[gooseCile]

My foot seems to be giving me a lot of pain and I cannot figure out why. I do some running on it and I think it started hurting about a week ago after I went for a run. I've looked at the area where it hurts and there is no bruising and the pain I'm feeling is very internal in experience and very sharp in one small area of my foot while the rest of my foot is fine. I'm going to make a doctors appointment but has anyone ever had a stress fracture in a bone before, could this be what I'm experiencing? Just curious if any other runners have had a related injury?

[Carol]

dude, there are so many bones in a foot and so much cartiledge it could be anything. While a stress fracture is possible, it is improbable unless you jumped from a great height or somesuch...more likely just internal bruising or wear and tear on cartelidge though.

I have had a stress fracture in my wrist (another area with a ton of bones) and all i can say is that it was an immense,sharp pain whenever it was in use just the right way...otherwise it was just uncomfortable.... but when just right it was a tears kinda pain. (i was 14)

[prehighaltitudesjj]

There is a very good chance you have as tress fracture - particularly if you wear ubsuitable footwear and/or have a bad running style and/or are on hard uneven surfaces.

If in doubt SEE A DOCTOR [rolleyes]! Yes, I know there are a couple here but that sort of thing may be difficult to diagnose without seeing/feeling/X-raying the injured area.

[malishka1025]

My foot seems to be giving me a lot of pain and I cannot figure out why. I do some running on it and I think it started hurting about a week ago after I went for a run. I've looked at the area where it hurts and there is no bruising and the pain I'm feeling is very internal in experience and very sharp in one small area of my foot while the rest of my foot is fine. I'm going to make a doctors appointment but has anyone ever had a stress fracture in a bone before, could this be what I'm experiencing? Just curious if any other runners have had a related injury?

I have a very similar problem. After a session at the gym on Wednesday I started to experience mild pain in my left foot but only if I put weight/pressure on it, but this eased the more I walked around/used my foot. On Thursday night I decided to try and push through the pain and do some mild walking/light running at the gym, I think this might have been a mistake. I couldn't run at all, it was just too painful. Now the pain is more acute but like before the more I walk the less painful it becomes until I rest it and the cycle starts again. Just like yourself I don't have any visible bruising or swelling.

I'm going to give it until tomorrow and if there's no improvement or it gets worse then I'll seek some medical attention.

[Krruqgwt]

I had a similar thing with my tibia (shin bone). There was a point when at school I would be doing sport more or less every day. Matches and events after school as well as practice and just general games with mates during school.

I started getting small pain in around my tibia, during basketball one day. I ignored it, but it just got worse and worse the more I ran and jumped on it. It came to a point where the pain was so bad, I could barely walk, it is hard to explain what the pain felt like. It was almost like an aching feeling, throbbing I guess.

I didn't go to the doctors, I just assumed it was a stress fracture and during a two week school holiday and a week afterwards, I just rested it. After that rest it was fine. I've also had it in my feet too, but they weren't as bad as my shin and went away after a few days of doing nothing.

I'm sure the doctor will just advise resting for a couple of weeks [yes]

[Vegeinvalge]

When I was training for Javelin in my late teens I had a pain in my lower leg for about 6 months, I put it down to a muscle strain and continued to train on it until one day it just got so painful I couldn't walk on it. Had an x-ray and turned out I had 3 stress fractures in my Tibia.

[Abraham]

When I was in basic I developed some very severe stress fractures, some of them as much as 3/4 of the way though the bone, there might have been as many as 2 dozen in total. The army lied to me about my medical history I didn't find out until I was well out of basic just how severe my injures were or the fact that I should have been on crutches for months. It took several years for everything to heal properly, The tell tale signs were lumps that you could feel if you ran your fingers firmly down over my shins, and aches that turned sharp if I tried to run or jog or exert myself in a way that put strain on my legs. I hope you get lucky and the pain turns out to be something minor.

[Uzezqelj]

Yeah, stress fractures are entirely possible, and its possible for a stress fracture to snap and splinter, I've seen it.

I taught gymnastics for 10 years, and before that I did recreational competition (not as serious as club level, much cheaper too). In that time I've seen numerous injuries. The most common are shin splints, sprains, dislocations and broken bones. If you have a chronic pain that gets worse with pressure go to a doctor and get it checked out. You do not want a stress fracture turning into a full blown injury.