Is severe pain common after a leg cast removal?

Pain = yes
Stabbing pain = No

Go back to the doctor.

definately talk to the orthopedist (or whoever put you in the wheelchair).

i’m gonna guess the muscles in you foot are weak from not using them (deconditioned). but the opinion of an expert is required.

You are using your muscles again!! Stretching them out can be very painful. Also the ligaments are moving again. When I had my leg cast off I had sharp shooting pains on the inside of my thigh for about 3 days.

I spent one month in a leg cast… after that I needed two years of physio just to walk without cruches…I felt plently of pain when the doctor told me to walk home without warning me that I needed cruches…I never made it two feet…

Your foot is not properly healed. Go back to the doctor and ask for further treatment.

Sounds like a heel spur or plantar fascitis. But of course I’m not a doc and I don’t even play one on tv. Perhaps it is time to give them a call. Sometimes a nurse can speak to you on the phone. Your physical therapist might also know the answer.

Yes, that sounds like my experience. I was in a cast up to the top of my thigh for 4mths after I snapped my shinebone & cracked my knee cap. When the cast was eventually taken off I experienced alot of pain for…. well, years. It was at least a year before I could walk properly on it, probably took 4 mths before I could take my weight without crutches. The bloody thing still plays up every now’n’then & it’s 23yrs later.