Hey Everyone! My name is Marsha and I missed a step coming out of a camper 4 years ago and suffered dislocated ankle/broke leg. I have had 4 surgeries on my ankle. This fourth being a complete fusion. I was in a splint type cast for 4 weeks and now just yesterday went into a hard cast for 4 weeks after which it will be removed and xrays will be done to see at that point what my next step will be. Arthritis had eaten up my entire joint...I walked with a severe limp and God Awful pain. I can tell the pain in the very center is gone and I know that I have plates and screws now along the sides but I still feel as if I can feel the same ole (side under the ankle and around the heel) type pain. I was wondering if any of you could tell me how your first time walking was after the fusion? Do you completely go thru therapy to learn basic walking again? I just want to put one foot in front of the other and walk STRAIGHT once again! I walked with my foot out to the side for years. (shouldn't really say walked b/c it was totally excrusiating and hideous looking)...I continued to work and hope to return to my job in August. I was just looking for any advice, input, etc. that you might like to share. I'm also experiencing a tremendous amount of anxiety and sleep issues. Perhaps I'll try a mild sleeping pill. I'm not on anything for pain. I took that for only a few days post op. It makes me to "Paranoid". Anyways help me out people. I hate this cast so bad....I just want to get into my walking boot!
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Hey Everyone! My name is Marsha and I missed a step coming out of a camper 4 years ago and suffered dislocated ankle/broke leg. I have had 4 surgeries on my ankle. This fourth being a complete fusion. I was in a splint type cast for 4 weeks and now just yesterday went into a hard cast for 4 weeks after which it will be removed and xrays will be done to see at that point what my next step will be. Arthritis had eaten up my entire joint...I walked with a severe limp and God Awful pain. I can tell the pain in the very center is gone and I know that I have plates and screws now along the sides but I still feel as if I can feel the same ole (side under the ankle and around the heel) type pain. I was wondering if any of you could tell me how your first time walking was after the fusion? Do you completely go thru therapy to learn basic walking again? I just want to put one foot in front of the other and walk STRAIGHT once again! I walked with my foot out to the side for years. (shouldn't really say walked b/c it was totally excrusiating and hideous looking)...I continued to work and hope to return to my job in August. I was just looking for any advice, input, etc. that you might like to share. I'm also experiencing a tremendous amount of anxiety and sleep issues. Perhaps I'll try a mild sleeping pill. I'm not on anything for pain. I took that for only a few days post op. It makes me to "Paranoid". Anyways help me out people. I hate this cast so bad....I just want to get into my walking boot!
May 15, 2015 - 12:41pmThis Comment
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