Intermittent Ankle Pain--Ideas?

britzzie

I was treadmill running for months with no injuries. Then I began Insanity and started having trouble with my left ankle. I would have shooting pain that I would rate 7/10 during and sometimes after working out. I never worked through the pain for fear that I would do more damage. Finally, I decided not to finish the program since it seemed to be so hard on my ankle. In order to rest my ankle, I took two weeks off from high impact workouts and just started back with lifting and HIIT a week ago.

My ankle is still tweaked, but it happens at such weird times that I don't know what's up. Here's a great example: This weekend, I'm walking and suddenly I have shooting pain in my ankle so bad that my boyfriend has to help me hobble to a bench to sit down. I try to stretch it out and put weight on it, but it still hurts. The stretching doesn't hurt it, just the weight. So I just chill there for a few minutes. Then I go to put weight on it and it's fine. Like nothing ever happened. An hour later, I'm playing sand volleyball--jumping, running, diving--the whole bit. No pain. This has happened over and over. And not just since I started working out again.

I know I should probably see the doc...but that will be incredibly expensive for me. I'm just hoping I can get some tried and true ideas for an at home fix. Anybody have this happen to them before? What was the deal? How did you fix it?

ninerbuff

I was treadmill running for months with no injuries. Then I began Insanity and started having trouble with my left ankle. I would have shooting pain that I would rate 7/10 during and sometimes after working out. I never worked through the pain for fear that I would do more damage. Finally, I decided not to finish the program since it seemed to be so hard on my ankle. In order to rest my ankle, I took two weeks off from high impact workouts and just started back with lifting and HIIT a week ago.

My ankle is still tweaked, but it happens at such weird times that I don't know what's up. Here's a great example: This weekend, I'm walking and suddenly I have shooting pain in my ankle so bad that my boyfriend has to help me hobble to a bench to sit down. I try to stretch it out and put weight on it, but it still hurts. The stretching doesn't hurt it, just the weight. So I just chill there for a few minutes. Then I go to put weight on it and it's fine. Like nothing ever happened. An hour later, I'm playing sand volleyball--jumping, running, diving--the whole bit. No pain. This has happened over and over. And not just since I started working out again.

I know I should probably see the doc...but that will be incredibly expensive for me. I'm just hoping I can get some tried and true ideas for an at home fix. Anybody have this happen to them before? What was the deal? How did you fix it?

Ankles are complicated to completely diagnose because of how many bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments that are involved. Here are some possibilities and you should try to self diagnose them based on symptoms you're suffering from:

Achilles tendinitis
Achilles tendon rupture
Avulsion fracture
Bone spurs
Broken ankle/broken foot
Bursitis
Gout
Osteoarthritis
Pseudogout
Reactive arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Septic arthritis
Sprained ankle
Sprains and strains
Stress fractures
Tarsal tunnel syndrome

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britzzie

Thanks! Yea...this is sort of what I got when I tried to Google "intermittent ankle pain."

Sort of hoping to find someone who has had a similar issue....

Bueller??

britzzie

bump!