Thank you both for your replies, was starting to feel unloved. It has been such a long and draining process (5 1/2 months of non-weight bearing), I have seen another surgeon since - who thought I had been misdiagnosed, he had a senior radiologist look at all of the films (who then also questioned the stress fracture diagnosis). Last week I had another bone scan - which showed a def hot spot, the senior radiologist then completed a supplementary report from all films and confirmed the initial diagnosis. The report said that it involved the fascia??? rather than being a compaction stress fracture and was a chronic healing anterior stress fracture. So it looks certain that I will be having the IM nailing op. Has anyone had experience with this op before? Ie. recovery time, rehab, how much time non-weight beaing, cast/brace??? etc. Thanks again for your replies - much appreciated.