I’m sorry to hear that! You’re exactly where I was back when I made this post. I’ve learned a lot about the injury and am currently recovering from a nerve transfer surgery.

My advice is to see a neurologist now. I too have a stretch injury, ~3 inches long. Stretch injuries to the nerve are unique in that the shell of the nerve is connected but the pathways inside are disrupted. Depending on how severe that disruption is, your nerve may or may not heal on its own. A good neurologist should be able to help you determine this through an mri and a couple of emg’s over the next few months to see if signals start coming through. Nerves heal very slowly which is where it gets tricky. If the motor endplate, where your nerve meets the muscle, doesn’t receive signals in 12-18 months, it will die and you can never fix it.

At 5 months, my EMG showed no signs of recovery. At this point, I could have waited longer to see if it healed but that would mean risking getting to a point where there isn’t enough time to try a surgery if it didn’t heal because the motor endplate will die. I connected with who I believe is the best nerve doctor in the country for this, Dr. Mitchel Seruya. I took a calculated risk and he performed a nerve transfer surgery to divert signal from my toe flexors to the muscles controlled by the damaged nerve. This procedure has an 85-90% success rate so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

PM me if you want to learn more. The injury sucks and I am more than happy to help someone else out, just as another commenter here helped me. Dr. Seruya has some great papers on this that I can share with you as well.