Prognosis - Right Ankle?

[dibblego]

Thanks for your patience.
By foot specialist, do you mean an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in lower limb or something else? Excuse my ignorance.

[dibblego]

Update.

Sorry but I take it all back. There is without a doubt a bone irregularity/discontinuity in both my tibia and fibula that is incredibly, immediately and unwaveringly obvious. It feels like a previous fracture though I am not qualified to say. I have had two registered nurses (one also a practising midwife) confirm this observation with absolute confidence. It can be felt through the skin and I am no longer open to any other suggestion besides a bone problem. I suspect that this also explains my bone impingement upon dorsiflexion since the joint is out of shape.

Question: why can I only sometimes feel this? It seems as if there is a tissue/fluid build up and if I spend the effort pushing it all away I can finally find it and then others can come along and easily confirm it. An hour later it is all gone and it is then difficult to locate (making me look silly when I say it is obvious). Does fluid build up in these areas or something? I really need a doctor's confirmation so that I can put an end to this perpetual hell. I'm afraid that my next doctor visit will be another unsuccessful attempt to locate this obvious problem that has gone undetected by 3 MRIs.

Sorry about the emotionalism. Why am I apologising to a text box? Send

[dibblego]

Here is my story: Ankle Injury - Tony Morris

Comments are appreciated. Please help.

[Julesel]

I am sorry about your luck. I actually had the Brostrom-Gould Procedure done about two weeks ago. Before I had the procedure, I had sharp pains that went up my leg and the pain and the intervals between pain and relief kept getting worse. I had an MRI done in April and it just showed the ruptured ligaments that needed repaired. It did not show what the surgeon found inside my ankle. When the Orthopedic surgeon cut me open, he found that a tendon had broken off a piece of my fibula and it was still attached to the tendon. This piece of bone started to calcify and was creating a pearl inside my joint capsule. This was most likely the cause of my horrible pain and strange swelling. This swelling would come and go and would get worse as the day progressed. Anyway...the point of my story is that MRI's do not always show everything and sometimes the doctor has to cut you open before he can find out what is wrong. Maybe some sort of scope or biopsy would be a good idea in your case. Good luck