Healing Swollen Ankles?

Thanks. I tried elevating them while I slept less night, and the swelling has gone down quite a bit. I still don't have normal ankles, but they're not as big. Luckily just standing on them doesn't seem to hurt. Walking is okay too. Just as long as I'm not walking down stairs. Today I'm stuck standing all day, but I won't be restraining any sea lions since I won't be able to catch them without running after them.

I'm always afraid to take anything that will make the pain go away. If the pain is gone, I will just end up hurting myself more by overusing the ankles. But there really isn't that much pain, mostly just swelling. I attached a photo so that you can see how bad the swelling is. Keep in mind those are men's sandals so they are much wider to accommodate my huge ankle. I normally have a tiny ankle so that you can actually see the bone sticking out.

I definitely need to learn some ankle warm ups. I do stretches for my tendons before and after I run, but I never thought about my ankles being such a problem. I'll definitely have to add those in immediately. The swelling has gone down a bit, but I'm still not sure if I'm running tomorrow or not.

Well it definately looks like you need to take an anti-inflmatory for that. If the swelling does not go down you should go see your doctor.

Thankfully the swelling is finally down. I think my ankles might still not be back to normal size, but the bone shows through once again and I'm no longer in pain. So this week I'll be running for two days out of the week again. I'll wait awhile to add in the third day a week that I used to run.

LOL! I hope I'll be as strong as an ox eventually. Someone in the running group tried to convince me that what didn't kill me would just make me stronger.

I am barefoot most of the time too. Even at work now because I usually just take off my shoes under my desk. And now I have dress socks with toes! So I even wiggle my toes around. Despite moving my ankles around a lot though, apparently they weren't as strong as I had hoped. I'm thinking once they get a bit better, the Wii will help them out too though, it has balance board activities. But for now, I'll stick to the ice and raised ankles.

Tomorrow I'm going swimming for awhile just to do something. But with me, swimming is more like flopping around a bit in the pool. I can only barely swim.