u/IrregularOrifice

Last time I posted to this subreddit, I was horrified about the concept of my roller skating ability being permanently altered.

I received very positive advice and support and have rode that pony into the sunset.

One week ago at physical therapy, I asked if we could work on step downs with my bad leg. I was frustrated about not being able to walk down stairs unless I was leading with the bad foot and going one step at a time.

TODAY, and all the credit to my physical therapy and purchasing supportive shoes, I just alternated my legs while going down the stairs (consistently) for the first time in MONTHS.

My injury date was April 1st. I bought Topo’s and have walked in those all week.

Today I was able to walk down stairs, regular.

It feels unreal and I did not have optimism that I’d reach this point so soon.
A lot of what you read will tell you “stairs are the final frontier for lisfranc recovery”

I want to be the one to tell you, single leg standing, toe flexibility work. Walking backwards up hills and/ or driveways.

You WILL walk down stairs sooner than expected.

I am a relatively healthy young man who’s pretty lightweight. Invest in toe spacers. Wear them for a while every day, walk in them.
Roll your foot out using a ball or roller.

You WILL WALK DOWN STAIRS.

I was so neurotic that I couldn’t even do a step down from a 6 inch platform without severe pelvic compensation. That was a week ago. Today I’ve walked down the stairs normally, Every time I’ve taken the stairs.

Toe flexibility is so vital to this process. Achilles flexibility. Quad and hamstring strength.

All of this can be achieved with very low demand, simple exercise. And it’s so worth it.

I thought it woulda taken me 6 months to walk down stairs with alternating legs. Here I am, 2.5 months post op, and I’m telling you, you CAN. YOU CAN.
BELIEEEEEEVE.

You know what they say, most people post about bad experiences, not good ones, so I felt inspired to share what could serve as reassurance to others in the future.

About a month ago I crushed my foot with a plant and roll lisfranc injury and shattered the upper knuckle tips on the cuneiform side of my metatarsals on toes 2,3 and 4. Also suffered a midfoot dislocation with a displacement greater than 2mm on toes 1 and 2, which means, foot no longer stable. Needed surgery.

Two weeks between injury and surgery,
I got a full fusion on Meta’s 1-3 and then 4 is just gonna hang on there and heal on his own. It’s been two weeks since then.

In that time I have accidentally put weight on my foot three times.
Twice pre surgery (ow)
Once post surgery (ow?)

Pre surgery 1 was on a set of carpeted stairs. Using crutches to hop up and fell back slightly before ascending the full step.

Stepped onto the toes of my splint and rocked back onto my midfoot enough to help balance me before being able to fully lift that foot off the ground and plant my good foot. It fuckin hurt.
For about 30, minutes.
That was all.

Pre-op 2 was my crutch slipped on a piece of fabric when I was swinging into the laundry room to take a piss (laundry room, 1/2 bathroom, combo, idk) and I bout fully planted before realizing, exclaiming, and doing a death drop onto my good leg that would’ve made the sassiest queen clutch her wig. Broken foot, dangling in the air above me. Also hurt. Fuckin.

For about 30 minutes.

Doctor confirmed today, that’s bout the threshold.

Of course your foot hurts, it’s broken.
Of course stepping on it is bad, it’s broken.
But not all accidental weight placements are end of the world.

So if it happens to you, get off the bad foot ASAP, naturally, drag yourself to get some ice, watch a show or something, and if it still hurts after 30. Wait another 15 cause people are dramatic.

After 15 more minutes, give your toes a squeeze to make sure the blood flow is good, and if nothing feels significantly more painful in a DIFFERENT way (youll know when you know.. I hope), you should be good.

Last time I put weight on my foot was when I spilled water all over my chest earlier right before I started making this post and I genuinely went to stand up off the couch with my shattered (but mechanically enhanced) foot. Did not work. Does not hurt.

I’m not a super heavy person, but, for the people who worry, give it 45 min before having a panic attack and googling “I accidentally stepped on my lisfranc foot, am I gonna need eighteen surgeries and a year off of work?”

Best of luck to all who are in the midst!

As the title suggests, I wonder if this is just a me thing or if there’s other medicated anxious people with extra songs in their hearts after popping a klonoppie.

So the post isn’t just a random throw-away, I’ll give some context. I have pretty intense ADHD / substance-use (nothing hard) related anxiety that was accentuated by a traumatic situation in the past year. After moving past the initial stages of that, It doesn’t necessarily plague me 24/7, but often impacts much of what I do and the choices I make in a more general way that I hadn’t really taken inventory of, before getting into therapy.

Some days I don’t feel too anxious at all.
Some days I’ll feel good and have a mundane trigger that’ll throw me into rampant overthinking and introspection.
Some days I’ll be filled with dread and a single nice interaction will give me something to smile about for the rest of the day. Just depends.

I’d been largely anti-medication after being prescribed with stimulants at a very young age for hyper-activity.
Pharmaceutical intervention led me to negatively view my mental in significant ways, develop poor dietary habits, and just overall neglect my general health as I grew up. I spiritually waved the “down with big pharma!” flag, just about every chance I got.

The ways that stimulants correlated with all of that had left me pretty cynical, and so I quit taking vyvanse before graduating high school.

Nearly 10 years later and the first meds I’ve taken that weren’t for a a fun time are 300mg Wellbutrin daily and .5mg Klon ‘as needed,’ but it was initially prescribed to help temper kratom withdrawals as I weened off that.

Now, sometimes when I drop a Klon Bomb I want to break out in song.

I have no musical background or classical training, so there’s no real internal bias or specific reason I’d be affected in this way.. so I’m just wondering, does klonopin make any of y’all kinda wanna sing? Sometimes? Maybe?