Have you ever fractured your heel?

[Verbena17]

Hi,
Has anyone ever fractured their heel? I don’t mean a huge crack type break, I mean maybe a hairline fracture?

If yes, can you describe if you felt pain, or was there no pain?
What were you able to do and how did you help it heal (pardon the pun)?

You can stress fracture your calcaneum. Trauma related fractures usually involve some force, such as a fall from height and shatter it. Which is serious and you would know about it, be unable to weight bear etc.

Dd has done this, you would definitely know about it. It was hard to spot on an X-ray though, took 3 to finally find it, she was convinced it was broken but was told several times it was a sprain. Dd did this 4 months ago and is still struggling to walk on it.

The tricky thing is I’ve never had a broken bone or stress fracture so have no idea what that pain would feel like.
I’ve had this pain (and agony for much of the time to weight bear) for about 3 or so months. But even after physio, it isn’t improving.

I watched a video the other week where a consultant showed someone’s X-ray with the fracture and all they had done was to step too heavily on the pavement. She had fractured her heel and could still weight bare without pain.

Ive now got an appt to see an ortho consultant next week so hopefully that will show what it is or isn’t but I just wanted to ask, as I know it’s not a common fracture. Hoping for an MRI as that would show both fractures and if it isn’t that, would show inflammation of the tissue etc and save me having an X-ray.

Can I ask how your DD fractured her’s?

@Verbena17 she was at that bloody stupid ninja warrior place, had been there for less than 5 mins, was told to walk along a plank but wasn't told it would move so it took her by surprise, I think she lost her footing and slammed her her heel down, had a very nasty sprain too. When they finally discovered the fracture she was told it wasn't a common fracture and was something they usually see in people who burgle houses and who jump from out of windows!

@doneandone gosh that’s really awful, blew her! Has she worn a boot to keep the foot from moving or a cast? I hope she recovers soon.

@Verbena17 thanks
she had a boot on for about 4/5 weeks and was then encouraged to walk on it as much as she could without the boot, she's having physio and doesn't wear it at all now but her foot is still swollen and she can't walk on it for long periods which makes it tricky as she's at uni and has to walk/bus a lot to get to uni and work.

@doneandone that post above was meant to say ‘bless her’, not ‘blew her’!.
Yes, it must be very tricky needing to walk so much to and from uni.