What's wrong with my foot?

X-ray is not sensitive to stress fracture.

You need a CT scan, not an MRI.

They should not have put you in a boot. All you needed was to stop running. Unless you had something like a navicular stress fracture, but I would wait for the diagnosis before resorting to immobiliations.

Sorry I meant bone scan, not CT.

Have you done anything like tuning fork tests, tapping, etc?

Squeeze your metatarsals together. If it hurts like a bitch, you may have a neuroma.

More info?

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I was thinking it could be a neuroma, but I thought Morton's neuroma is more on the outside of the foot? Mine hurts down from between the big toe and second toe (not right between them, but on top of my foot..possibly cuneiform or navicular). If I'm not supposed to be in a boot, what do I do? Because it kind of hurts when I walk/bend my foot. It hurts the most when I pronate my foot.

stephanie,

don't flex your foot

its likely to either be a pinched nerve, a pulled tendon, or a metarsal stress fracture

the symptoms you indicate are very indicative of a metarsal stress fracture

when you are at home, not doing anything, don't wear shoes

in fact keep your shoes off as much as possible

allowing your foot to be in its natural condition, unshod, will help it heal

Should I wear the boot though?

TX,

You wrote in previous posts about being a midfoot striker, correct? I believe I asked you something about your metatarsal stress and what you think makes your foot hurt on the top arch. Do you still run in lightweight trainers? If so, do you believe your biomechanics could have caused your foot to hurt the way it does now?

You just need to give up all hope of ever running again...not that you actually "ran" in the first place.

Pics of your foot/lower leg/upper thigh/lower abdomen?

So does this mean an end to your marathon? Back to base work.

Buttress of Windsor wrote:

Pics of your foot/lower leg/upper thigh/lower abdomen?

meta? wrote:

TX,

You wrote in previous posts about being a midfoot striker, correct? I believe I asked you something about your metatarsal stress and what you think makes your foot hurt on the top arch. Do you still run in lightweight trainers? If so, do you believe your biomechanics could have caused your foot to hurt the way it does now?

I do not think the flats are to blame. I ran for over a year and a half in them just fine. My foot started hurting after I did a nasty hill workout. I had been running on mostly flat ground all this time and one day decided to do hill repeats on a very steep 400-meter hill. Mistake.

Bone Scan time. See if those osteoblasts are overactive.

Hymie wrote:

After looking at that video footage I have a diagnosis as to what's wrong with your foot. You weigh too much for your feet to bear. Plus you have some serious acne.

I had a stress fracture when I was anorexic too. Get some new material.

I consider myself a fairly immature and crass person, but you guys take the cake. Seriously what the hell is wrong with you?

I was thinking it could be a neuroma, but I thought Morton's neuroma is more on the outside of the foot? Mine hurts down from between the big toe and second toe (not right between them, but on top of my foot..possibly cuneiform or navicular). If I'm not supposed to be in a boot, what do I do? Because it kind of hurts when I walk/bend my foot. It hurts the most when I pronate my foot.

If it hurts to walk, then you should wear the boot. Pain with simple ambulation is the threashold for immobilization.

Orthopedia wrote:

X-ray is not sensitive to stress fracture.

You need a CT scan, not an MRI.

That's just bad medicine. Get the plain films before the CT. Stress fractures can and do show up on X-Rays, although as I'm sure you know generally only when active calcification/ossification is occurring.

The odds are nothing will show up and she'll have to get further imaging. But it'd irresponsible to skip right to the CT. And her insurance probably won't pay for that route anyway.

We don't even know if this is a stress fracture.

Too much weight on it.