I had my first injury/surgery back in april.
Jones fracture and I ripped apart all the stuff on outside of ankle and peroneal and its cover from an impact accident/fall.
My foot was so loose it was unsafe to walk as the peroneal would sublex and I had no stability or control and then the ankle would lockout so I couldn't put the foot down.
So to campare how helpless I was pre surgery to now, where I feel the foot is stable and I'm returning to a physical job and jogging, its amazing.
I am the type of person to be active outside of work as well, every day. I gained a good amount of weight during this process and am losing it but I still find I am not in the shape I was before. It feels like I need to keep training.
What has played tricks on me is worrying about every little pain during rehab and even now 5 months later because I want to compare my bad side to what it was. So I think I obsess over it a bit too much and have been told you have to use it or lose it to a degree, although they didn't want me to push through sharp pains that limited my range of motion.
Now that I am getting more up to speed lately with my abilities I am finding that most days are pretty good. I will warmup for the day and do my activities without feeling like I am dragging the bad foot along. I like to take a bath and massage my foot and many times I won't even feel swelling before going to bed.
Now it seems after about every good week I will wake up with some sharp aches/pains around the original injury sites, although it isn't like I reinjured the foot or it has become unstable.
On these days I will take a day or two completely off. I could probably push through and do mild activities but always think about how terrible the conservative approach was before surgery and not wanting to deal with any pains when it effects simple range of motion and walking for example.
I have no warning, and thus far have never had anything give out during my good workouts and I am progressing overall.
I keep questioning the health of the repair each time I crash.
I was talking with some others in pt and I wonder if you are ever the same after having surgery, and if flare ups are just the new norm?
Jones fracture and I ripped apart all the stuff on outside of ankle and peroneal and its cover from an impact accident/fall.
My foot was so loose it was unsafe to walk as the peroneal would sublex and I had no stability or control and then the ankle would lockout so I couldn't put the foot down.
So to campare how helpless I was pre surgery to now, where I feel the foot is stable and I'm returning to a physical job and jogging, its amazing.
I am the type of person to be active outside of work as well, every day. I gained a good amount of weight during this process and am losing it but I still find I am not in the shape I was before. It feels like I need to keep training.
What has played tricks on me is worrying about every little pain during rehab and even now 5 months later because I want to compare my bad side to what it was. So I think I obsess over it a bit too much and have been told you have to use it or lose it to a degree, although they didn't want me to push through sharp pains that limited my range of motion.
Now that I am getting more up to speed lately with my abilities I am finding that most days are pretty good. I will warmup for the day and do my activities without feeling like I am dragging the bad foot along. I like to take a bath and massage my foot and many times I won't even feel swelling before going to bed.
Now it seems after about every good week I will wake up with some sharp aches/pains around the original injury sites, although it isn't like I reinjured the foot or it has become unstable.
On these days I will take a day or two completely off. I could probably push through and do mild activities but always think about how terrible the conservative approach was before surgery and not wanting to deal with any pains when it effects simple range of motion and walking for example.
I have no warning, and thus far have never had anything give out during my good workouts and I am progressing overall.
I keep questioning the health of the repair each time I crash.
I was talking with some others in pt and I wonder if you are ever the same after having surgery, and if flare ups are just the new norm?
is it normal to have long term bad days after recovering from surgery?
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