I can't imagine doing this again. I never want another surgery of any kind on my feet. The immobility has driven me crazy. It also didn't help doing it 2 days after my son got married and moved out. This has left me way too much time to sit and think about him being out of the house, getting older and my mother getting older. Just really bad timing.
I have been up on crutches off and on today with 25% weight bearing and I have not had any pain. It swells and my toes turn dark red/purple but no pain. I hope this is a good sign.
Yeah. I recommend starting PT early too. I started it at about 10 days on my right side and 6 days on my left. Makes all the difference. Just slowly progress; 25% for two days then go to 50 etc. You'll get there and pain is totally normal when you start weight bearing; you'll be dealing wit weight bearing pain for at least two weeks in the boot.
Don't forget to work extra hard on your toes; mistake I made was ignoring them in my rehab exercises. Ended up having trouble walking when I came out of the boot since the toes weren't moving and weren't grabbing the bottom of my shoe. You'll get there don't worry! Massage the hell out of that wound too to get rid of the scar tissue that built up from being non weight bearing for so long.
I started wiggling my toes a couple days post op. As soon as they took the wrapping off my toe area I started touching them and moving them around some. It made me feel better at least moving my toes when I couldn't move anything else. As soon as I got in the boot I started scrunching them up like trying to pick something up with them on the bottom of the boot. Pt also had me doing an exercise flexing my foot towards my head and scrunching my toes at 2 wks post op. This wk they had me do the wobble board which I could control well but could not make edges touch floor. They also put a towel on floor and had me grab it with my toes and slide it back and forth while putting pressure down with my foot. Then he rolled a towel up and put ball of foot on it and try to put heel all the way on floor and back up. These were all new exercises along with walking with crutches with 25%weight bearing. I go back Friday and hopefully will have even more ROM and strength. Maybe next week I can increase weight bearing.
Right now I only walk a few minutes in my house before I can feel the swelling starting and toes get really dark. In your experience how long before I can go an hour or two before swelling etc? I really want to take my daughter school clothes shopping like we do every year but I want to be able to do it with her not have to go sit down every 10 minutes.
The swelling gets really bad. I wish surgeons were more accessible so you didn't have to ask people on the internet; medicine needs a bit of a revolution I think.
Anyway, one thing you can do is mess with the amount of air in your boot. If you jam pack it full sometimes that makes the swelling sensation go away. There's also a way to wrap ace bandages in a figure 8 form that you can google up which will help push the fluid up away from your foot.
Another idea is to get some NSAIDs My surgeon the second time around put me on Naproxen 375 mg 2-3 times a day which is just a stronger version of Aleve. It really helps with the swelling if you stick with it around the clock for the weeeks you are transitioning off the crutches. Of course I'm not remotely medically qualified or a doctor so you'd have to talk to the surgeon's office, but hey it worked for me. Obviously icing it and elevating it makes a big difference too.
I think they intentionally leave the details out sometimes so patients won't chicken out before sugery. I also think it's better getting actual medical advice from the doctor but there's something to be said for personal experience. I think this is one of those things that you really have to experience for yourself to understand all the various pains etc. It helps some to talk to others who have been through it or are going through it and know what there experience was.
Thanks for taking the time to give me some information.
Hi Dan. Thank you for the response. I’m having this surgery in a few weeks and am very nervous. Dr assures me I will be able to walk after 2 weeks in a boot. After reading everyone’s complications I’m hoping there is also some success. How ha your recover been?
I’ve had half dozen prp prolo injections. It won’t fix structural or mechanical issues - just help things like small tendon tear etc. Not going to help mechanically loose ligaments or subluxing tendons. I’ve had surgery and non surgical - idea that non surgical is always better is not really true.
Good luck. Recovery is going well; good luck to you!
Yo can you please contact me personally, respond to this message and I will tell you how. I have been suffering through some very severe ankle/entire Lower half of leg pain that when I went to a doctor for was diagnosed as Peroneal Tendonitis. Since then they told me to go to physical therapy for a month which did not help in the slightest. I would really appreciate if you could reach out to me and tell me what you did and how you got surgery and what doctor you saw etc ...
Yo my lower left leg is destroyed at times causing pain so severe I wake up in the middle of the night needing to take Advil. When I went to the doctor they told me it was Peroneal Tendonitis but I never had an X-ray/MRI so I’m not 100 percent sure. Please reach out to me and help me with what doctor you saw, what surgery you got, see if we had the same problem, etc .. thank you !
Where are you located and what kind of doctor did you see? Foot and ankle orthopedic surgeon is the only person you should see for ankle ligament and tendon stuff. Podiatrists are too conservative in my experience with treatment and other doctors don’t know enough - hand and wrist and foot and ankle are extremely complex, way more so than kneees And shoulders.
Hello Dan23076 I see a orthopedic surgeon and I am just recovering from my 2nd surgery in Jan. My Tendons heal together and a had a lot of scar tissue that's what was causing all the pain. Now I am feeling better then the 1st surgery.
Just wondering, in your recovery did you have a pulling sensation where the Peroneal tendon is? I’m finally getting around in my boot however when I take it off or try to move my foot around my ankle is very tight and the tendon pulls. I’m hoping this is normal and PT will help.
I’m one year out from surgery. It will be tight especially in the mornings for almost a year. I’m just now waking up not noticing tightness. I am 75% back to normal at this point and am playing basketball league/softball/golf.. exploding off of that ankle is painful still but I believe it will get better with more stretching and excercise.
If your peroneal isn’t popping over your ankle bone daily, you don’t have my issue.
i am 6 weeks post op and started walking on and i do have the popping. this is very strange i didnt have this before the surgery.
hi everyone, i know this post was originally posted a while back. i had sever lateral foot pain, couldnt bear weight, and was swollen as all get out. i went to urgent care, where they told me they didnt know what was wrong (even after x-rays) and told me to elevate, rest and ice. i knew something else was up so i went to an ortho doc and after x-rays and an mri...i had an os peroneum that was conpletely shattered and torn either my tendon or ligament (i cant remember). i had surgery this past wednesday. they gave me an array of meds (hydros, naproxen, phenergan, keflex, and a muscle relaxer for muscle spasms). my pain has been tolerable. BUT THESE LEG/FOOT SPASMS ARE MAKING ME CRAZY. i have my first follow up appointment tomorrow. has anyone else experienced these spasms??
Do they feel like shocks by the incision?? If so those are the nerves trying to reattach since they were severed.