How much pain can extensor tendonitis cause?

not sure what you've done to help it, but extensor tendonitis usually cause "top of the foot pain". one big red flag that stands out to me is the fact you've had this "sharp pain", "...for over a month". that's a bad sign and you need to get some imaging done or see a physio and get the tuning fork test done to rule out any metatarsal sfx. if youre running stop and see a doctor. your symptoms you have are not the usual run through type of injury at this point. go see a doc or you'll only make things worse.

It can cause a lot of pain. It can cause so much pain wearing shoes is excruciating.

that's a stress fracture.

Thanks. I have seen a doctor. X ray didn't show much. Possibly a stress injury in the fourth metatarsal but nothing definitive. He said it could either be a stress reaction or tendonitis. He told me to rest it for a month and it should get better. It's been a month and it's really no better. Time to go back I guess.

How are you doing now?

I am going through something very similar after years of running. It seems my mri shows just extensor tendonitis in all the toes and by the inner ankle tendon.

I have taken a lot of time off from running and its frustrating and am still searching for shoes, I have high arches though, I seem to do best when I walk around the house barefoot which sounds weird.

The pain for me was severe, it was sharp and stinging sometimes and other times it was a dull background ache . Other times my toes were cramping on and off and it also went under my foot on the inside and I thought it was PF.

hope you are back to running

Anyone recovered from this? Can anyone tell the difference in severe foot tendonitis from a metatarsal stress fracture?

It's pretty tough to tell the difference, but typically impact will cause the stress fracture pain. If it's a result of use then it's probably extensor.

I had extensor tendinitis and it put me out of running altogether for over a month, but proper balance, ankle, and toe exercises went a long way to help. It continued to hurt for an additional 3 months, but I had to compete so I got over it because it wasn't bad enough to stop me. But when I first hurt it I couldn't walk and it felt like my foot was broken.

i'm having similar issues. Thinking it's tendonitis but I agree when you say your foot felt broken. I have trouble walking on it at some points in the day. How long did it take to get better?

I started to feel it in mid February after a workout on the track. I had been dealing with a slight achilles problem which apparently changed my gait and led to my extensor problem. I kept running on it and raced a 5k on the indoor track. Started to hurt pretty bad at about 4k. Finished the race and went to the podium. Trying to step down from the podium, I put my weight and the injured foot and fell over in pain. Couldn't put any weight on it.

Rested with no running until I could walk on it normally. Took 3 days or so. I was doing stim, ice, and ultrasound on it during this time and throughout the first month or two.

Continued to not run for about a month and went with the bike, elliptical and pool for a while. During this time I did balance, ankle, and foot mobility exercises in conjunction with the ice, stem, and ultrasound. Started running again in March with pain. Developed a neuroma from the inflammation and got a cortisone shot that fixed that, but still had the top of foot pain.

All in all pain didn't subside completely until about the beginning of June.

Hi - any update on this? I believe to have the same

Thanks