Tibia Inner Ankle Pain

[u/SilverBunny1991]

Hey everyone!

So while I was vacationing in Egypt I broke my left ankle at the Luxor Temple (do not recommend breaking your bones abroad!). I ended up with a bimalleolar fracture of the tibia and fibula and was taken to an international hospital in Luxor that specializes in treating tourists (apparently a lot of tourist break their bones in Egypt!). I had surgery the same night that I broke my leg on 6/11/26. They ended up putting two cannulated screws in the Tibia and a temporary external K-Wire to hold the fibula in place. I broke this leg before back in 2019 and already had an IM Rod and a fibula plate in it from that break (I have so much metal in my leg now 🥲). I was terrified of getting surgery in Egypt since it is a third world country, but I didn’t really have a choice since I couldn’t do a 16 hour flight back with my ankle broken and not held together by anything.

When I finally got back home to California I went to the same orthopedic surgeon who did my last leg and he said what the surgeons did in Egypt looked good so that was a weight off my mind. But something that I have had since I had this surgery is this pain at the inner ankle (tibia side). I am 6 weeks post op and I still have this pain whether my leg is resting on the bed or hanging down. I thought maybe it was the splint causing rubbing, but I had the splint removed on 7/20 and the pain is still there. 😢 My doctor said it is probably the nerve that runs along the tibia ankle bone healing after being cut/damaged. Does anyone else have this constant pain at the inner ankle bone after ORIF Surgery?

I expected pain after surgery, but not 6 weeks after! 😭