I am so sorry to hear about this. My injury just happen but I just found a club page on Face Book that I think will help you out. Check it out it's called the "LisFranc Fracture Club" I just started reading everything on there. Good Luck to you. I am also you, well a little older than you. So I feel your pain, literally..
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This article really helped me, and is describing everything. I'm experiencing even down to my husband trying to make me stop reading. I'm scheduled to have my cast off next week and transitioned into the boot. The way you expressed yourself in this article made me laugh. It touched so close to home for me.
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Hi, your post describes exactly what I'm going through with my foot, I'm currently 8 weeks into recovery after they put 3 screws in my foot. Currently I'm in a boot and should expect to be in a regular shoe in the next few weeks. I work for the railroad as a welder and I haven't found any information on people saying how hard it is once fully recovered to be able to work in that kind of environment... I work on Un even ground in work boots ALL DAY LONG. Will I still be able to do that? I'm only 26 and have a long life ahead of me.
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I'm almost 4 years out now and while uneven ground can be a pain for me, it is doable. I think especially if it's something you're already used to doing, you should be able to bounce back!
I still have my screws in, and the only thing I can't do is stand on tiptoe if I'm just on that foot. My balance is a little weird on uneven ground, but nothing too disruptive. Honestly, I don't even remember I broke it most days! (Until I over do it and hurt that night, lol)
Good luck to you, it does get better!!
I still have my screws in, and the only thing I can't do is stand on tiptoe if I'm just on that foot. My balance is a little weird on uneven ground, but nothing too disruptive. Honestly, I don't even remember I broke it most days! (Until I over do it and hurt that night, lol)
Good luck to you, it does get better!!
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I've just read your message. I'm 6 days since surgery - 3 screws - and today feeling down as I've realised I'm probably not going to be doing sports anytime soon plus I'm off work until Monday week which is only 2 weeks over after surgery although the surgeon gave me 60 days. Problem is I'm trying to protect my job and feel i don't have any choice but to go back so quickly. I'm a PA so alot of my work is computer based but it's the added pressure if this and the realisation about sports and not driving for sometime just has got me down today. I injured myself Feb and it's taken until June for surgery to happen as first doctor treated it as a sprain until I was referred to surgeon. I'd been in moonboot for 3 months without crutches. Thanks for your message about celebrating the small things as right now all I can think about is this shitty injury.
I've just read your message. I'm 6 days since surgery - 3 screws - and today feeling down as I've realised I'm probably not going to be doing sports anytime soon plus I'm off work until Monday week which is only 2 weeks over after surgery although the surgeon gave me 60 days. Problem is I'm trying to protect my job and feel i don't have any choice but to go back so quickly. I'm a PA so alot of my work is computer based but it's the added pressure if this and the realisation about sports and not driving for sometime just has got me down today. I injured myself Feb and it's taken until June for surgery to happen as first doctor treated it as a sprain until I was referred to surgeon. I'd been in moonboot for 3 months without crutches. Thanks for your message about celebrating the small things as right now all I can think about is this shitty injury.
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Glad this forum is here. I just suffered this injury yesterday while on a vacation in Indonesia. I had a surgery to stabilize the foot and my insurance/employee assistance is sending someone here who will help me get back to the US. I dread the flights:(. I live in a two-story house and right now my injury is so unstable I can't imagine anything other than a wheelchair. I don't know how I'm going to be able to be get into the bath or shower . I'm a single mom to a 12-year-old and can't even begin to think of what this recovery will look like.
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Thank you jenn I finally read something positive , almost been 3 months for me to , so I'm hoping to I can get out of the boot and put my other shoe on and walk , will see thanks again I feel better now
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I had my injury in 2011. I'm in the military and I'm able to do my physical training test and many other things,,,,but it is beyond painful afterwards. Arthritis sucks. Hope to go as long as I can.
