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stress injury?

Discussion in 'Ask your questions here' started by yvonne-robo, Aug 30, 2011.

  1. yvonne-robo

    yvonne-robo New Member


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    stay with me because this may take a long time to explain...
    I started to get a pain in the ball of my foot in March (just near my A-levels which wasn't helpful! I went to see A+E/GP/walk in centre, you name it and they all had different views of what it was from Arthritis to a broken bone etc so i decided that i needed to see a specialist as the pain was getting worse. The NHS were rubbish and said I would have to wait until November for an appointment and because it was so near my A-levels etc I decided to pay privately to go see a foot and ankle specialist. He said that because there was never a point of injury he thought it was a stress fracture from walking differently with my (badly made) orthotic insoles! He said I would need an MRI to see what was going on.
    So around 3 months ago I had an MRI which showed Odemas (bruising and swelling) in my 1 metatarsal, 2nd and the ball of my foot. My doctor claimed it was a start of a stress fracture and now that I had stopped wearing these insoles that it should go away in around 12 weeks.

    The pain got worse over the following weeks until I was unable to put my foot down at all so i decided to get a second opinion of what was happening on the NHS because I had waited al this time. This doctor claimed it may not have improved due to the fact that I was still slightly walking on it and told me to non weight bear for 2 weeks ( which if anyone has tried is unbelievably difficult and very annoying and definitely decreases the quality of your life loads!) So then I developed this weird rash/redness with puss coming out of my foot after 2 weeks and went back to the NHS to see if everything was okay! anyways, this redness and everything is apparently a separate issue of a skin infection (which is a massive of a coincidence as it is on the same bone as my injury but anyways I don't have any reason to believe it is connected.) So turns out this guy had looked through my files and he has now come to his own conclusion that it was not the start of the stress fracture and that it is Sesamoiditis?! or a Sesamoid fracture? what confused me is why they dont know for definite as they did an MRI? anyways, now hes prescribing my orthotics and I have to wear a shoe with a rocker bottom sole and everything to keep the weight off my foot BUT now i'm feeling a little defeated because if it is something to do with the sesamoid bone I haven't put weight on that bone in nearly 5 months?! so how is any of this treatment going to help? he also said he was considering an injection? :l
    Anyways, just wanted to know your opinion, or anyones? because getting to the point where this is seriously affecting my mood as I have been on crutches for nearly 5 months and keep getting told different things and nothing seems like its going to work! please help!

    (so just to recap, why don't they know whether it is a stress fracture of sesamoid bone or sesamoiditis with MRI? How to treat? what are my options? What's your opinion?)

    Thankyou for any help I get as i was in so much pain that I cry every night
     
  2. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    I've had sesamoiditis getting worse steadily for 6 years.

    Suddenly (and quite unexpectedly) I managed to get a complete heal simply by cycling on a stationary bike every day (for about 45 minutes) over several months.

    Cycling realigns the leg as well as heals the sesamoiditis bone itself.

    I think the reason sesamoiditis never seems to heal is that the leg will automatically 'un-align' itself in order to alleviate toe pan.

    The trick with cycling is to find a pair of shoes that won't cause re-injury and then ensure that the big toe is 'glued' to the other toes while cycling.
     
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