Very sore, but not painful foot–stress fracture or soft tissue?
I'm a runner who recently upped her mileage for a half marathon. One morning, after putting in a shorter run (4 miles) i started having pain in the left side of my left foot, mostly in one spot, but radiating from the pinky toe to my ankle. I could walk on it though, and was even able to get another run in a few days later, and it only hurt when I slowed down. So I saw a doc because the pain seemed to intensify after my run, he took an xray and didn't see anything, but said to see a podiatrist if the pain hadn't gone away by today and to stop running. I'm still in pain, so I've scheduled the appointment.
The thing is, I don't have shooting pain in one spot on my foot when it is touched, and while I am in pain, and general discomfort, I can walk without much of a limp. So can this really be a stress fracture? Wearing shoes that rub against the side of my feet hurt like heck, but I'm wondering if the appointment is worth it.
Oh, and when the injury first occured, there was a small, blue bruise on the top of my foot, but that has since gone away.
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Is it worth ruining your foot just to save a few bucks?
You have an injury. I don’t work in orthopedics and I am not a hard core runner like you…but I can tell that your body is telling you something.
Either you get the answer now, or you wait, let it get worse and find out later. You probably will have to change something. Run less, get special shoes, heal for a while. If you wait, you may need surgery or have to give up running forever.
LISTEN to your body. You know that something is wrong. Now just ask the professionals how to fix it.
I had the same problem. I upped my mileage training for a half-marathon (5 miles/day) and my foot hurt. Not excruciating, but defenitely not pleasant. I ignored it for 5 months. Just last week I went for any x-ray, and I had broken through both my 1st metatarsal and sesamoid bone that makes up the ball of your foot. Now I am on crutches for 6 weeks and no running for 6 months!!! Sucks huge! Go to the Doc. better safe than sorry.