Red foot , leg

Take it easy on yourself. Its a hard recovery and it can take time to weight bear fully again. The color in your foot will go away. After a long day, my foot still sometimes turns colored for a bit. Ive got two plates and 12 screws in my ankle. Keep up with any physical therapy exercises. Keep walking, the more you practice and make your foot move as normal as possible. Its going to suck some days, but it will get better. You have to regain the muscle memory back.

Take it easy on yourself. Its a hard recovery and it can take time to weight bear fully again. The color in your foot will go away. After a long day, my foot still sometimes turns colored for a bit. Ive got two plates and 12 screws in my ankle. Keep up with any physical therapy exercises. Keep walking, the more you practice and make your foot move as normal as possible. Its going to suck some days, but it will get better. You have to regain the muscle memory back.

Take it easy on yourself. Its a hard recovery and it can take time to weight bear fully again. The color in your foot will go away. After a long day, my foot still sometimes turns colored for a bit. Ive got two plates and 12 screws in my ankle. Keep up with any physical therapy exercises. Keep walking, the more you practice and make your foot move as normal as possible. Its going to suck some days, but it will get better. You have to regain the muscle memory back.

hi hun,

yes everything is normal your experiencing .

dont be scared try to weight bare as tolerated .

red feet and swelling is completely normal .

I still have yet to see my doctor since my first follow up appointment because of the virus.

we do virtual appointments over the phone till I get my x-rays done so he can look at them before hand.

also I’m a month behind in physical therapy because of the virus.

but every week it’s getting better pain with physical therapy is different from healing pain

keep walking as best as you can

try to move to one crutch when you feel safe

then no crutches when your able too

God Bless you and your recovery

hi hun,

yes everything is normal your experiencing .

dont be scared try to weight bare as tolerated .

red feet and swelling is completely normal .

I still have yet to see my doctor since my first follow up appointment because of the virus.

we do virtual appointments over the phone till I get my x-rays done so he can look at them before hand.

also I’m a month behind in physical therapy because of the virus.

but every week it’s getting better pain with physical therapy is different from healing pain

keep walking as best as you can

try to move to one crutch when you feel safe

then no crutches when your able too

God Bless you and your recovery

Hi I saw my consultant this week and was told all OK for me to partial Weight bear with my boot on and can take my boot off when resting. I had my first proper physio session yesterday I too was very worried thinking I would be expected to weight bear right away but I can reassure you the physio helped moved my ankle and massaged it a little to help the movement and stiffness. When moving it there was discomfort but I was surprised for me not intense pain. I was helped to put my leg in the right position for walking and given an exercise to practice standing properly and before I knew it the physio asked me to move my injured leg forward and then my normal leg following and before I knew it I was partial weight bearing and walking down my hallway. Admittedly it was slow and jerky movements not fluid movement but I only felt a little discomfort but I had taken my prescription painkiller in preparation which I would advise. I had in my mind convinced myself I would not walk properly again through the days when I felt depressed so was amazed how quickly he helped me realise there's a light at the end of the tunnel and with exercises and determination on my part I now believe I will walk with time. As I say I have had my boot on for 9 weeks and it was my first physio session but feel more confident already. I am sure there is more discomfort and hard work to come in my weekly sessions. The foot going reddish blue when down I too have every time my foot is not elevated so I think that's normal. Please don't worry too much you won't be expected to full weight bear straight away you have to build up to that and it won't be as bad as you imagine it will be. I wish you lots of luck in your recovery. Julie x