It's been exactly one week since I rolled my ankle/foot and ended up with a pretty bad foot sprain.  It is getting better, less bruising, swelling is down but not yet gone, and I can bear more weight on it.  However, and I know it's only been a week, it just feels like this is going to take forever.  I try to walk around the house without the boot and have started to do some rehab on it. Not much but at least it's something.  So, I was just curious as to others experiences with a badly sprained foot and how long until you were able to run again.  I'm already getting impatient.

It's been over 25 years for me, but when I rolled my foot and badly sprained my ankle, I also snapped two metatarsals in my foot at the time.  I heard them break too; it sound just like a small tree branch snapping in two. The silly doctor wanted to put a plaster cast on my foot all the way up to my knee, but I nixed that idea and walked around on my heel for about 8 weeks until it healed up. My PT says that foot looks a little wonky to him when I run, but it doesn't seem to affect my running at all. Give it time, you will heal, and you will run again. I speak from a great deal of personal experience here...