broken metatarsal

I'm in the US, but I think your beckham boot is the same thing as what we call walking casts here. Sure sounds like it. My walking cast was plastic and fit from foot to knee. It was elevated a couple inches (maybe the length of my thumb, because I don't know what the metric equivalent to an inch is). I hobbled around for 3 months because the stress fracture wouldn't heal and the foot's swelling wouldn't go down. I walked up and down, since my cast made my left leg taller than the other leg.

Because it was a stress fracture, cracked the length of the bone, I only wore the cast when I was out at work, shopping and such. When I got home, the boot came out and I wrapped the foot with an elastic bandage. I told the doctor that I didn't move much once I got home. I know someone else that had surgery on her foot that did the same thing. She could hop around her home. I did the same thing, only I just limped. 

Hope you can find a solution, because I feel for you with a heavy boot on. It's not a comfy feeling. It bothers your back and other foot. I do have one suggestion, if your other foot you can find a shoe close to the same height it might help things a bit. 

Hiya - what type of metatarsal fracture have you got? It seems there's different treatment depending on what type of fracture it is.

I'm currently a week into a walking boot (beckham boot is an aircast boot that you inflate - walking boot just straps onto your foot up to your knee). I much prefer the walking boot to the cast I had on for four weeks prior.

You'll soon get used to it and you can loosen straps/remove it for a bath etc.

Stick with it it'll be worth it in the end - well that's what I keep telling myself 😀

It was a stress fracture just below the 'knuckle', middle toe. I had that walking cast on for 3 months, but I only wore it when I was at work ... at home I just wrapped it up with an elastic bandage. Now I've had the boot off since mid March and the foot is still swelled. I think I made everyone laugh because I told them I have fluffy toes, they're swelled too. If I walk my 4,000 steps it's better. At least it doesn't hurt. Just annoying because nothing keeps the swelling down. The doctor didn't seem too concern when I saw him about 10 days ago and said I was done. The therapists said it might swell for a year. Compressions bandage helps a little, but I really just want to wear two shoes that are the same already.