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I'm still experiencing pain,tingling,pins & needles & burning from a 5th metatarsal spiral fracture 4mths from injury date. pain in ankle + fibula als?
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Nerve Injury: The sharp end of the fracture could have injured the nerve supplying the area. It might take long time to recover depending on the severity of injury and in some cases it might never recover You might need to discuss it with your doctor for treatment options to relieve the discomfort
Answered 3/21/2017
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Delayed healing.: All your symptoms are subjective in nature. I think knowing objective symptoms such as swelling, angular deformity or discoloring might contribute to understand just what the problem is. Fifth metatarsal fractures are not the easiest to heal even under perfect circumstances. Radio-graphic evaluation might be needed to see if there is a delayed healing of the bone or just a post fracture neuritis.
Answered 3/21/2017
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