Week 8 check-in
8 week check-in, things seem to be going good, standing and walking with no boot on feels ok, but it’s also tight and I haven’t been pushing it much as I’m supposed to still be using the boot.
Appearing to follow the protocol of one of the studies I found, my doctor mentioned to take my boot down from 10deg this week every few days as felt comfortable. As the VacoCast can do smaller increments I think I went down to 5deg yesterday, half of a notch between 1 and 0, with zero being at 90deg. I get all confused with the angle numbers, I just know that my goal is to get to the 0 on the boot by the end of the week. I honestly don’t know if I’ll make it. I was zipping around with the boot set at 1, nearly walking normal, changing it even at the slight angle is very uncomfortable and I’m back to gimping again. It started to feel good for a small window today, then went back to being uncomfortable…
The one other thing I keep noticing is the feeling like “pop rocks” in my Achilles. I’ve felt it since day one, it’s not tingling, it’s not numbness, just feels like those pop rocks you eat, but in my leg. I had assumed it was simply the healing process, but now I don’t really know. It’s not uncomfortable, just doesn’t feel normal…
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I always described a similar feeling as “champaign bubbles”. I’ve felt it before- with other major injuries- and have always (right or wrong) associated it with healing. So, I was actually very happy when I started feelling it with this one.
Cool, that’s good to know… I wonder when it will go away…