I read an article recently that said some biologicis, including enbrel, may impact immune system response less than once thought of before and that some doctors are actually having patients stay on their biologics during surgery.

Not sure why you would stop enbrel for a sprained ankle unless it was also infected.

I don't want to discourage you, but I fractured my ankle and the bones in my foot last January 1. X-rays say that the bones have healed but the ankle is very weak. I still wear a brace on it to keep from injuring it again. I wasn't taking Embrel, so i can't address that issue. Hope you feel better soon.

I was on Enbrel for 1 1/2 years and felt really good. Told rheumy that I thought I was in remission. So I cut enbrel back to every nine days to see how I would do. Did okay for a few months and then when I took the enbrel shot I had a horrendous itching for several days. Pharmacist said that I had built up antibodies against enbrel. Had to quit taking enbrel (which might have worked if I had stayed on it) and after five months of progressing severe pain all over my body and three months of newly tried Cimzia not doing anything, am on prednisone and trying to take enbrel again.

I put my body almost back to where it was in beginning of RA . I would not get off enbrel unless my doctor told me to your body might also build antibodies against enbrel because there is too much time between injections and the RA will return bigtime.

You only have to cut back on a biologic if you have an infection.
Sue

I just slammed my finger in the car door and also fractured it, and still taking my Enbrel Shots. The only time you have to get off enbrel according to my dr. is when you're taking Antibiotics, or you have an Infection. So i am not sure why you stopped it.

I think it was because I just felt so unwell, and I was supposed to inject my left thight and my left ankle was all swollen. I will get in touch with my Dr. on Monday, and hopefully get back on schedule.

I hope you ankle improves quickly. I hope you are also icing it, elevating, staying off of it, and if necessary, taking NSAIDs.

I also suggest trying to inject enbrel in your belly fat -- that has made all the difference for me.

Have you had your ankle in any kind of support?
Last fall, I rolled my ankle on a stone and ended up with a grade III sprain (=tore a whole bunch of crap in my ankle). Started w/ an air cast for the er. Then a lace up splint at my first ortho appt, then that weekend it swelled up three times its normal size and I developed pitting edema in my foot. My childhood best friend manages an ortho office (and is an athletic trainer with a master's in exercise science) and was livid that they hadn't put me in a boot. Gave me a whole bunch of stuff to do/look for over the weekend.
Monday, I called the ortho office and they scheduled me to see a nurse for a boot.
Started PT three weeks later. They agreed the boot is the best thing, because the pressure that you apply, when you fill it up with air, helps control swelling and keeps blood flow to the area. Since connective tissue heals much slower than bone, sprains often take much longer to heal.
I was in PT for 5 weeks, in the boot for 5.

@Rosie they seem adamant no boot that the brace I got from the drugstore will suffice granted I feel like a sledgehamme is taken to iit in the middle of the night They seem almost lacadazical in treating it saying oh it is grade 2 sparin almost u will be fine. I am going to PT tomorrow hopefully this will avail some releif. Thanks for ur input, Erica