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Hi, my name is Denise and I’m 46 years old. I am from the US. I have a genetic condition called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which makes me prone to injury, especially soft tissue injuries, and I am 11 days post op from a revision peroneal tendon surgery. Tomorrow afternoon is my first post op appointment and I will find out if I can start bearing some weight yet. Last year I was non weight bearing for 8 weeks.

I had a second opinion this July at 9 months post op from my first surgery after I twisted my ankle in my brace and the pain I had been complaining about getting worse each month was at the worst it ever got to up until my second surgery 11 days ago.

My current surgeon took me seriously from the first appointment and ordered an MRI right off the bat and after the MRI came back a bit unclear as to whether I had another tear in the peroneal brevis tendon or whether it was just surgical changes, he ordered a dynamic ultrasound to settle the issue and he took a closer look at the MRI and declared that he was pretty sure I had another tear. And I did.

I also had an Internal Brace that was causing some issues and that was removed during my revision. I had a low lying muscle belly that I believe was causing some crowding of the tendons. I might not be getting all of this right, so I will upload a copy of the operative report.

Anyway that’s my story, at least the gist of it.