compare progress 15 weeks

Dear rfoot, I, too, am of mature years😉 but I am not putting a number here! How long ago did you have surgery? And are your bones ok, i.e. no osteoporosis? My op was only 18 days but prior to my fracture I had been very fit and travelling and hiking a lot. So I have some idea how you must feel.

Now, I have been told that it can take up to 18 months for the ankle to return to normal. Of course I know that I will be able to walk and drive before then but the timescale for recovery frightens me. You, however, are doing well so be a patient patient. This is the advice

I get all the time so I can only repeat it to you. Good luck.

I didn't need surgery and to my knowledge I don't have osteoporosis but have never been tested -- as you have noticed I am not a patient patient!! 18 months to return to normal is a long long time at my stage of life.  I think my concern is, that without good exercise (eg the walking/hiking I was doing)  I will lose muscle tone and not be able to recover it.  I am not ready to be a little old lady with a walking frame yet.  I don't have the option to go swimming ( no pool nearby and I don't swim anyway) or cycling (would require buying a bike and the roads here are not cycle friendly)

I'm almost 16 weeks post op. Broke it in 3 places and dislocated my ankle. I have a plate and a bunch of screws.

I'm walking around in shoes without crutches or a cane, but still have a limp. In working hard at improving this.

My range of motion still has a ways to go. I can go up stairs normally, but down stairs I'm still having lots of trouble. I can stand on my injured leg only, but not for long. I haven't tried tip toes.

It doesn't hurt much, but it swells everyday. Goes back down overnight and is fine on the morning.

My goal is to return to running, but I'm not putting a time frame on it. Some people seem to get right back into things quick and others take awhile. I'm trying to focus on me and accept that things will take as long as they take. As long as I continue to make progress.

You'll be back to hiking as you were, but you do need to give it more time.

I am 63 so not far off from you. I'm at 16 weeks now, so not far off there, either. I did have surgery and have plates and screws. Otherwise its a lot like yours. I cannot walk fast. I walk well slowly, but by the end of the day, my lower leg swells and my ankle hurts. Mostly right over the bone where the head of one of the screws is-think its sitting up on a nerve.

?I used to do 2 miles every morning with my dog, how I'd love to just get back to that again! My doctor says I have breezed through each stage and actually healed faster than his patients half my age. It seems like slow going but I think we are just impatient to get back to "normal", I can get on my tiptoes-as a matter of fact, that's one of my exercises from my physical therapist, raising up and lowering back down. I'm with you though, hearing people who are jogging after 3-4 months, I can't even imagine trying that right now.

?Hang in there, I'm hopeful we will get back to where were.