Possible Tibia Stress fracture?? help

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I'm currently on week 5 of recovery. The tell tale sign is pain at night. I didn't have pain while running until the 4th week of feeling pain at night. Once I couldn't run, I decided to go in. Xray one showed nothing. Xray #2, two weeks later showed slight shadowing. MRI was ordered, confirmed fracture. Cause supposedly by over pronation.

Honestly, had I just taken a few weeks off when I started feeling the pain at night I would be fine now. There isn't much you can do to heal it other than rest.

Someone did mention some sort of platelet injection, but I don't want to pay for it.

I never had any pain at night, is that a good sign then?

Thanks

Did a workout today, 6x800m repeats, didn't really feel pain in the shin, but I could feel it. Been icing it.

My foot has been hurting too after the workout. Kind of strange. Hopefully it's nothing.

Posterior tibial tendonitis and/or posterior tibialis tear.

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Posterior tibial tendonitis and/or posterior tibialis tear.

It's not PTT.

Pain on the shin bone a few inches up from the ankle is one of two things (well three actually): shin splints or a tibial stress reaction/fracture. Generally you hope it's the former, and a mild case at that. You can 'work through' mild to moderate cases of shin splints, sometimes. Severe cases, and stress reactions/fractures, require time off to heal. Bummer. Only way to detect them is with an MRI or bone scan, X-ray is worthless. Pretty sure the only reasons doctors even bother anymore are 1) because they can bill for it and 2) to rule out the once-in-a-career case of bone cancer.

Oh and stop taking the anti-inflammatories, they inhibit bone healing (and shin splints are a bone injury too).

Ran for 20 minutes today. My shin was bothering me while I was just walking around today and it hurt for the most part of the run but kind of died down towards the end. I'm still icing it. What do you guys think it is? Because it has a lot of the same symptoms as a stress fracture but at the same time it doesn't really add up because I can normally walk and hop on it. Is it just a weird case of shin splints?

Also, I thought PTT was on the tendon, not the bone itself

If it hurts walking around, do yourself a big favour and stop training right away.

15mins easy jogging on grass maximum. Give yourself 10 days of that then reassess.

That's what I tell myself...but I have cross season

I had mild to moderate discomfort and decided to run through it. Five days later, my tibia gave up. By then, what I need to figure out was how to get from my bedroom to kitchen and came back. Stop now, you may still save your season.

Did you get a stress fracture? Because if mine is, my season is done for anyways. So might as well get in a race or two.

But if my shin pain responds well to ice and NSAIDs, then it must be muscle or tissue related, correct?

I started having the same issue after a really good tempo, and should have stopped at first sign of pain. Feeling so good as I was rounding into good shape, I ignored it for a few days and ran through it. After it started hurting just walking around, I knew it was not a good sign and am now going to bike for the next few weeks.

This will be my fourth SF and really not sure what I'm doing wrong. I built up mileage and workouts slowly, but just seem to be weak in this area of my body (I keep getting them in my pelvic area). The one thing that I remember from previous experience is exactly what previous poster mentioned, the pain is the worst in bed at night. Does anybody know why this is the case?

I have an appointment with Doctor, but almost feel it's a waste of time. There is not much they can do except tell you to take 90 days off. I guess it's best to follow up with Doc to get a definitive answer (really hoping it could just be a Stress Reaction).

Good luck

Yes, I had a very bad stress fracture confirmed by MRI. There is difference between stress reaction and stress fracture. If you had stress reaction, you may only need 2-3 weeks off. Stress fracture needs 8-12 weeks off or longer. Ice and NSAIDs work very well to mask the pain at the early stage. But if you run through it, you will get stress fracture soon. I took pain killer before a race and the tibia broke after a couple of miles. It’s almost a complete fracture.

Tibial stress fracture usually only needs 6-8 weeks off unless you're a total idiot about it, which by the sounds of this thread a lot of people are.

Not all tibial stress fractures are the same. It depends on the individuals.

The pain has now shifted up from the edge of the shin bone to the actually flat inside part. The pain is now like along 1-2 inches and if I run my finger on that part while pressing down and I can feel bumps along it that "pop". Instead of being localized pain to one small part like it was before it is along the shin in a different part

Could the bumps be a calcium buid up or scar tissue or just inflammation?

Anyone? Also I forgot to mention I have been doing shin strengthening exercises and those seem to be helping.