broken fifth metatarsal

Hey John,You're not troubling anyone.I personally haven't dealt with anything like what you're dealing with.

I would ask someone at your Doctor's office or whomever takes his calls.A Nurse,etc. Call and tell them what you posted and get them to relay it to your Doctor.They'll probably call you back with an answer.

I hope your pain goes away soon,
Rick

John you need to delete one of these threads since they are duplicates. Thanks, Susie

No worries! As for hurting when walking on it I would go slow, use a cane or crutches for awhile longer. Start by simply light weight bearing, resting it on the floor and move into bearing more of your weight over a week.

You may also want to just kind of while your sitting exercise it some. The inactivity of even a few weeks can cause pain in movement and stiffness.

If it continues to be painful you may need to see an orthopedic Dr.

Yep!  What ^^Vickie^^ said.

When I broke mine (and I've broken bones in my foot at least three times, and have one pin), that's exactly what I did.

I didn't know when I broke it.  It was in the middle of the night and I tripped getting off the toilet (that's what drop foot will do to you when you're half asleep)....I went to bed, and woke up with an extremely large and swollen purple foot!

It looked like it belonged to "Barney" (the dinosaur!)  It didn't look like part of my own body.

My Husband (ever the empathetic fellow that he is) says, "Just walk it off!"  (He didn't think it was broken!)

Yeah,...no.

Anyhoo, I did what Vickie discussed.  Until I could truly bear weight on it, I would practice doing partial weight while I was sitting down and without a doubt I used a crutch to help me out.

It healed up pretty quick but I'm convinced anything going on the foot has it's own pain scale!

M.