Stress Fracture (Read 1027 times)

It is usually pain on a bone, tender to touch or direct pressure, and occasionally worse with weight bearing on that bone.

Mine is severe and has lasted almost a year now. Whilst I was still running it ached lots and I would feel a deeper ache if I moved my leg at the right angle putting pressure on the bone. When pressing down the bone on my leg directly, it would go from no pain at all above the break, to a sharp pain down a 10cm stretch (fracture covers 7 cm in all) above my ankle. I am surprised how little it hurts. When I am not running and have rested it lots I am pain free. If I carry heavy stuff, walk too much, run because I forget I can't or swim it aches again. The majority of the time it doesn't bother me. Accompanying the pain was a weakness when I ran. It felt like I had to try extra hard to lift my leg and it just felt wrong. If I ran fast, hard, or daily the ache got worse and persisted all day. I knew right from the beginning that it was a stress fracture despite it taking 8 months to get a diagnosis. The pain, the ache, was always in my bone. Hope that helps.

Mine is severe and has lasted almost a year now. Whilst I was still running it ached lots and I would feel a deeper ache if I moved my leg at the right angle putting pressure on the bone. When pressing down the bone on my leg directly, it would go from no pain at all above the break, to a sharp pain down a 10cm stretch (fracture covers 7 cm in all) above my ankle. I am surprised how little it hurts. When I am not running and have rested it lots I am pain free. If I carry heavy stuff, walk too much, run because I forget I can't or swim it aches again. The majority of the time it doesn't bother me. Accompanying the pain was a weakness when I ran. It felt like I had to try extra hard to lift my leg and it just felt wrong. If I ran fast, hard, or daily the ache got worse and persisted all day. I knew right from the beginning that it was a stress fracture despite it taking 8 months to get a diagnosis. The pain, the ache, was always in my bone. Hope that helps.

Thanks. I'm just worried about sidelining myself because I thought it was muscle soreness. Did the fracture feel different than muscle soreness to you?

If you have any concern I would seek professional opinion at this point. You don't want to be sat in my chair this time next year. Good luck. I hope with all my heart that it is muscle soreness and nothing more. I always knew that it was the bone. It was the bone that ached. I tried to talk myself into other solutions but it always came down to the fact that the pain was a juddering deep ache in my bone when I ran. Claire xxx

I swore I had one, after x-rays and a MRI, it turned out it was a swollen nerve ganglion thing...after a month off, all it took was a steroid shot in my foot. Good as new...I guess things aren't always as they seem. Good luck healing.