nondisplaced distal fibula fracture

Update: today is 5.5 weeks (Day 39) post of injury. Just back from my doctor's visit. From X-ray, not much callus was seen, talus sits perfectly in the joint, shape of ankle looks good. Dr. says he didn't expect too much callus because the displacement was only 1-2 mm. He examed my ankle and saw red/purple bruise around the bony bump and told me I would experience soreness upto to a year. He said I can walk without crutches or the walking boot, but I will use the boot at least for sometime. He said I will heal just fine. I am a chemist (mainly work in the office and tell technicians what to do). He said I can return to work today without limination. I specifially asked whether I can walk 0.15 miles unassisted (from parking lot to my office), he said yes. He didn't schedule any further appoitment for me.

Looking back, I should have wore the walking boot most of the time post injury (I only wore ~20%, since I was in bed most of the time). That might have caused a little bit displacement and might have slowed down bone growing. Looking forward, I will give myself another full week to recover and to train myself walk unassisted, but in the walking boot. I plan to return to work next Monday. 

Right now, I can walk unassisted with a limp. After walking, I would experience soreness in the ankle and sometimes some discomfort around the fracture. Not sure whether I need to seek a 2nd opinion. 

I wish everyone a speedy and full recovery. 

Update: today is my 7 week post injury (49 days). Since my last Dr. visit 10 days ago, I started to walk without cruthes. I experienced pain from muscle, heel, and toes for the first couple of days. Then things got better. I went back to work about 3 days ago and survived working for 4 days! I am still walking in a boot. Limp has improved by a lot. I have experienced discomfort every now and then, but no pain. The lateral side (fractured) does get swollen at work, but no reddness. Swelling goes away at sleep. I may give you guys another update in a few weeks about my whole experiences dealing with fracture. I wish everyone a speedy recovery. 

Another update: today is my 11th week (77 days) post ankle injury. I have been working for almost 5 weeks (1.5 hrs of  round trip driving and 8.5 hrs at work). Overall, things have been going well. 

Last Dr. visit was 06/06/2016; Dr. said I didn't need the boot any more. I returned to work on 06/13/2016 and had my boot on at work and during driving till 07/08/2016. For the first couple of weeks returning to work, I experienced much discomfort/ache around the ankle area, due mainly to swelling. After about 2 weeks, ankle became better, but I over-did it twice by mowing grass (uneven surface, walked too much...). Anyway, ankle recovered slowly in the boot; limp improved a lot, but still quite obvious with the boot on. 

Since 07/08/2016, I have been boot-free. Ankle was sore when walking, and limp was worse than with a boot. However, within a week without the boot, ankle improved very significantly: soreness is a lot less frequent and limp is almost unnoticeable. 

I have not achieved full range of motion yet, but is improving. My ankle would still swell in the day, but a lot less significant. Almost no discomfort/ache is experienced now. Ankle returns to normal in the morning with almost no limping at all. I guess it is recovering well. 

Here are my suggestings based on my own experience:

1. immobolization. Fractured Bone heals the most quickly when immobilized properly. So in the first 3-4 weeks, try to have the fractured bones immobilized by whatever means the doctor suggests. If I immobilized better, I would even heal much more quickly. 

2. pain-killers: A lot of resources say that pain-killers slow down bone growth. so if you can handle the pain without pain-killers, don't take it. I only took pain-killers for 3 days. 

3. Diet: a normal diet should do, but do eat some fibers and drink a lot of water. I took ~4000 unit of vitamin D and ~1.2 g of calcium daily. I don't know how much they helped, but they might not do harm to my body. 

4. Excercise: Your body will tell you when you are ready. So don't rush and don't oever do it. Because I needed to go back to work as soon as I could, I probably rushed it quite bit. But looking back, it probably did not help at all. 

5. Lastly, stay positive.

that's basically my story in a nutshell. If anyone would need more info, please feel free to comment and I will give more info. 

I wish everyone a speedy recovery.