Stress fracture

[Trevrev]

Hello people,
I was doing my lunch time 3.5 mile run, last Thursday when a felt a sudden sharp pain on the outside of my left leg about an inch up from my ankle. I carried on running, the pain didn't get worse, infact it eased off. It was sore the following day so i took time out on my Saturday 10 mile run, so not to make it worse.
So this Tuesday, i did another lunch time 3.5 mile run, leg felt only slighty sore but not too bad.
Did my Thursday run again this week and the pain was worse but ran it off.
It's weird, the pain is very localised, i can poke it right on the spot where it hurts, but move it around that area and it's fine.
My colleague seems to think i may have a stress fracture of the fibula, and after looking it up it does seem very possible.
Have any of the runners on here suffered with this at all?
How long should i rest it for?
Any advice would be great.

Trev.

 

[Kies]

No offence intended .... But why are you guessing and asking on this forum. Get yourself off to doc who will send you to hospital for an xray.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Get it checked out either at a walk in centre or via your GP. That bone is not weight bearing, it is on the one related to the rotation of the lower leg, so it is quite possible for it to be broken/fractured and still walk on it with only minor discomfort.
I fell over as a teenager and picked up a similar pain in the same place. It was sore on & off for weeks. I was abroad at the time so did not make a fuss but when I got back to the UK I finally went to a GP some 5 weeks after the orginal injury. The fibular was X-rayed at the local hospital and found to be in 3 pieces in a T shaped fracture. (I have broken 3 bones now over the years and only found out later - in 1 case it took me 5 years to find out my arm had been broken!)

If you leave it like I did, recovery will be even slower and you will at least have put your mind at rest which if anything will speed up recover more than anything else.

 

[Trevrev]

No offence intended .... But why are you guessing and asking on this forum. Get yourself off to doc who will send you to hospital for an xray.

Cause it doesn't seem that serious, i've had more painful pulled muscles.
Just asking if anyone had suffered one of these injuries.

 

[Trevrev]

Get it checked out either at a walk in centre or via your GP. That bone is not weight bearing, it is on the one related to the rotation of the lower leg, so it is quite possible for it to be broken/fractured and still walk on it with only minor discomfort.
I fell over as a teenager and picked up a similar pain in the same place. It was sore on & off for weeks. I was abroad at the time so did not make a fuss but when I got back to the UK I finally went to a GP some 5 weeks after the orginal injury. The fibular was X-rayed at the local hospital and found to be in 3 pieces in a T shaped fracture. (I have broken 3 bones now over the years and only found out later - in 1 case it took me 5 years to find out my arm had been broken!)

If you leave it like I did, recovery will be even slower and you will at least have put your mind at rest which if anything will speed up recover more than anything else.

Thanks for your helpful reply......As like you i'm not one to make a fuss. But if this is going to hinder my running i guess i'd best pester the doc over this one.
I can walk on it with only very minor discomfort, as you said. Even running on it wasn't too bad. But when you prod it, it hurts. Very strange little injury
I find after sitting for a while, putting weight back on it is the most uncomfortable. But still not the worst pain i've ever had.

 

[fossyant]

Look....

Man invented the wheel and bicycle. Running is for loosers !

Shin splint ? Go to GP who will probably just say rest it. See running is silly.

 

[Trevrev]

Look....

Man invented the wheel and bicycle. Running is for loosers !

Shin splint ? Go to GP who will probably just say rest it. See running is silly.

Hahahahaha!! You sound just like my wife.
She just doesn't understand why i do it.
" You cycle enough to keep fit! Why run you weirdo!" Thats all i hear from her!

 

[fossyant]

Puts Carl Pilkington voice on !

Can't see any point in running, it doesn't get you any where fast, and you end up just as out of breath as riding a bike. Pointless, legs were made for pedalling bikes.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Thanks for your helpful reply......As like you i'm not one to make a fuss. But if this is going to hinder my running i guess i'd best pester the doc over this one.
I can walk on it with only very minor discomfort, as you said. Even running on it wasn't too bad. But when you prod it, it hurts. Very strange little injury
I find after sitting for a while, putting weight back on it is the most uncomfortable. But still not the worst pain i've ever had.

If it helps, I went cycling, swimming (10m board for diving), water ski-ing, played squash & badminton with mine as well as walking miles & miles carrying my baby brother on my shoulders. It hurts to start, then was fine, just a nagging pain that mostly I could ignore. After the 5th week I got a job on the 4th floor of a building without a lift, by day 3 I could hardly walk... and that is when I ended up at the Dr's, then A&E, X-ray and in plaster! would have been quicker healing if I had been in plaster from the word go... though i would not have gone water ski-ing which would have been a shame..