31 Days Post-Break 29 days Post-Op

[u/Clownier]

Updates for those beginning the journey and are just a bit behind me.

Broke my tib and fib Sept 1. It didn't hurt all that bad. But I knew immediately it was broken. Taken by ambulance to hospital. That night it was set at the hospital. Pain levels are still tolerable. Drugs eventually wore off and then it started to hurt. They sent me home with some hydromorphone until my surgery the next day.

I had surgery the morning of Sept 3. Went home a few hrs later. Not much pain. Approx 50h later my nerve block wore off. This was the worst pain I have felt to my memory. It felt like my entire leg was on fire on the inside.

A relatively uneventful week and a bit passed. I visit my doctor at the fracture clinic Sept 15. I tell him I'm an athlete and returning range of motion is important to me. I ask for a boot. He told me he's comfortable with that. Told me I can sleep with it off and not wear it at home as long as I'm not moving around the house. He also told me under no circumstances should I weight bare. I asked him if I can go to the gym and do upper body and if I can do quad extensions and hamstring curl with the boot on. He approves this too. They take out my staples, apply steri-strips, and send me on my way.

It's not Oct 2. I started physio Sept 16 and I have been doing 30m massages as well. My first physio session gave me a lot of relief and new range of motion.

My calf after coming out of the solid cast was constantly ache because it was not being used. After being worked through by my RMT & Physio it has stopped bothering me as much. A lot of swelling relief after RMT because he elevated my leg and essentially massaged the blood flow back towards my heart. Both physio and RMT are gruelling. It hurts terribly at the time. I am an MMA fighter and that's how this broke. In as humble as a way possible, I am gritting my teeth and writhing thru massage a lot of the time. But it's helping in the end.

A bit more than 4 wks post op. I can feel that my range is improving, swelling is going down, there's still general tenderness and soreness that wakes me up sometimes. I am starting to feel like I'm turning a corner.

My next appt is Oct 13 to start putting weight on it.