Why would I have pain in my ankle only when weight bearing?
I don’t remember rolling my ankle but I may have as I was busily packing the car. Yesterday I developed a shooting lateral pain right below the lateral malleolus. The pain travels down towards my toes. I have this pain only when I walk normally. I can avoid the pain by walking on the outside of my foot. I can move my ankle in all directions when non weight bearing with no pain. I can stand on my heal and lift my foot up with a tiny bit of pain.
I had surgery 3 years ago to split the fascia around the tibialis anterior muscle on both legs and haven’t had any problems since. I’m not sure if this is related.
If this doesn’t clear up in a few days I’ll go and see my doctor. Anyone here have any idea what this may be? I’m concerned as the pain has been there for two days now with no abatement.
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Possibly a stress fracture.
Is it swollen?
I want to say possibly just simple inflammation from your busy work the other day.
It’s not swollen and not painful to the touch. I really hope this isn’t somehow related to my surgery. It would suck to exchange a running problem for a walking one.
Possibly a small fracture, I agree with @_Whitetigress. You also might have just stepped in a way that aggravated the area and it will go back in to place so to speak in a day or two. I get bad pain when I step down in my left toe second to pinky sometimes. I can have it happen 3 times a year, and then not happen at all for two years. It usually lasts 1–3 days when it happens, and certain height heels make it hurt more while it is happening. I do think I broke that toe at one point, I never xrayed it, but still, most of the time it feel perfectly fine with no pain, and then when it acts up the pain is quite bad if I step on it, no pain if I am not stepping on it.
Any post-surgery areas are always more vulnerable. Yours sounds serious since it involved messing with the fascia. It may well be the stress from the extra physical activity plus the unpleasant issue of the body getting older and thus more vulnerable to overuse
I would get to the doctor’s by day three if there is no improvement. Have you tried a few Advil?
Or rest, ice and elevation?
(What was the underlying need for the surgery?)
Well the fact that there is no swelling is a really good sign. This removes “gout” from the equation
It’s actually feeling much better this morning. I stayed off my feet for a couple of days as I was hip deep in accounting for court.
It was probably one of those strange things and quite possibly tied to my surgery :(
Glad you’re feeling better. What was the reason for the surgery? If doesn’t seem (to non-Dr. Me) to be a very common procedure.
Compartment syndrome on both legs. The surgery fixed that, thank god.
Jeez. That sounds really grim. It would be difficult not to equate your present discomfort to both the syndrome and the surgery. Hope you are still feeling better.
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