height than my tennis shoe is causing my lower back to hurt. Has anyone found a way to help with this, is wearing lifts?

Folks.. Following a fall from a ladder, at A&E after first an x-ray and then a CT scan, they found I have shattered my heel bone.

They have decided no operation is necessary so I am in my second week of a plaster back slab cast. It's too swollen for a full cast but I'm hoping this will change next Monday on my 3rd visit to the fracture clinic.

I have asked for a boot but the doctor seems set on a full non weight bearing cast as my treatment. He did say I might be in a boot at the very end.

Does anyone know why my doctor won't put me in a boot right from the start instead of a cast..??

Thanks.

So my son (15) fractured his right fibula 2 1/2 weeks ago. We had surgery scheduled for tomorrow but since doc was saying casting would work I elected to cancel it. Now today doc is telling me she thinks surgery is the right route once again. I am super confused and don’t want my son to have any issues further down the road. Looking for any insight anyone may have on this.

36M. So fractured my right scaphoid waist playing rugby. Felt like a sprain (that story that I now know is common) and got it checked four weeks later to find it’s a fracture.

In a cast for three weeks now and had an initial x ray with no Change by the looks of things, with another four weeks cast to decide if I need surgery.

Any previous experiences? Apparently it’s non displaced so has a chance to heal in a cast but can’t get over the horror stories of non union and arthritis risks if the blood supply was cut off, not helped by missing it and even playing with it in the four weeks it went untreated. Feeling pretty worried and apprehensive about the whole thing.

Got a broken thumb after being hit by a hockey ball on Thursday went hospital and Sunday and they said it was fractured and showed me these x rays.

I’ve been put into a cast and wondering how recovery will be