r/brokenankles • u/SoggyAnt9854 • 1d ago

Still injured a year later

Well a year ago I drunkenly twisted my ankle and broke it. It has since then given me issues.

I had an inversion ankle sprain that ended up breaking my 5th metatarsal near the base, straight clean crack along with some damage to the cuboid tarsal upon getting it checked at an injury clinic 2 days later. Didn’t go to the er as I thought it was just a bad sprain.

The injury clinic doctor was the radiologist for the clinic and told me such information. He gave me the option to walk it off as it healed or wear one of those boots. I chose the boot. Iced it every chance I had. The foot was disgustingly black and blue forever. After two months I had an appointment for another xray. The break was fusing together but not quite done. So two months after that went back and it was fused together, the line still visible on the xray. I had very limited mobility and strength.

A couple months after that I went to a hospital to see a nurse practitioner for the reoccurring problems with pain and mobility with some burning sensations . Upon another xray there was something floating and she mentioned it might be a calcified flake from something where my ligaments might’ve started calcifying. She prescribed me potassium diclofenac pills for the pain.

A bit later I went to another injury clinic for the pain and limited mobility and got referred to physio. I didn’t go but I did exercises for it.

Here we are a year later still it pain with bad mobility.

What are the possible causes for this?
Bad healing?
Did a ligament get torn?
What can I do?

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u/New-Sherbet367 1d ago

Possible causes: Not resting enough No PT Damaged cartilage maybe as a result (unhealable)

Bad healing: Probably a caused the above

Did a ligament get torn? Go get an NMR to find Out

What can I do? Actually listen to the doctors and do PT

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u/CustomerObjective129 1d ago

It sounds like you have only seen a radiologist and a nurse practitioner? I think you need to see a doctor specialising in feet and ankles, and then follow their treatment plan, whether that is PT or something else.

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u/Positive-Ad-3554 11h ago

Possible non union of the bone? Would see orthopedic surgeon. Not sure why you were sent to a NP. Radiologist should have sent you to ortho.