ankle pain when beginning run, but goes away

[Marcus Holmes]

A couple weeks ago while I was visiting the beach, I did
something to my right ankle to make it pretty sore. I
noticed it during a 5 mile run. The pain got so bad I had to
stop and walk the last 3 miles. Might have been the sand,
might have been a fluke thing, I'm not sure.

Originally it hurt to even walk. I took a good 2 weeks off
and slowly I went to walking without pain and then to being
able to rotate my ankle with only slight pain. I've also
iced quite a bit.

A couple days ago I decided to try running again to see how
I'm doing. I've run the past two days and both times the
same thing: the ankle is a little tender the first mile or
so but then it clears up and I'm fine. When I get back from
the run I can even rotate it with no pain whatsoever..
almost as if running loosens it up and it all turns out ok.

Any thoughts on what this might mean? Should I continue to
take it easy or continue to run with the help of some
ibuprofen or something to help? I've been icing each time
I get back.

Thanks for the help!

[Trojan]

Marcus Holmes <mholmes@theworld.com> wrote in message news:<c9sv8o$hkt$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> A couple weeks ago while I was visiting the beach, I did
> something to my right ankle to make it pretty sore. I
> noticed it during a 5 mile run. The pain got so bad I had
> to stop and walk the last 3 miles. Might have been the
> sand, might have been a fluke thing, I'm not sure.
>
> Originally it hurt to even walk. I took a good 2 weeks off
> and slowly I went to walking without pain and then to
> being able to rotate my ankle with only slight pain. I've
> also iced quite a bit.
>
> A couple days ago I decided to try running again to see
> how I'm doing. I've run the past two days and both times
> the same thing: the ankle is a little tender the first
> mile or so but then it clears up and I'm fine. When I get
> back from the run I can even rotate it with no pain
> whatsoever.. almost as if running loosens it up and it all
> turns out ok.
>
> Any thoughts on what this might mean? Should I continue to
> take it easy or continue to run with the help of some
> ibuprofen or something to help? I've been icing each time
> I get back.
>
>
> Thanks for the help!

I've been having a similar issue with my right knee. I run
around my neighborhood and the pain in my knee is almost
debilitating - sometimes I'm running with a limp - but the
pain disappears after about 2 city blocks. I don't have a
definitive answer for you, but my assumption is that once
the joint gets loosened up and the blood gets flowing to the
tissue in/around the joint, the pain disappears. I don't
know if there will be any long-term effects, though.

~Trojan

[Harry]

Sometimes those kinds of pains are tendonitis, that is its
hallmark. Another sure sign is if the pain is there when you
get up in the morning but gone after you move around. The
evil thing about tendonitis is that by the time it gets bad,
it takes forever to get better.

"Trojan" <morgasaurus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Marcus Holmes <mholmes@theworld.com> wrote in message
news:<c9sv8o$hkt$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> > A couple weeks ago while I was visiting the beach, I did
> > something to my right ankle to make it pretty sore. I
> > noticed it during a 5 mile run.
The
> > pain got so bad I had to stop and walk the last 3 miles.
> > Might have been the sand, might have been a fluke thing,
> > I'm not sure.
> >
> > Originally it hurt to even walk. I took a good 2 weeks
> > off and slowly I went to walking without pain and then
> > to being able to rotate my ankle
with
> > only slight pain. I've also iced quite a bit.
> >
> > A couple days ago I decided to try running again to see
> > how I'm doing.
I've
> > run the past two days and both times the same thing: the
> > ankle is a
little
> > tender the first mile or so but then it clears up and
> > I'm fine. When I
get
> > back from the run I can even rotate it with no pain
> > whatsoever.. almost
as
> > if running loosens it up and it all turns out ok.
> >
> > Any thoughts on what this might mean? Should I continue
> > to take it easy
or
> > continue to run with the help of some ibuprofen or
> > something to help?
I've
> > been icing each time I get back.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
>
> I've been having a similar issue with my right knee. I run
> around my neighborhood and the pain in my knee is almost
> debilitating - sometimes I'm running with a limp - but the
> pain disappears after about 2 city blocks. I don't have a
> definitive answer for you, but my assumption is that once
> the joint gets loosened up and the blood gets flowing to
> the tissue in/around the joint, the pain disappears. I
> don't know if there will be any long-term effects, though.
>
> ~Trojan