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(racing fans). (round and round)Etc. I fractured mine earlier this year similar to yours. I highly recommend a wheelchair, electric heating pad, a very comfy pillow to sit on, and some ibuprofen. I made sure to get in a high calorie diet with lots of protein and calcium. I was walking and out of the wheelchair 4 weeks after the crash with discomfort.
I was riding at very low intensity by 6 or 7 weeks. I finally plan to start group rides/racing 4 months later. I do not want to risk complications from a second crash, so I decided to wait until everything was 100% healed.
I crashed Aug 11, 2009. Two fractures in pelvis, caused by my legs bending more than my (tight) muscles would stretch. Undiagnosed for 2 days as they thought I was just cramping, and I somehow hobbled into the car from the ER. Felt like someone stuck a sword into my insides from between my legs.Wheelchair for a while:There's a bone-knitting stage, where the bone grows back together, then the pain-goes-away stage, where the pain goes away.
For me the bone knitting took about 12 weeks, the pain-goes-away was something like 20 weeks. Both were at the end of the range the doctor said, like 'Oh, the bones will knit in 8-12 weeks' or 'the pain should dissipate in 15-20 weeks'.I wrote some stuff about it on my blog sprinterdellacasa, but basically I tried to ride in Sept at Interbike and really couldn't. I was riding okay by Nov 15th, when I did a 1000w effort to clear a narrow section of road (barriers, didn't want to impede traffic). By January I was 100%, residual pain was gone.I tried to ride when I felt like it but if it hurt I stopped. I know I'm just a Cat 3, nothing depended on me riding, and in fact the crash cost me a lot of money out of pocket, over $8k, so really it wasn't sensible to want to race again.Here's what I did instead of training. On Oct 12th I decided to diet, for real. By Dec I'd lost about 35 lbs, dropping from 183 to about 148 (I'm not quite 5'7').
To put things in perspective I had been about 190-200 lbs the prior winter/spring. I went up a bit to the mid 150s while training in Jan-Feb. The following season, in 2010, I had spectacular results, upgrading to Cat 2.I won't say I was a huge factor in this story but a local hot shot rider broke his pelvis, a bit differently. He asked me about my experience with the broken pelvis, apparently read some stuff I wrote. He turned things around and I think turned pro the following year - he's the guy that wore the Most Aggressive jersey for a few days in Tour of CA.Take your time, don't rush it, and think about next year.
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I had a non-displaced fracture of my left acetabulum last November. It sucked a lot; worse, it took a good month and a half to get a diagnosis as they didn't see the break on the X-ray at the ER. I didn't know what was wrong with me, but had all kinds of theories including a bruised illiosacral joint or a torn labrum.It's kind of hard to give a real guideline, because I've heard pretty varied stories of recovery. Some people with small, nondisplaced fractures are able to resume riding within a couple weeks. For me, though I was able to physically ride a bike short distances at low effort only a couple weeks later, it sucked a lot.
Started out okay, but quickly became very uncomfortable, and then I would ache for days. And just mounting the bike was very difficult. It took about a month, post-diagnosis, of healing, physical therapy and gentle easing-in to be able to do easy rides outside. Probably another month after that before I could contemplate resuming normal training.The process was probably more difficult psychologically than physically, to be honest.
Because I didn't know what was wrong and assumed at first I just had some musculo-skeletal injury that would resolve in a couple weeks, it was really disturbing to feel that I wasn't making any progress for a solid month. What felt initially like signs of progress and gave me optimism (like a ride I managed to do on New Year's Eve that felt pretty good) gave way to despair when I hurt for days afterword and subsequent rides I tried to go on were miserable. So knowing what you're up against from the start is a huge advantage. From my experience with broken bones: accept that you're in for a long and uncomfortable reality and don't get too carried away by the small improvements. Celebrate them, obviously, just don't think it means you're on a fast track. Expect it will be as long as your orthopedist says. No one heals bone quickly.
Good luck.
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