First week of October I had xray number 5. Things continued
to improve, and I was allowed to go 50% weight bearing and use the static cycle
with virtually no resistance.
At this point, my first warning sign happened. Reintroducing
weight bearing wasn’t straightforward. I had experienced no pain for nearly
month, yet the return to weight bearing and static cycling (again, very
carefully) made my deep groin ache – not sharp, but a noticeable 1 or 2 on the
1 – 20 scale. I couldn’t find any
threads on the blogs about the normalcy during this phase. Was achiness normal?
Was this a sign of stressing the fracture? I panicked after a few days of this
and requested yet another xray (number 6 – which leads me to wonder about
radiation issues down the road!). The xray still showed improvement, with the
tension side nearly healed and compression side also looking good – with the
exception of a small bone cyst right in the area of the former crack!).
Matt assured me that this would likely heal on its own, with
the cyst reabsorbing in time. It may be that my reintroduction simply stressed
the bone enough to accumulate a little fluid within. There was no way to know
if the ache was caused by the cyst or if it was simply a correlation.
Regardless, the ache was present. It
would begin in the morning when I started to move about and remain throughout
the day. It would go away when I went to bed.
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