I was here about about a month or so ago b/c I was dx'ed with a upper tibial stress fracture. I stopped my running all together and have gone thru the process of waiting to get into a busy ortho dr. He acted as though a stress fracture was totally boring for him to talk about. He didn't see why I needed to stop doing anything out of ordinary ( including running!)
The intern working with him talked with this dr in the hall ( I could hear him) about how strongly he felt that I needed more progressive care, and I was put into an aircast, with no other instruction but to come back in two weeks.

2 weeks later he takes me out of the aircast despite still feeling a lot of pain.Then squeezes the fracture spot, making me YELP in pain and says " I WONDER WHAT THE PROBLEM IS". what??
I get an MRI.....the mri (another 10 days of waiting to see the results )shows my fracture line with thickening around it. I could clearly see the fracture line, yet he says " You can run now, your stress reaction is healing".

What? I was dx'ed with a stress fracture by 2 different dr's who read my bone scan. Yet he refused to treat me for a stress fracture and I have wasted 6 weeks of waiting for this man to help me in some way. He came highly recommended.

So I did run for the1st time since August, just 2 measly miles, and yep my upper tibia hurts.
This guy gave no instruction on HOW to come back to running ...nothing.

What type of dr. should I look for if I decide to seek a 2nd opinion and would YOU seek one or just leave it alone and try to jog ( Am I being too paranoid?)
I just want to HEAL and I would like to be pointed in the right direction!!!
Thanks for hearing me out!