Anyone out there had a second metatarsal stress fracture? What does it feel like? I noticed some pain there on top of the toe AFTER my run yesterday. Doesn't really hurt when I squeeze it, but I have noticed some hits of pain walking around since then. Nothing unbearable, nothing that resonates anywhere else in the foot. Planning on running today to see how the pain is, but thought I would seek some opinions first.
Bones in your toes are phalanges. Metatarsals are the long bones in your foot that connect to the phalanges. If you have pain on a toe and not the foot, it is probably not a metatarsal sfx, although the pain from a metatarsal sfx can radiate out to the phalanges. But, if there is no pain on the actual met, there is probably no met sfx.
Thank you. I suspected that if it was toe pain then it wasn't a stress fracture, but you never know.
Once you've had a fracture two things happen.
1) paranoia (I have a major dose of this)
2) sympathy / scar tissue pain
Foot.
I had a stress fracture of that very bone.
Tap on it repeatedly. If you find one spot where the tapping hurt, I would not wait to see a doctor.