As part of the operation I had a “block” put in my leg which meant I had no pain but after returning home the block had clearly finished doing it’s thing and my heel became pretty uncomfortable. Strangely it wasn’t the tendon or the operation site that was sore so I put it down to the fact that my heel was swelling and I assumed I must have crushed the heel of the cast a little whilst it was still wet.

The next morning my heel was still feeling uncomfortable so I contacted my GP and was prescribed 30mg codeine tablets which sorted the pain and also helped me remain stationary with my leg elevated as I couldn’t really be bothered to do anything. Result.

After 4 days of sitting on the sofa I was beginning to make a pretty good imprint of my ass on the cushion but I was now able to get back onto my crutches and try to get on with life again although I did elevate my leg whenever I was sat down (which was still more that I would have liked).

Getting off the sofa coincided with me stopping the codeine and I went back to paracetamol and ibuprofen for the next 3 days. After this I stopped pain relief all together and have had zero pain.

Early after my ATR a doctor described the surgery as “brutal”. I suspect this was an attempt at getting me to head down the coservative route as I didn’t find the surgery to be anywhere close to “brutal”.