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My injury was 5 years ago and I have still have 2 pins in my foot. I read all the blogs and horror stories which frightened the life out of me. However, I now do not have any pain now in my foot and can now run and go to the gym. My foot is slightly misshapen but I can wear heels. The one thing I would say, is make sure you have physic, which I didn't, as it will help strengthen your legs.
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I'm back to full function running sports and everything I'm over 9 months post surgery!!
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I too suffered a lisfranc when I was going to the gym early one morning. It was dark, I tripped over my 120lb dog and somehow flipped a high heal shoe that was sitting on the floor, impaling the bottom of my foot with the heel! ( crazy I know!!). When I came down off the shoe I apparently twisted it breaking all the bones across the top of my foot and tearing all the ligaments and tendons, completely dislocating my toes from the mid foot. On the X-ray my big toe was so far to the left that it wasn't even located above the rest of my foot! The Surgeon said if I didn't have immediate surgery I wouldn't be walking in a year.
I was terrified! I had had surgeries before but I was overwhelmed with the fear of having surgery affecting one of our most basic functions like walking on my foot! I feared I would never walk properly again - I just didn't know what to expect!
The surgery (beginning of July 2014) included screws, rods and a bone fusion. They fuse the bones together to create increased stability in severe dislocations. . was non-eventful but unfortunately I was one of the 'special ones' who experienced those 'side effects'. You know the things you over look on the paperwork when signing off on everything before you go into surgery!
Those side effects included massive swelling and horrible nerve pain. (The nerve runs down your leg/ankle and splays out to your toes right at the top of you foot). Again, I was terrified. I was doing everything right. Medication and RICE Therapy: Rest.. Compression.. Ice... Elevation. Yet it wasn't as expected. But I persevered and listened to the surgeon. The foot cast was not to come off and absolutely no weight bearing!!! He read me the riot act!! Absolutely no weight bearing!!! He said the bones in the foot are so small that with all the pins, rods and screws, you can easily re-break the bones, leaving nothing for the surgeon to work with. So I listened!
The nerve pain settled down after 3 months.. the swelling not so much.
The best thing I did for my sanity during those first four non-weight eating months was to rent a medical supply scooter that allows you to move around while you keep your knee/foot up. At first I couldn't use it that much because my foot would absolutely throb (it hangs foot down on the scooter) but over time it was a saving grace as it gave me the mobility I so missed. Much easier and safer than using crutches (I lost my balance on the crutches landing on my casted foot - surgeon rushed me in for X-rays- thank heavens everything was okay. But the fear!!! So not worth it!!)
The scooter made it easier to go to the washroom, get around the house and yes even outings to the grocery store!! You aren't totally independent.. you still need someone with you to load and unload the scooter and you still need your crutches, but it really is awesome! Getting off the couch was so incredible!! I even put a bike basket on the front to hold things like my water and cell phone!
After 4 'months (beginning of Oct) I was given the green light to weight bear but only part time. You gradually spend less and less time on the scooter/crutches. I diligently followed the Surgeon's instructions including the alphabet exercise (lift your leg to trace the letters of the alphabet in the air) and was prescribed support hose (to help with the swelling). I was only allowed to wear runners and had custom orthotics inserted into them. Good foot support would be 'forever' a requirement.
At the time, the surgeon didn't want me to go to physiotherapy (he had seen over zealous therapists ruin the work he had done creating even more problems for his patients) but I couldn't walk and was desperate. He gave me the okay but told me it's my job to protect my foot and that included telling the therapist to be extremely cautious with it! I found a great (and very experienced) physiotherapy therapist who did wonders for me.
At first my foot just wasn't moving properly, it was kind of flopping all over the place when I walked, it wasn't sitting correctly- I was walking on the side of my foot and I couldn't put weight on it. Plus my leg was thinner than my wrist due to atrophy. We did a regimen of heat/ice therapy, tens (electric pads) and strength building. He had me walking within a month (end of Oct) but It wasn't pretty. I continued physio therapy to the end of December. By then I had I great strut!! It was a Merry X-Mas indeed!
