OTB Medical Personnel - Woke up with severe ankle pain

Probably just slept on it wrong. Happens to my wrists sometimes, I'll sleep with my hands curled up underneath my chin and when I wake up my wrists are stiff and they hurt for a few hours.

Did you listen to redneck music last night? God has been known to inflict pain upon those who do.

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Maybe a real doctor can answer you (you might have better luck on the OT)

Maybe twisted it in the covers when you were sleeping and made it worse?

I would keep an eye on the red spot. If it gets any bigger or starts to change color, get hot, etc I'd go and get it checked out. And make sure you alternate the ice and keep it elevated. If you just accidentally twisted it in your sleep then it should begin to feel better throughout the day. If it doesn't and you get up tomorrow and you still can't put weight on it I'd get it checked out.

I normally wear flip flops all the time, but I lost them two weeks ago, so my Sperry's have been what I've been wearing a lot over those two weeks.

HERE'S MY GUESS:

I've had this happen.

You're probably overcaffeinated, underhydrated a little, too.

The plantar muscle (bottom of your foot, which forms the "arch") is likely all tightened up.

You switching shoes probably put a new stress on how you pronate/supinate. Over the past couple of weeks, that led you to rotate either inward or outward (depending on which side of your ankle the pain is now on) more than usual, pinching a nerve.

The plantar being tightened up exacerbates it.

What a doctor will do is prescribe stretching for your plantar. Mine massaged it, and actually prescribed me to fill a tub with hot water and roll a can of beans or something similar back and forth, with my foot, to stretch the plantar.

You might also get some quick relief by grabbing some cheap arch supports from Walgreens or somewhere else.

A doctor will stretch you, and prescribe those types stretches, and likely tell you to get some arch supports to relief the over supination/pronation that is pinching the nerve.

If you have someone who can do a "tape job" on your ankle and arch, the doctor always does that, too. To keep the ankle from supinating or pronating, so the nerve inflammation can go down.

One of the main things my podiatrist prescribed for me, other than what I described, is literally just pointing my toes up and then seeing how far I can push them towards my knees. Stretches the arch of the foot, and calf. He recommended holding that for 30 seconds, which is a long damned time.

The taping up the ankle by someone who knew what they were doing and could stabilize the joint immediately took the pain away.

Yeah I wish I had someone here that could correctly tape up an ankle. I'm doing the toe pointing thing, and this. shite. hurts.

Will do. I don't think it's a bite, but then again I really don't know what it is. Going to try wmr's suggestions for the next 12 hours or so in hopes that it improves, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for redness.