raeanna74

Since I broke my foot a year and 4 mo ago I've had some trouble off and on.
Lately I have been working in construction and on my feet much more. I have been wearing what I considered some supportive tennis shoes with arch supports. These particular arch supports helped relieve pain when I started walking on my foot again so I would assume they would still help.
I have a chip that is about the size of a half dollar on the front side of my heel on the outside of my foot. It has lately been causing some swelling in my ankle and on the top of my foot over the arch. I have noticed some sort of weakness in my ankle that causes it the muscles to just sortof let go at times and I end up turning my ankle out and stumbling.

What kinds of supports, inserts, or shoes would you recommend to help prevent this problem somewhat?

I am resigned to some pain at times until I'm so sick of it that I have the chip removed. According to the bone and joint specialist the chip will never reattach and the only solution is to remove that chip. After the surgery I would be off that foot for about a month or up to 6 weeks. I'd prefer not to deal with that right now if I can avoid it.

I have been icing the foot at night to help take down the inflammation and taking the average Ibuprophen or Tylenol doses when really needed. Is there anything else that some of you would recommend? Any home remedies to help relieve this pain?

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snowy

The doctor is right--eventually you are going to have the bone chip removed. My mom had a similar problem with chips in her ankle--the chip starting chipping and pieces of bone would float into her ankle and cause her ankle to go out. She eventually had to have surgery to remove the chips and a ton of scar tissue built up through years of wear and tear. The fact is, the sooner you do it, the better--because the younger you are, the faster you will rebound from it.

And I doubt you would have to be completely off of it for that long--after two weeks of rest my mom was in a walking cast. Of course, that first two weeks she spent most of her time in either an AirCast or a CryoCuff:


Something like this though--I would really recommend taking your doctor's advice. Bone chips aren't something to be messed around with, and it's not something that's going to go away until it's removed.

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eribrav

I'm not sure exactly what kind of construction you're doing but I would imagine it involves heavy lifting, bending etc. If that's the case you should have footwear that offers ankle support, probably in the form of workboots. There's no tennis shoe that can substitute for a supportive boot.

raeanna74

True I would like to get some decent workboots. The construction we're doing has been everything from painting to carpeting, and roofing. Tomarrow is roofing. I will see if Mom has some boots I could use. All I have are winter boots and no workboots.

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