In plaster for ten weeks now following talonavicular fusion.Anyone else in plaster so long?

I am from Glasgow in Scotland I had talonavicular surgery recently on the 6th of December 2017.

I stopped taking my painkillers on the 26th of December.

The worst thing I’ve experienced was a wound scare which thankfully cleared up nicely a week after it had happened.   I get my first X-ray on the 19th of January.

I heard quite a few people talking about gentle exercise I would recommend seated yoga to exercise the upper body so it is ready for physio therapy and exercise that will come part and parcel of recovery.

My yoga teacher suggested something called ocean breathes it is a form of load breathing that sounds like a calming ocean this can help with breathing through pain too.

I had this surgery to improve my left foot that had contracted arthritis after years of my foot and ankle turning due to Spina Bifida Oculta.  

My biggest goal after this surgery is to walk the best I’ve ever done before I started wearing splints from the age of 9.

Sleeping with the cast has been my biggest annyance but I would recommend putted leg in cast on 2 pillows and tilting it gently onto its side to help bring normality to your sleep pattern and gently change sides when you need to.

Hi.  Wish I'd found this a while ago!

I had my left talonavicular fusion done on 11th October 17.  Was in a back slab cast for 2 weeks then in a NWB one for another 6 followed by an aircast boot until mid January.  Been full weight bearing and alternating between the aircast and normal shoes for a week or so now, going to ditch the aircast at the weekend.

Pain and swelling was pretty bad for the first few weeks but I managed to get mostly free of the pain relief after about week 6.  Only take them now when I get quite unbearable pains that won't subside after getting the foot elevated - I personally found this to be one of the most reliable pain relief methods after that initial 6 weeks!!

My biggest problem now is trying to get the foot to work again properly, but as I'm only just past the 3 month point then I'm probably being overly optomistic! 

Has anyone else had nerve damage issues?  I have a complete loss of feeling in my big toe and the next 2 along extending back to roughly just under the arch.  Two outside toes and outside 1/3rd of the sole are unaffected.  Surgeon said that it's possible that a spur from the main nerves had been damaged but should grow back slowly (approx growth rate 1mm/week).  I'm finding it pretty difficult to walk as my foot is telling me that approx 2/3 of my foot isn't on the floor when I'm standing but my eyes are confirming that yes, the whole foot is on the floor.

Anyway, so glad that I had the op done and slowly coming to terms with the reality that the recovery is long but with life changing benefits at the end!  I had almost 10 years of near constant pain before working up the courage to get the op done and that pain is now gone!

I’ve been wriggling my toes more than once a day as soon as I got feeling back in my toes.

I didn’t have much feeling in my left foot to begin with so I may struggle with the weight baring part I had to have my left foot straghtened too.  

I also know the feeling of courage to get it done it was this or an amputation for me but this is the first stage of a second procedure I had an external fixator on when I was 17 and a half and after I got that off my foot bounced back to being wonky a year and a half after.      So I was more worried about going through something big and things not working out again.