Achilles tendon

chulipa
chulipa Posts: 650 Member
edited November 26 in Health and Weight Loss
Had surgery for my achilles at the heel on February 1 2018 and was wondering how long does it take for the pain to go away.

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  • 2aycocks
    2aycocks Posts: 415 Member
    At 3 months if you are still having considerable pain, go see your doctor. I'm not talking discomfort or soreness, but real pain.
  • chulipa
    chulipa Posts: 650 Member
    I have just recently seen the doctor but he just said wait and see achilles is a funny surgery and outcome can very. Im ok if I dont walk on it muchbut if i do it gets very sore
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    The problem with the achilles is that it has poor blood flow and you’re using it all the time :(

    I’ve never had achilles surgery, but I have had a damaged achilles and that sucker took literally years to heal up. Ultimately, what helped me most was three things:
    - Really good trainers. I spent a lot of money on gait analysis, and then bought the insoles and trainers the expert recommended. It was like magic.
    - Losing weight. Turned out that weighing 27 stone really was a problem, who knew?
    - Never pushing it. Sure, I ended up really restricted in my movements for a long time, but that beat constantly inflaming the tendon and damaging it more.

    All that is probably stuff you already know, but maybe it’ll help someone else.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I had achilles damage too - 3 months of negative eccentric heel drops, and rubbing massage method with metal tool I can't recall right now (very painful), from chiro (it was shown in study to have some small success).

    Those things with reduced amount of running (stopping probably would have healed quicker).

    So surgery at heel insertion point - going to take a while.
  • chulipa
    chulipa Posts: 650 Member
    Thanks
  • sytchequeen
    sytchequeen Posts: 526 Member
    There is a cream you can get which increases the bloodflow in the area and this encourages healing. I used it on my achilles. I'll google it for you.
  • sytchequeen
    sytchequeen Posts: 526 Member
    ok. It's this... I got it on prescription from the pain management clinic local to me in the UK. Maybe worth speaking with your doctor about similar.

    https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/capsaicin.html
  • chulipa
    chulipa Posts: 650 Member
    Ok thanks will check on it
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    That's a good cream, can also look for non-rx versions of it that can work really well too - it's just the hot stuff in peppers. Didn't realize they had such a high level that requires rx.
    Used to put hot pepper powder in bottom of socks before going out in winter and the increased blood flow and it's ability to bring on heat kept feet warm.
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