Sharp intermittent pain on the top of my foot

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1 year ago 02/02/2023 5:39pm EST

Today on my morning run, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of my left foot, on the inner side, close to the ankle. I ran through it, the pain faded but came back a couple of times. At one point the pain was so sharp that I decided to stop and loosen up my shoe. As soon as I stopped the pain went away and I was able to start up again and complete the run without any significant issue.

After the run, my foot was a little painful in certain positions when walking around but fine for the most part. A few hours later it seemed completely pain free. I decided to give my afternoon run a try and felt a couple of sharp bursts of pain during the run but they faded quickly. An hour after my run, I do not feel any pain walking around or putting all of my weight on my left foot. I cannot feel any painful spots when pushing into my foot.

Anyone ever experience anything like this? I guess I will take this day to day, try to run tomorrow but if it persists I will get an x-ray.

1 year ago 02/02/2023 7:38pm EST

re: long distance dedication

long distance dedication wrote:
Today on my morning run, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of my left foot, on the inner side, close to the ankle. I ran through it, the pain faded but came back a couple of times. At one point the pain was so sharp that I decided to stop and loosen up my shoe. As soon as I stopped the pain went away and I was able to start up again and complete the run without any significant issue.
After the run, my foot was a little painful in certain positions when walking around but fine for the most part. A few hours later it seemed completely pain free. I decided to give my afternoon run a try and felt a couple of sharp bursts of pain during the run but they faded quickly. An hour after my run, I do not feel any pain walking around or putting all of my weight on my left foot. I cannot feel any painful spots when pushing into my foot.
Anyone ever experience anything like this? I guess I will take this day to day, try to run tomorrow but if it persists I will get an x-ray.

If loosening shoes helped, that is suggestive of extensor tendonitis, but it could also be a stress reaction in the making because of overtraining. See a doc but they would also likely need more definitive symptoms and imaging for a reliable diagnosis.

1 year ago 02/02/2023 7:55pm EST

re: hmm.

hmm. wrote:
long distance dedication wrote:
Today on my morning run, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of my left foot, on the inner side, close to the ankle. I ran through it, the pain faded but came back a couple of times. At one point the pain was so sharp that I decided to stop and loosen up my shoe. As soon as I stopped the pain went away and I was able to start up again and complete the run without any significant issue.
After the run, my foot was a little painful in certain positions when walking around but fine for the most part. A few hours later it seemed completely pain free. I decided to give my afternoon run a try and felt a couple of sharp bursts of pain during the run but they faded quickly. An hour after my run, I do not feel any pain walking around or putting all of my weight on my left foot. I cannot feel any painful spots when pushing into my foot.
Anyone ever experience anything like this? I guess I will take this day to day, try to run tomorrow but if it persists I will get an x-ray.
If loosening shoes helped, that is suggestive of extensor tendonitis, but it could also be a stress reaction in the making because of overtraining. See a doc but they would also likely need more definitive symptoms and imaging for a reliable diagnosis.

Thanks. I did a big hill workout the day before and read that this can cause extensor tendonitis. Hopefully that is the case. I'll get it checked out if it continues for a few days.

1 year ago 02/02/2023 8:13pm EST

re: long distance dedication

1 year ago 02/02/2023 10:10pm EST

re: long distance dedication

long distance dedication wrote:
Today on my morning run, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of my left foot, on the inner side, close to the ankle. I ran through it, the pain faded but came back a couple of times. At one point the pain was so sharp that I decided to stop and loosen up my shoe. As soon as I stopped the pain went away and I was able to start up again and complete the run without any significant issue.
After the run, my foot was a little painful in certain positions when walking around but fine for the most part. A few hours later it seemed completely pain free. I decided to give my afternoon run a try and felt a couple of sharp bursts of pain during the run but they faded quickly. An hour after my run, I do not feel any pain walking around or putting all of my weight on my left foot. I cannot feel any painful spots when pushing into my foot.
Anyone ever experience anything like this? I guess I will take this day to day, try to run tomorrow but if it persists I will get an x-ray.

I would get some imaging done. May be anterior tibial inflammation which can be progressive. By chance are you flat footed or an overpronator? That exacerbates it

1 year ago 02/02/2023 10:32pm EST

re: Pyewacket

I would get a pain in the top of my left foot at the start of a run.

It would go away after 2 or 3 minutes.

I cranked a 10k time trial, hurt for 2 or 3 minutes then went away as usual. Ran hard the rest of the way.

Woke up the next day with a stress fracture that put me on the shelf for 8 months.

1 year ago 02/02/2023 10:53pm EST

re: long distance dedication

Hard to say if you have the same thing I did, but I encountered similar symptoms a couple of years ago. I switched all of my shoes to window or box lacing to avoid laces over the sore spot. Every bit of pain went away almost immediately and has not come back. You can check out window lacing at if you want an example.

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1 year ago 02/03/2023 9:35am EST

re: Pyewacket

Pyewacket wrote:
long distance dedication wrote:
Today on my morning run, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of my left foot, on the inner side, close to the ankle. I ran through it, the pain faded but came back a couple of times. At one point the pain was so sharp that I decided to stop and loosen up my shoe. As soon as I stopped the pain went away and I was able to start up again and complete the run without any significant issue.
After the run, my foot was a little painful in certain positions when walking around but fine for the most part. A few hours later it seemed completely pain free. I decided to give my afternoon run a try and felt a couple of sharp bursts of pain during the run but they faded quickly. An hour after my run, I do not feel any pain walking around or putting all of my weight on my left foot. I cannot feel any painful spots when pushing into my foot.
Anyone ever experience anything like this? I guess I will take this day to day, try to run tomorrow but if it persists I will get an x-ray.
I would get some imaging done. May be anterior tibial inflammation which can be progressive. By chance are you flat footed or an overpronator? That exacerbates it

Thank you, I think this could be it. After my run yesterday, I took a marker and circled the area that hurt. I just did an image search of anterior tibial tendonitis and saw a circle of the exact same area. I have medium arches and supinate slightly by the way.

In any event, I decided to take today off since the spot is still sore when my foot turns in certain positions. I am going to the podiatrist on Monday.

1 year ago 02/06/2023 10:03am EST

re: long distance dedication

Went to the podiatrist today and he believes it's anterior tibial tendonitis. I've been using the elliptical for the last 3 days and my pain walking around is mostly better.

He said he's 99.9% confident it's not any type of fracture. X-rays did not pick up anything and while he said the only way to rule out a stress fracture for sure was to get an MRI, it would take 2 weeks before I'd get an appointment and any results. He suggested starting up running slowly by the end of the week and if things do not get better then I could get the MRI.

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