like, ow.
So, I never thought I'd be glad to find out I'd broken my ankle...
See, I've had this chronic ankle and foot pain for over a year now. Unlike the kind that gets better after work when you take your shoes off, it's just been hurting all the time, especially when I'm standing a lot at work.
So I finally went to the doctor again, and then to a podiatrist, where they took ankle x-rays instead of just feet ones.
Well! Four years ago, when we were moving out of our old house, I was running through the backyard for some reason, and wearing some tall shoes at that, when I turned my ankle in a dip in the ground. Thought it was just sprained, got an Ace ankle bandage, and went on with moving for the first time in nine years. I didn't want to go to the doctor about it because I'd gone about a "broken" arm in seventh grade and it turned out to be just a pinched nerve, and I didn't want to waste time and money on it.
Buuut, turns out I'd actually broken it! You could see right on the x-ray the little line where the fracture had healed. O_o I'm actually really glad to know that this pain has an actual cause, since the last times I went in to the doctor about it, nothing really happened or helped.
So instead of being a wimp over a "sprain", I actually was the opposite, heh. The doctor said that if I'd gone in at that time they would have had to do surgery on a fracture like that, and that he'd only seen one other who had walked around on a fracture and he was a guy in a rodeo, so that amused me. Of course, I do wish I'd gone in because it would probably spare the pain now, but alas, can't help that...
So, thanks to this I have a kind of arthritis in my ankle there, because the bones are no longer aligned perfectly, like they are in the other ankle. I also have achilles tendonitis in both feet, which I knew about already, but it really sucks. :P My foot's all taped up and I have to keep it on for five days, and hopefully that will help things, because I'd rather have an orthotic than physical therapy/cortisone/surgery, bleh.
And that is more than you ever wanted to know about my feet!
See, I've had this chronic ankle and foot pain for over a year now. Unlike the kind that gets better after work when you take your shoes off, it's just been hurting all the time, especially when I'm standing a lot at work.
So I finally went to the doctor again, and then to a podiatrist, where they took ankle x-rays instead of just feet ones.
Well! Four years ago, when we were moving out of our old house, I was running through the backyard for some reason, and wearing some tall shoes at that, when I turned my ankle in a dip in the ground. Thought it was just sprained, got an Ace ankle bandage, and went on with moving for the first time in nine years. I didn't want to go to the doctor about it because I'd gone about a "broken" arm in seventh grade and it turned out to be just a pinched nerve, and I didn't want to waste time and money on it.
Buuut, turns out I'd actually broken it! You could see right on the x-ray the little line where the fracture had healed. O_o I'm actually really glad to know that this pain has an actual cause, since the last times I went in to the doctor about it, nothing really happened or helped.
So instead of being a wimp over a "sprain", I actually was the opposite, heh. The doctor said that if I'd gone in at that time they would have had to do surgery on a fracture like that, and that he'd only seen one other who had walked around on a fracture and he was a guy in a rodeo, so that amused me. Of course, I do wish I'd gone in because it would probably spare the pain now, but alas, can't help that...
So, thanks to this I have a kind of arthritis in my ankle there, because the bones are no longer aligned perfectly, like they are in the other ankle. I also have achilles tendonitis in both feet, which I knew about already, but it really sucks. :P My foot's all taped up and I have to keep it on for five days, and hopefully that will help things, because I'd rather have an orthotic than physical therapy/cortisone/surgery, bleh.
And that is more than you ever wanted to know about my feet!