There’s a few factors here, how badly you sprained it, exactly what parts of your ankle are injured and how they’re injured, your age, genetics, fitness level, diet, pain tolerance, how active you are, etc.
Some very minor sprains can pretty much just be walked off and you can continue life as usual with just some minor discomfort and no one but you would ever know you’re injured. Other more sever sprains can take weeks or months, if it turns out that something is torn it may even require surgery.
Somehow, I’ve avoided significantly spraining my ankle, which is a small miracle for someone who hikes as much as I do, never had anything I couldn’t just walk off and be back to 100% in a couple days, but I have sprained my knee pretty badly, and I was pretty much out of commission for a week hobbling around on crutches with my leg immobilized, then a few more weeks limping around with a cane, after that I was able to get around normally but I could tell that my knee wasn’t quite right for probably about a year afterwards, and now even about a decade down the line, sometimes when the weather is just wrong and I’ve been using my knee in certain ways, I can still kind of feel echoes of that injury, not that it hurts i can just feel that its not quite the same as it was.
There’s a few factors here, how badly you sprained it, exactly what parts of your ankle are injured and how they’re injured, your age, genetics, fitness level, diet, pain tolerance, how active you are, etc.
Some very minor sprains can pretty much just be walked off and you can continue life as usual with just some minor discomfort and no one but you would ever know you’re injured. Other more sever sprains can take weeks or months, if it turns out that something is torn it may even require surgery.
Somehow, I’ve avoided significantly spraining my ankle, which is a small miracle for someone who hikes as much as I do, never had anything I couldn’t just walk off and be back to 100% in a couple days, but I have sprained my knee pretty badly, and I was pretty much out of commission for a week hobbling around on crutches with my leg immobilized, then a few more weeks limping around with a cane, after that I was able to get around normally but I could tell that my knee wasn’t quite right for probably about a year afterwards, and now even about a decade down the line, sometimes when the weather is just wrong and I’ve been using my knee in certain ways, I can still kind of feel echoes of that injury, not that it hurts i can just feel that its not quite the same as it was.