The surgeon had originally told me it would take a year to heal! I was hoping he was wrong. He wasn't kidding!
He also told me my days of wearing high heels would be over... that too proved to be correct. ( I ended up having to buy all new shoes anyhow.. my foot was now a half size bigger and would regularly swell to a full size bigger).
Standing for any length of time would cause painful throbbing. I needed to keep my foot up, continue taking anti- inflammatories and ice on a regular basis. But as time passed it seemed to improve and settle down. A year later I was still suffering but thankful that I was walking with no major complications.
A year and a half after the surgery, any walking caused pain in the bottom of my foot - the pad part (so professional?!- lol) just beneath my second toe felt like I was walking on a gumball?! Back into the surgeon I went. He said I could opt for a second surgery where they would shorten my second toe. He said often if they do that surgery the 'gumball' would move to the third or fourth toe.
I couldn't continue the way it was so I said yes to the second surgery. Again the same set of rules, but the timelines improved. No weightbearing 3 months ( I didn't have the severe side effects like the first surgery), physio for 3 months and swelling /ice/anti-inflammatories/elevation that helped my foot improve as the time past.
It's been a year since the second surgery. It still hurts and swells if I over do it, but I can now wear heals (not the killer ones I used too) but enough to make me feel beautiful and womanly again on the occasional night out! There are weeks on end when I don't even think about my foot! My scars are almost invisible - you have to look hard to see them).
It's been a 2 1/2+ year journey!! I will never be a hundred percent. I will never be totally pain free, and I take extra precautions protecting my foot, but I have my life back again!!! I am doing things that once seemed like impossibilities!!
My advice.... Follow the surgeons orders explicitly - even when you think your foot is strong enough to weight bear or walk on (and believe me you do reach that point).... don't do it!!
During one of my follow up appointments (after surgery #2) the doc and I were discussing the non-weight bearing issue, when he told me about one of his patients who didn't heed his advice. He had broken his ankle, didn't listen.. started weight bearing and walking on it before it was ready. An infection set in, and as a result, they were preparing to amputate!!
Give yourself the time to heal!! One year is a long time but it is nothing when you make it to the other side, enjoying the activities you thought were gone forever!!
I was terrified! I had had surgeries before but I was overwhelmed with the fear of having surgery affecting one of our most basic functions like walking on my foot! I feared I would never walk properly again - I just didn't know what to expect!
The surgery (beginning of July 2014) included screws, rods and a bone fusion. They fuse the bones together to create increased stability in severe dislocations. . was non-eventful but unfortunately I was one of the 'special ones' who experienced those 'side effects'. You know the things you over look on the paperwork when signing off on everything before you go into surgery!
Those side effects included massive swelling and horrible nerve pain. (The nerve runs down your leg/ankle and splays out to your toes right at the top of you foot). Again, I was terrified. I was doing everything right. Medication and RICE Therapy: Rest.. Compression.. Ice... Elevation. Yet it wasn't as expected. But I persevered and listened to the surgeon. The foot cast was not to come off and absolutely no weight bearing!!! He read me the riot act!! Absolutely no weight bearing!!! He said the bones in the foot are so small that with all the pins, rods and screws, you can easily re-break the bones, leaving nothing for the surgeon to work with. So I listened!
The nerve pain settled down after 3 months.. the swelling not so much.
The best thing I did for my sanity during those first four non-weight eating months was to rent a medical supply scooter that allows you to move around while you keep your knee/foot up. At first I couldn't use it that much because my foot would absolutely throb (it hangs foot down on the scooter) but over time it was a saving grace as it gave me the mobility I so missed. Much easier and safer than using crutches (I lost my balance on the crutches landing on my casted foot - surgeon rushed me in for X-rays- thank heavens everything was okay. But the fear!!! So not worth it!!)
The scooter made it easier to go to the washroom, get around the house and yes even outings to the grocery store!! You aren't totally independent.. you still need someone with you to load and unload the scooter and you still need your crutches, but it really is awesome! Getting off the couch was so incredible!! I even put a bike basket on the front to hold things like my water and cell phone!
