I know if one part of us hurts we may compensate by leaning on the 'better' leg or foot or whatever and can throw everything off alignment. And like you say other body parts begin to hurt. And of course there is that possibility that other joints can be effected by arthritis too. Hopefully that isn't your case and perhaps it's just the muscles in your back and hip that are being strained more.

I hope you can find some relief for your ankle. foot./ankle soak. Epsom salt? Ice or heat.

I have arthritis in many of my joints including ankles. I exercise my ankles when I take hot baths. I try and rotate them, but the movement is limited. I try and wiggle foot side to side. I pump them up and down and in physical therapy they told me to do the letters of the alphabet with my foot. My right ankle has more flexibility than my left. They both hurt so I do understand how it is.
Hope you have better days.

Thanks naturegirl. I feel better than I did a few days ago. I think that could be my problem.I have my bands and I do the exercises from PT. I was in it for about three months earlier in the year because of tendonitis, arthritis, and plantar fasciitis at the same time. And then I got tendonitis in my shin too.

I've had hip problems off and on more over the past few year. I think this winter has been worse for some reason or it could be because the arthritis has progressed to the point where I'm going to feel it more. I have had more ankle problems and foot problems this year so my walking has been affected off and on by it. I use ice a lot when it's flaring and that helps. It's just when my hips starting getting achey more I started thinking about arthritis too in the back of my mind. I already have a suspect right knee that I was told probably have osteo so I guess it's an increased risk that I will just have to keep in mind and try to reduce the stress and the load by losing more weight.

Thanks again.

yes i had hip pain now i notice so improvement since had both knees replaced and dont limp so althoug there is arthritis in my hips most of pain was from limping
good luck healing hugs

That is good to hear you are doing a little better. I know how it is. we can have good days and then bad.

I forgot to mention that I had a lot of hip pain before I had my knees done and my rheumatologist insisted that it was BURSITIS and said that physical therapy would help and he said after my knee surgery the hip pain would ease up. He didn't order x-rays. He was sure it was bursitis by what I had explained.

Well I had the knee surgery and and the hip pain has eased up quite a bit. It is nothing like it was so the knees really effected a lot for me and it seems my doc was right.

so perhaps the pain you have is BURSITIS. It the pain is more on the outside of your hips and buttock area that is a possibility. My pain was deep in there and I just couldn't get comfy at times. sitting, standing. It really was painful. Bursitis can be very painful. It seems that hip arthritis you would get pain in the inside in the groin area too and I didn't really have that.

Thanks. I've had Bursitis in my hips before and at first I though it might be that too. I'm just glad that it let up because today the tendon on the side of my ankle is giving me grief and I didn't need that too. But since I'm off this long weekend I'm going to rest up so I can be good to go on Tuesday. I think sometimes get so busy that I keep going and going until I get reminded that I can only do so much before I need to take a break. Thanks again everyone and have a Happy New Year.