on the end of my second toe,like in the ball of my foot area hurts pretty bad.its been hurting for a couple of weeks and it feels like there is a rock or something underneath it.at first i just thought it was where a piece of gravel or something poked me the wrong way, but its just not getting better at all.i can find a little sore spot, but only on the bottom of the toe and if i push on the top of my foot, i cant feel a sore spot.when i walk barefooted it hurts and when i curl up my toes or if i dorsiflex them when putting them up against the wall while doing a calf strech,it hurts as well. my trainer said it was mortons neuroma, but im thinking a possible stress fracture. any ideas?
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I had a metatarsal stress fracture last spring and one in the summer of 2000.They started off as just little shooting pains and progressed to the point where I couldn't even walk with a toe off.It really killed when I pressed on the top of the foot or when I bent the toe to the right with my hand.Also,have you tried icing it?I know that icing didn't do a thing for my stress fractures.I could dunk that bad boy in a bucket of ice for 3 days and it would still hurt.My guess is that ice would help a morton's neuroma more than it would a bone injury,but I could certainly be wrong as I've never had a neuroma.If you keep running on the injury you'll know pretty soon whether you have a stress fracture or not.It will get bad fast (at least it did for me).Hope this helps and good luck with your injury.
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Go see a Podiatrist. If it is a stress fracture, the faster you rest it the faster you get back. If it is a neuroma and you are running and compensating then you may develop an injury in another place.
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Brian
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Hey, HURT...any progress with your foot? My symptoms sound exactly like yours. I've taken four days off, iced, taken prescription anti-inflams and still no progress. I think my next step is an MRI.
Any idea how yours developed? I'm still trying to figure out mine.
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i took a couple of days off and then went to the doc to check it out. he didnt know for sure what it was but gave me some pain killers and the option of a cortisone shot before regionals and nationals. what i think i could be is that i have a very tender to the touch area in the center of my arch that i dont feel when runnning, only when i press on it with my fingers. that arch inserts at the base of my toe which hurts and my coach and i think the tightness in my arch is messing with that somehow and causing pain. its been sore off and on in hard workouts, but for the most part its been getting a lot better. im sure part of it is popping the aleve and pain killers though.
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hurt wrote:
i took a couple of days off and then went to the doc to check it out. he didnt know for sure what it was but gave me some pain killers and the option of a cortisone shot before regionals and nationals.
Then you went to a BAD doctor. A very bad doctor. Go to another one. A real sportsmedicine Podiatrist. Get an X-ray and find out for sure.
Unbelieveable. He doesn't know what it is, but he's going to give you a cortisone shot for what might possibly be a broken bone?
Go to a real doctor and soon.
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