After many months of foot and ankle problems, I have decided to post my problem in hopes that a slowtwitcher out there will recognize my symptoms and help lead me to what is causing my foot pain.
In early November I went out for a run and one of my first steps I took, I felt extreme sharp pain in the outside of my ankle near where my ankle meets my foot. It was so sharp I did not run for the next 5 days. Once I started running again I ran much less in volume. It bothered me some days but not others, but was not sharp pain anymore.
The day after Thanksgiving I got the sharp pain again, so sharp that I had to walk home from my run. I then took a full week off from running, and again once when I started running I sometimes felt some pain, but often not.
Then in mid-December I tore my quad muscle and assumed that by the time my quad healed, my ankle and foot issue would certainly be healed. At the end of December, with several weeks of no lower body workouts, I was surprised my ankle and foot still hurt so I went to see a physicians assistant at an orthopedist office. He diagnosed me with sinus tarsi and gave me a cortisone shot in my ankle. Within a few days my ankle pain subsided but I continued to have sharp pain in my foot.
I went back to the doctor in early February and he said I had peroneal tendonitis as a result of having the sinus tarsi going untreated for so long. He sent me to PT. I went to PT for 6 weeks and at the end of 6 weeks, which is where I am now, I greatly improved strength, balance and flexibility in my leg, ankle and foot but it did nothing to fix the problem of sharp pain in my foot.
My PT guy is now sending me back to the physicians assistant and I have to wait several weeks to get in, so that is where I am at right now.
A few other notes, the sharp pain is not in only one place, and it comes and goes what seems totally random to me. I can be perfectly fine for hours and then all of a sudden I put my foot down and get a sharp pain. The pain can last anywhere from a few minutes to several days before it subsides. The sharp pain is also in many different locations but is always somewhere on the top of my foot and I feel it when my weight is on my foot.
I am really frustrated at this point. I did have an x-ray in both December and February and both x-rays looked clean. I also saw a chiropractor a few times in December, as well as a massage therapist who worked on my lower leg muscles. Neither of these avenues helped.
I am wondering if any of you have experienced anything similar to this and can offer any advice on what could be causing this pain.
Thanks in advance!
Dana
In early November I went out for a run and one of my first steps I took, I felt extreme sharp pain in the outside of my ankle near where my ankle meets my foot. It was so sharp I did not run for the next 5 days. Once I started running again I ran much less in volume. It bothered me some days but not others, but was not sharp pain anymore.
The day after Thanksgiving I got the sharp pain again, so sharp that I had to walk home from my run. I then took a full week off from running, and again once when I started running I sometimes felt some pain, but often not.
Then in mid-December I tore my quad muscle and assumed that by the time my quad healed, my ankle and foot issue would certainly be healed. At the end of December, with several weeks of no lower body workouts, I was surprised my ankle and foot still hurt so I went to see a physicians assistant at an orthopedist office. He diagnosed me with sinus tarsi and gave me a cortisone shot in my ankle. Within a few days my ankle pain subsided but I continued to have sharp pain in my foot.
I went back to the doctor in early February and he said I had peroneal tendonitis as a result of having the sinus tarsi going untreated for so long. He sent me to PT. I went to PT for 6 weeks and at the end of 6 weeks, which is where I am now, I greatly improved strength, balance and flexibility in my leg, ankle and foot but it did nothing to fix the problem of sharp pain in my foot.
My PT guy is now sending me back to the physicians assistant and I have to wait several weeks to get in, so that is where I am at right now.
A few other notes, the sharp pain is not in only one place, and it comes and goes what seems totally random to me. I can be perfectly fine for hours and then all of a sudden I put my foot down and get a sharp pain. The pain can last anywhere from a few minutes to several days before it subsides. The sharp pain is also in many different locations but is always somewhere on the top of my foot and I feel it when my weight is on my foot.
I am really frustrated at this point. I did have an x-ray in both December and February and both x-rays looked clean. I also saw a chiropractor a few times in December, as well as a massage therapist who worked on my lower leg muscles. Neither of these avenues helped.
I am wondering if any of you have experienced anything similar to this and can offer any advice on what could be causing this pain.
Thanks in advance!
Dana