Ankle weirdness
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Specifically, MRI or CT to check for nerve root compression. There may be no bony bodies, spicules or osteophytes, but we all of us have degenerative changes in the L4/L5/S1 area, and it wouldn't do any harm. Mention it to the quack, see if there's any follow-up recommended.
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Get a firm diagnosis before you stop with the docs, numbness ain't to be treated lightly. Go to a specialist.<br />
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Defo, i haev been out with an ankle problem for 6 months now and have a specialist appointment tomorrow morning. A real fucker of a place to pick up an injury because it is so hard to reast without taking time off work etc... -
As I read the earlier posts from NTA I was thinking it sounds like Bell's Palsy............but in the foot not the face....which is a virus I hear that gets in the nerve.I developed a dose of Bell's in my mid 30's that luckily only lasted a week. I had been inside a warm house on a cold Winters night and rather than brave the chill outside for a ciggy in the wee small hours I opended a windwo and blew the smoke out. I stayed at the window for awahile, watching the mist etc and a day later woke with the numb and lifeless thing happening on the left side. You mentioned having trained in the cold and exposing the lower limbs to the cold..........?
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<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> You're a scary lass for bringing up such things! Still, stranger things have happened - Steve Kefu got Bells Palsy a couple of years back, and he was much younger than I!<br />
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[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
Defo, i haev been out with an ankle problem for 6 months now and have a specialist appointment tomorrow morning. A real fucker of a place to pick up an injury because it is so hard to reast without taking time off work etc...<br />
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As I said to the physio - its not like you can just put the fucker in a sling... Crutches suck. -
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Speaking of which.......... I was scared to death today...went to hospital yesterday for a day procedure (womens business) which was an event in itself............only to be told just before they trolleyed me into theatre that the blood tests had revealed a genetic blood thing .I'm missing some sort of element which means my bloods clots and so am prone to deep vein thrombosis. I've had two clots so far, one after childbirth and the 2nd after watching 5 hours of rugby when I had the flu so didnt get off the couch at all a few Saturdays ago..I think it was the afternoon that began with AB's v France, then onto Aussie's playing some one and finally SA playing the Poms.<br />
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Anyways,came home from hospital wearing very unsexy support hose and a bag containing 10 syringes of some drug I have to inject myself with so was shown how to do this today at the docs, I was petrified. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />.......I don't know how diabetics do this to themselves every day, let alone junkies.............who wouldchoose to inject themselves if they didn't have to ?????????????<br />
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Mind you, just as well I have ample tummy fat as it'd be damn painful if I had abs.Never thought there would be a positive slant to being fat :happy: -
Had another physio session on Friday, and he strapped the ankle while I was there. Again, he emphasised it was a weird one.<br />
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On the walk down to the train this morning I started to get sharp pains on the inside of my left heel, and thought it was my heel splitting (it felt like getting a needle driven into the bottom of my foot). But no obvious signs of distress, so I thought it must have been referred pain of some kind.<br />
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Got the same at work when I went to the loo just now. Again, took the shoe off and found no cracking, or trauma of any kind.<br />
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But I tested the ankle and have found some strength back in it. This is really weird. I can now make the heel get just off the ground from a flat start, and can actually hold the heel off the ground if I go from a raised position. Interesting :nta -
Could there be the possibility that a pissed off ex has a wax effigy of you along with some of your hair and is doing some weird shit with it ?
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<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> That'd be going back about 10 years to get hold of an ex, so probably not. Maybe its the really hot chick at work who secretly desires me and wants to massage me back to health :nta<br />
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Maybe your Mrs has sussed out the hot chick at work and it is she who is doing the voodoo thing ? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />
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I have a similar problem with my wrist, (in my case its called called Keinbox disease). Basically it means the lunate in the wrist is crumbling from the inside of the bone out. Ive had a few ops on it but it is notoriously difficult to heal. Literally I went from benching 140kgs one Friday afternoon in 2003 (never had any sprains or knocks to my wrist) to not being able to even do one pressup with my right wrist the next day while warming up before a game. I went to a heap of specialists who all told me different things before seeing a hand surgeon in Derby who operated. The bizzare thing though is my wrist while it is still abit stiff and sore sometimes has actually repaired itself and knitted back together to the point where (while I still cant do a pressup) I can bench heavy weigths again. The official verdict is wear and tear so I geuss it has come about after years of whacking hard things/people and beoing stomped on in footy.
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Nick, where on the heel is the pain - is it right at the back on the sides? Also, try forcibly dorsiflexing the ankle - i.e. put your foot up on 1 step then push down through the heel to flex the top of the foot up (like a calf stretch). Does that cause a sharp needling pain on the sides of the heel? If so I think I know what it is.
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Don't worry RB - your country will be a little star on our flag one day, then we can all be convicts together <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /><br />
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[quote name='cyclopath']<br />
Nick, where on the heel is the pain - is it right at the back on the sides? Also, try forcibly dorsiflexing the ankle - i.e. put your foot up on 1 step then push down through the heel to flex the top of the foot up (like a calf stretch). Does that cause a sharp needling pain on the sides of the heel? If so I think I know what it is.<br />
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Nope - no pain in the heel. Stretches my tight calf like a bitch, but the heel only responds to direct pressure, and then only when I have the foot on the ground. If I press down with my finger where it hurts, it doesn't hurt. Might just be some bruise thingy.<br />
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[b]Don't worry RB - your country will be a little star on our flag one day, then we can all be convicts together <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />[/b]<br />
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[quote name='cyclopath']<br />
Nick, where on the heel is the pain - is it right at the back on the sides? Also, try forcibly dorsiflexing the ankle - i.e. put your foot up on 1 step then push down through the heel to flex the top of the foot up (like a calf stretch). Does that cause a sharp needling pain on the sides of the heel? If so I think I know what it is.<br />
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Nope - no pain in the heel. Stretches my tight calf like a bitch, but the heel only responds to direct pressure, and then only when I have the foot on the ground. If I press down with my finger where it hurts, it doesn't hurt. Might just be some bruise thingy.<br />
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Going to see a chiro tomorrow night.<br />
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my wrist while it is still abit stiff and sore sometimes has actually repaired itself and knitted back together to the point where (while I still cant do a pressup) I can bench heavy weigths again. <br />
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:nta See that sounds similar to my situation - its not that the leg can't take weight. It can for certain activities and especially working in tandem with the other ankle. Just that for the one-out standing on one foot its poked - like that is just the wrong position to ask it to operate properly, but for everything else its fine. Will see what the chiro says tomorrow re: nerve issues. -
Saw the chiro tonight - the one recommended by another therapist and by Mrs the Aussie. If I'd known she was that hot I would have seen her before anyone else <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Mid 20s, 5'9", in very fine shape. She can manipulate my skeletal systems anytime.<br />
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Got all my history and then did some tests - similar to what the physio did, but in different ahem positions <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> The difference was pretty interesting e.g. rather than do some tests with me standing up or lying flat, she made me sit certain ways and then tried them. Gave slightly different results to the physio which makes me wonder. :nta<br />
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Her conclusion: Get a CT scan before anything else, because she's thinking root nerve compression and doesn't want to crack any bones (gulp) until she's sure how to go about fixing it. So back to the good doctor tomorrow, CT requisition in hand. Results should be off to the chiro tomorrow and then we'll see.<br />
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A point I feel the need to make: its very hard to answer the question "does that hurt" when you can simultaneously see a gorgeous woman's black lace g-string peeking out from the top of her pants AND cleavage in the same shot, the only answer is "yes... yes it hurts a lot" -