Hiya,

   I'm not a doctor but I can tell ya to relax a bit and not get too
worried. You've been out of a cast for 7 months and heel bones are
notoriously hard to heal. If it were RSD you'd know it since RDS is so
severely painful as to not be possible to ignore.

   It took you a bit of time to get muscle size and function back...it
takes longer to regrow the bone that you didn't grow while you healed.

   I wouldn't count too much on what the radiologist has to say...they
aren't really bone docs, but rather bone readers, instead.

   The PT should help you pack bone mass back on. Give it time and get
rechecked in six months or so. You might want to ask for a bone scan at that
time if your insurance will let you have one at your young age .<g>  The
bone scan is tons more accurate at determining how much bone you have and
have not than any CT scan can be.

HTH!

Hugs from Rosie

smartie-pants!<grinning like a proud mama>  good answer, rosie.

i think i would also add that a radiologist's reportings are simply aids to
a doctor in diagnosing a film's indications.  but radiologists are not and
should not presume to be diagnosticians, because they don't possess the
other pertinent/relevant clinical information that the doctor does have,
like hands-on (and other sensory--what the doctor sees, smells and hears)
clinical evalutions, information from the patient, labwork, health histories
and etc.  these are all pieces the puzzle to be used to assemble them into a
reliable diagnosis.
kate