After 4 'months (beginning of Oct) I was given the green light to weight bear but only part time. You gradually spend less and less time on the scooter/crutches. I diligently followed the Surgeon's instructions including the alphabet exercise (lift your leg to trace the letters of the alphabet in the air) and was prescribed support hose (to help with the swelling). I was only allowed to wear runners and had custom orthotics inserted into them. Good foot support would be 'forever' a requirement.
At the time, the surgeon didn't want me to go to physiotherapy (he had seen over zealous therapists ruin the work he had done creating even more problems for his patients) but I couldn't walk and was desperate. He gave me the okay but told me it's my job to protect my foot and that included telling the therapist to be extremely cautious with it! I found a great (and very experienced) physiotherapy therapist who did wonders for me.
At first my foot just wasn't moving properly, it was kind of flopping all over the place when I walked, it wasn't sitting correctly- I was walking on the side of my foot and I couldn't put weight on it. Plus my leg was thinner than my wrist due to atrophy. We did a regimen of heat/ice therapy, tens (electric pads) and strength building. He had me walking within a month (end of Oct) but It wasn't pretty. I continued physio therapy to the end of December. By then I had I great strut!! It was a Merry X-Mas indeed!
The surgeon had originally told me it would take a year to heal! I was hoping he was wrong. He wasn't kidding!
He also told me my days of wearing high heels would be over... that too proved to be correct. ( I ended up having to buy all new shoes anyhow.. my foot was now a half size bigger and would regularly swell to a full size bigger).
Standing for any length of time would cause painful throbbing. I needed to keep my foot up, continue taking anti- inflammatories and ice on a regular basis. But as time passed it seemed to improve and settle down. A year later I was still suffering but thankful that I was walking with no major complications.
A year and a half after the surgery, any walking caused pain in the bottom of my foot - the pad part (so professional?!- lol) just beneath my second toe felt like I was walking on a gumball?! Back into the surgeon I went. He said I could opt for a second surgery where they would shorten my second toe. He said often if they do that surgery the 'gumball' would move to the third or fourth toe.
I couldn't continue the way it was so I said yes to the second surgery. Again the same set of rules, but the timelines improved. No weightbearing 3 months ( I didn't have the severe side effects like the first surgery), physio for 3 months and swelling /ice/anti-inflammatories/elevation that helped my foot improve as the time past.
It's been a year since the second surgery. It still hurts and swells if I over do it, but I can now wear heals (not the killer ones I used too) but enough to make me feel beautiful and womanly again on the occasional night out! There are weeks on end when I don't even think about my foot! My scars are almost invisible - you have to look hard to see them).
It's been a 2 1/2+ year journey!! I will never be a hundred percent. I will never be totally pain free, and I take extra precautions protecting my foot, but I have my life back again!!! I am doing things that once seemed like impossibilities!!
My advice.... Follow the surgeons orders explicitly - even when you think your foot is strong enough to weight bear or walk on (and believe me you do reach that point).... don't do it!!
During one of my follow up appointments (after surgery #2) the doc and I were discussing the non-weight bearing issue, when he told me about one of his patients who didn't heed his advice. He had broken his ankle, didn't listen.. started weight bearing and walking on it before it was ready. An infection set in, and as a result, they were preparing to amputate!!
Give yourself the time to heal!! One year is a long time but it is nothing when you make it to the other side, enjoying the activities you thought were gone forever!!
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Just wondering I am 8 weeks into nwb at the moment have at least 4 more to go very frustrating. What does it feel like to put those first couple of steps down? I had orif no fusion.
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I am 27 I have a Liz franc dislocation I had surgery weeks ago they had to take a bone from my knee cause one of the bones in my foot was completely broken up I can move my toes just 2 week after Surgery and put little pressure on the heal of my foot but it hurts like he'll the screws I'm so ready for this to be over but I know this go be a long journey
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