Hi, Anon, and welcome to EmpowHer. Thanks for your question!
First of all, I'm really sorry you've had to deal with this for a month. That sort of pain is not at all normal and to endure it for a month. Especially when it's something like your foot, which you use all the time.
I'm sure you've asked yourself this, but before this happened did you perhaps have any sort of injury to that foot, any time when you stumbled or dropped something or just did something awkward and it ended up hurting?
Are you an active person? Do you run, rollerblade, work out?
My initial thought, given the time you've dealt with this and the level of pain you have, is that you may be dealing with a small broken bone, even a stress fracture. Can I ask why it's been a month and you haven't visited a doctor or the ER? Seems like you probably need an X-ray and possibly an ace bandage and some pain medicine at least.
I had a stress fracture in my foot and it also hurt at maybe a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It was incredibly painful and it was "just" a stress fracture. But I didn't find out exactly what was going on or what to do about it until they took an X-ray.
Here's an amazing fact: We have 26 bones in our foot. 26!! And even if just one has a stress fracture or a break, it's going to cause you that kind of pain.
Here's a page from the Podiatry Channel that also has illustrations of the structure of the foot:
From the way you write about your foot, it sounds like you might have an injury to your 5th Metatarsal Bone, or possibly one of the tendons that connect to it. When you look at that image, is that the area of your foot that hurts?
In case you think this may be the case, here are a couple of good pages on metatarsal stress fractures:
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Hi, Anon, and welcome to EmpowHer. Thanks for your question!
First of all, I'm really sorry you've had to deal with this for a month. That sort of pain is not at all normal and to endure it for a month. Especially when it's something like your foot, which you use all the time.
I'm sure you've asked yourself this, but before this happened did you perhaps have any sort of injury to that foot, any time when you stumbled or dropped something or just did something awkward and it ended up hurting?
Are you an active person? Do you run, rollerblade, work out?
My initial thought, given the time you've dealt with this and the level of pain you have, is that you may be dealing with a small broken bone, even a stress fracture. Can I ask why it's been a month and you haven't visited a doctor or the ER? Seems like you probably need an X-ray and possibly an ace bandage and some pain medicine at least.
I had a stress fracture in my foot and it also hurt at maybe a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It was incredibly painful and it was "just" a stress fracture. But I didn't find out exactly what was going on or what to do about it until they took an X-ray.
Here's an amazing fact: We have 26 bones in our foot. 26!! And even if just one has a stress fracture or a break, it's going to cause you that kind of pain.
Here's a page from the Podiatry Channel that also has illustrations of the structure of the foot:
http://www.podiatrychannel.com/anatomy/index.shtml
And here's an enlargement of the side/outside of your foot:
http://www.podiatrychannel.com/pod/Images/ft_sdvw.gif
From the way you write about your foot, it sounds like you might have an injury to your 5th Metatarsal Bone, or possibly one of the tendons that connect to it. When you look at that image, is that the area of your foot that hurts?
In case you think this may be the case, here are a couple of good pages on metatarsal stress fractures:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/85746-overview
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch324/ch324m.html
Do you think this might be the case? Can you rest this foot? Do you need help finding a doctor?
June 25, 2009 - 8:21amThis Comment
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