Stress reaction in foot?

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thanks everyone for the great advice.

Spoke with the podiatrist today. The MRI results showed inflammation around the sesamoid. No evidence of a stress fracture. Differential dx of sesamoiditis or stress reaction of the sesamoid. He said he is going with stress reaction due to level of discomfort when running. Put me in a fracture boot up the leg thing and told me to re-check in 2 weeks. Said sure to swimming and biking, if it hurts don’t do it. Offered a steroid/lidocaine foot injection for pain. I declined.
Here are 2 questions if anyone knows:

  1. can sesamoiditis usually be differentiated from sesamoid stress reaction?

  2. Will IB profen delay healing if I take it? Same with caffeine from coffee? (found some things online that said so).

I also am going to see a sports med md on Monday who is a triathlete just to make sure.

Again I appreciate the comments.