Complete Rupture Achilles Tendon

Thanks for the reply Kevious. I am going to try to do as little as possible. My Doctor has already told me, it would be a complete reconstruction, as well as taking bone from my heel and using tendon from elsewhere to graft. My first surgery was not that involved, so i know i am going to have to be extremely careful this time. My new Doctor does things completely different from the Doctor that did the 1st surgery and I know if it can be fixed he is the one that can do it. I just wanted the IWalk 2.0 to make things a little easier when we moved. I am just sick of crutches.

This has been going on since Sept. of last year. First Doc was a quack. Just wanted me to go back weekly to bill my insurance company ( know this for a fact because he was fired from the facility he worked at for that reason) and did absolutely nothing for me or his other patients. The 2nd, was a Podiatrist/Surgeon ( it was originally thought i just had a really large bone spur on the back of my heel)who treated me from Oct of last year until last week. Because my insurance refused to allow him to do an MRI until all other options where exhausted, i didn't have one until Jan of this year. I was on crutches from Nov of last year until 2 weeks ago. Anyway, when he was finally allowed to do the MRI in Jan, is when they found the torn Achilles at the insertion point of the heel. He said that it was torn but the problem was the spur had literally shredded it where it was torn. So he fixed it. I was doing great until Thursday night, a week ago. So I'm back on crutches again. UGH!!! And facing an another surgery on Wednesday.

I don’t understand why they kept you on crutches so long, for general achilles treatment you should be partial weight bearing by 3-4 weeks and full weight bearing by 8-10 weeks. This is crucial as when the tendon heals it’s like a mass of fibres which are messy and weak, but the weight bearing stages help pull these fibres into shape and thus giving a stronger tendon heal. A more common problem when recovering is scar tissue developing which is just fragile, which is what I had and what the dr wanted to cut out so that I would have 2 good ends to attach, but my tendon would of needed lengthening afterwards.

Sounds like you have a plan now, I was sick of crutches after 6 weeks never mind months!! Hope it all goes well. I also read that protein is what the body needs to repair tendons and the like, and vitamin C helps this process. Again, it might be misinformation but it can’t hurt so I was doing this on my second recovery. 

The Doctor that did the first surgery is old school. Now I realize his methods were not the best. There were alot of things that he did after that hindered my progress and healing.

The Surgeon that is doing the 2nd surgery is a sports doc so he is up on all the new and advanced methods. He's just worried cause apparently the previous surgeon didn't do anything correctly, not only is he going to have to fix the ruputure but he is going to have to also fix what the previous surgron didn't . To give you an idea of how good this surgeon is, most people that have total knee replacements are fortunate if the artifical knee last 5 yrs. He did my husband's knee replacement surgery, it's been 10 yrs + and it's still going strong with no signs of needing to be replaced. Just so you know, my husband is very active. He hunts, fishes, works bee hives, works at job where he walks on concrete all day, ect. He never stops. So that should give you an inkling of how good this surgeon is. Like i said before, if it can be fixed, he's the one that can do it. So cross your fingers, toes and anything else u can cross that all goes well Wednesday. I will let u know how it goes. And thsnks for the input.

Yes, the I Walk 2.0 does appear to easier in some ways. A friend of mine had a scooter and let me borrow it earlier today. I love it. I find it very easy to maneuver inside. Now how it would be outside, i don't know.

As I said previously, we bought a house and will probably be doing the closing in the next week or 2. I thought it would be easier to maneuver around the new house cause i wanted fo some painting. Quess that's out for now.

I was fortunate with the first surgery. I had had so much pain before the surgery that i literally had almost none after even when i started to weight bear. Now don't get me wrong, i twinges, a feeling of my falling asleep, etc. but as far as real pain where i needed pain meds, i had none.

I was 4 months NWB.. my foot didn't seem to swell more no matter whether i was wearing my cam boot or i was wearing tennis. Everyone is different though and our bodies react differently.

Good luck to you. Hope it gets better.