Anyone ever have a fibular stress fracture???

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From someone else who is wondering if I have the same thing going on. Started as a heel issue and now hurts lower outside of my leg.

Can fibular stress fractures assciociated with groin pain?

Are the symptoms for this sort of thing any different than for normal stress fractures? This has me a little worried because I've had to take the last few days off due to pain in the exact same area, and none of the symptoms for things the doctors and athletic trainers suggested (namely, muscle strain or tendonitis) or the things I saw online seemed to fit. However, my pain wasn't like what you typically hear about stress fractures. For at least a week, it only hurt when pressing on it, then finally showed up when running, but wasn't too bad so I tried to run through it a few more days. It didn't make it worse while actually running, but it did get worse when not running (to the touch, when turning the leg certain ways), so I had to take a little time off. A while ago the pain definitely seemed more like a muscle or even occasionally a nerve thing (shooting, kinda shocking pain down my leg). Now the nerve thing seems to have gone away and while the pain still seems to be in the muscle most of the time (certain non-weight-bearing motions like turning or lifting the leg certain ways make it feel painfully tight, almost in the way a cramp would feel), it also hurts to press on the bone. What's more, there now seems to be some bone-like pain on impact with each step when doing things like going down stairs. Hope I don't have a fibular stress fracture...

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I have the exact same symptoms (pain to the touch, when turning the leg a certain way, going down stairs)...going to the doc on Friday. What happened to you? Was it a fibula stress fracture? How long did it take you to start running again?

Yes I am very susceptible to fibula stress fractures and the same as everyone on this forum, physios always try to tell me that it is a tendinitis too. Never again! One time when I didn't know any better, I let a physio treat me for tendinitis peroneus brevis and all of the manipulation made it worse so I ended up seeing a sports physician who sent me for an MRI which came back that I had a GRADE 4 stress fracture to my fibula! It was bordering on snapping completely! I was so angry. I had to take 4 months off for it to heal! Needless to say I never went to that physio again. Now when I can feel a stress fracture coming on, I try and rest for a week, take calcium tablets daily and use my personal handheld ultrasound treatment machine on it every second day and it usually works to fix it up. Also, I see a sports massage specialist and let her know of my stress fracture and she releases all the muscles in my leg that could be causing tightness around the fibula without actually hurting my fibula and that helps alot too.

Just dug this up due to having the same symptoms (shooting pain up the outside of the legs originating just above the ankle, painful spot to touch etc.) but with one difference. My pain is awful when I wake up, but then fades slightly as I go about my day. As in, truly limping for the first few minutes, but after 15 minutes walking to work it's much, much less painful. Then If I sit down for 30 mins, painful again when standing.

Does that sound more like a stress fracture or tendinitis?

Bumping this because I had this injury a year ago I think and recently the same spot on my leg has been feeling a little "off" or like its tight or something. It doesn't hurt yet, but if anyone could offer advice on what to do that would be very helpful.

I'm 65 and returned to trail running four months ago, been doing 10m per week over 3 runs on average the past month but started to get pain just above the ankle on the outside of my foot a week ago. Tried to go on one run since but bailed about after 20 minutes as the discomfort was increasing. Local tenderness over the bone, no soft tissues at the site and not really any resolution after 4 days' rest, so I'm assuming the worst. Annoying as I'd signed up for my first race in mid September. Will rest and RICE and see how I go on. Frustrated because I have faced a whole series of minor injuries of late. I've been doing yoga for 10 years so I'm reasonably fit but I guess the ole' bones ain't up to it. I am guessing this is going to take a few months. :-(

This just happened to me ! I was diagnosed with peroneal tendinitis - X-rays were negative for fx. I just kept working , I'm a nurse so always on my feet. It got worse - swelling and pain along distal fib . Three weeks later I asked for an MRI. Guess what? Stress fx of distal fibula. Ugh! Hey, Thanks for all the sharing some here on this site ! I'm 62 years young and active and I plan on taking care of this thing NOW and the right way so I am not out of commission in the future .

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I have a 12 week old mid to lower shaft fibula stress fracture. I am a runner, biker, cyclist and am a Mom and PT so am up on my feet most of the day. I THOUGHT it was muscle/tendon relatred and THOUGHT "gosh it take my 50+ year old muscles and tendons a LONG time to heal...but after just getting an ultrasound image which exposed the stress fracture...I know what is going on.

PS I has an X ray at 3 weeks, and "everything looked good". And it DID-my shaft looked "pretty and smooth"...sometimes they do not show up on Xray until week 4-6...SO your Dr may advise you to come back if it does not show up earlier if you still have pain...and DO not take ibuprofen for the pain as it slows down the healing...ofcourse I DID take it as I thought it was soft tissue...Not taken to myself and I wanted to share that with others.

From experience: cross train with stationary bike and aqua jogging and weight training for first 2-3 weeks, then you can cycle outside and continue strength training for weeks 4-8. If painfree-start adding some walks for exercise (2-5 miles if painfree). I advise not starting walk/jog plan until after week 12. Take it SLOW the first couple of weeks, drop mileage to 1/3 of what you used to do then add as tolerated.

Me, I've just been diagnosed after pain since last July. Multiple physics said a peroneal tendon issue.

I had an mri in jan and have just seen a second ankle specialist dr after not being happy with the first. Mri shows I do have tendinitis/fluid round my tendon on my peroneal tendon but also a stress reaction/fracture at the bottom of my fibula.

I've been put in a plaster cast with two things in mind, to keep me resting /non weight bearing for 4 weeks. Was plastered with an inverted foot to rest the tendon as well, takes the strain off the tendon.

Consultant reckons he's got someone with a similar injury who 18 months on still isn't recovered and still isn't running. I am worried my running days are over.

Reading some of these posts with interest. I over pronate so my runnning shoes have a lot of arch support......could this overload my peroneal tendon? It sounds a possibility. Maybe I need neutral shoes!