Still have chronic heel pain - Foot Problems Message Board

moomin46 · 08-10-2007, 03:53 PM

I posted last week I had my cast off last friday from having a broken ankle and surgery to two sides with plates and screws.

One week on and my heel is still torture. Any weight bearing at all is agony and it is no better than a week ago.

Had my first physio and mentioned it to them, they wrote it all down and that was all, I suppose they want to see if it improves before my next appt in a week.

I have spoken to people who have had the same thing and they didnt exerience the heel pain.
Don't know what I can do?

carol1225 · 08-14-2007, 10:54 AM

Hi Moomin
Odd thing when I read your post, I had very similar thing happen... Was NWB for more than 10 weeks, 7 1/2 weeks in cast... then onto the Herman Munster boot for another 12 weeks but anyhow when I was given the OK to start balancing weight and then onto full weight bearing, I was determined to take steps, I parked myself next to the counter determined to take those three steps to the fridge for a Pepsi... I did it after 3 failures and I was so excited, I couldn't wait for the hubby to come home to show him how I "walked"...

So when he arrived I showed him and I went down in a heap this pain came from nowwhere and it was insane...it was primarily around my heel and in the arch, I would have sworn that they left something behind in my surgery - like a knife in my heel and marbles in the arch..
I seen the OS a week later and he said the ankle was week from prior injury and then surgery and to give it 3 more weeks... stay on crutches etc., I wanted to walk but I tell ya...that pain made me stay on the crutches, I would attempt it at times but it would drop me to the floor. I found out later it was Planters Fasciities, I bought every thing imaginable to cure it... Heel lifts made of silacone, rubber, memory foam etc,. I will still in the boot so it wasn't a matter of changing shoes but I did that immediately out of the boot. I find that rolling a frozen can of soda under my foot really helps and if I stretch it out before walking then I am good, not wearing flat shoes also helps. It still knocks me down on occassion but its alot better, it takes time... patience and more time... It took about 3 months for it to settle down where it didnt' take my breath away but mornings are incredible...sometimes I crawl to the bathroom and my hubby laughs... I wish none of this on him but a week of PF would cure him of his laughter I am sure!
Try to stretch it out before you apply pressure and try the frozen soda can, sounds wierd but I tell ya it worked for me!
I wish you the best, good luck and hope your walking pain free soon!
Carol