I’m a bit late to the party, but I figured I’d chime in since I sprained my ankles 3 times within a year and a half, with the last sprain (sustained while landing from an awkward jump, without falling off the horse) tearing the peroneal retinaculum and requiring surgical repair.
You probably need time and strengthening exercises for what is really a recent event. We give horses months off of full work after straining soft tissue, so why do we make ourselves go back to full work so soon after hurting ourselves? It might be worth doing physical therapy to help you regain flexibility and strength to support the ankle, but it just plain takes time. 
It’s probably not the best idea to jump with stirrups until your ankle is 100%, since it puts extra strain on your ankles. After my second ankle sprain, I spent a while just riding bareback and/or without stirrups, since I wasn’t really strong enough to use the ankle again until a couple months after the injury.
I became religious about wrapping my ankle for support every time I rode. I found that Vetrap, although more expensive (buying in bulk and employee discounts help) and not reusable, provides better support when wrapped firmly than the soft Ace bandages you get at CVS. I kept wrapping until something like 6 months after my last injury. Combined with an “air-cast” lateral/medial ankle brace and a stiff hiking boot (the air cast doesn’t fit inside normal paddock boots), your ankle is virtually immobilized, with a small amount of flexion and extension in one plane allowed. On hot days, my skin got irritated under the Vetrap, so I started using baby powder and/or a bit of roll gauze underneath the wrap. For extra support, I used a bit of Elastikon on the outside (but not on the skin!).
Other than that, I found that Surpass (topical diclofenac) helped my ankle without killing my stomach (I also had to cut back on my “vitamin I”), and there is a human prescription version that you could ask your doctor about. I’ve also used it on my knees on bad days by rubbing it over the bulgey spots where the joint capsule is near the skin on either side of the kneecap. Oops, I guess that’s medical advice, 
but I would suggest asking your doctor about topical NSAID’s.
I hope this helps some, but your ankle will not heal if you don’t let it!
P.S. I know what you mean about all of the pain being gone! I’ve been on oral steroids several times in the last year for respiratory problems, and small pains that I didn’t even know I had went away! If it weren’t for those darn side effects (stretch marks everywhere that I still have, immune suppression, potential for kidney/liver/? damage, etc.), I’d be begging the doctor for a long-term supply.
