What is wrong with my left foot?

hammerthyme — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:29:58 -0800

Foot pain filter: TERRIBLE pain felt on top of left foot between the 4th and 5th toe, more inside. I've ran 50 to 90 miles a week for the past 2 years with one 2 month break when I had hip issues. I ran a half marathon on March 17th and vowed to take off one month to recover because my heel has been hurting. Well, a week ago, the top of my foot has been hurting like no other!

Here are the details of the symptoms:
- If I put pressure on the left foot, such as from pushing off to ride my bike, it hurts for a few minutes.

- The 5th-3rd toes go numb later in the day. What the?

- It's swollen - my "lady friend" just told me and I just noticed it.

- My heel doesn't hurt anymore, if that helps.

Please help me identify this! NSAIDs don't help the pain and I don't have insurance for another month. I want to start running by the end of this month but I don't see this happening. My shoes don't feel narrow and I'm freaking out. Thank you!

She's hoping to lose what feel like moon boots

blueberry — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:43:39 -0800

My friend has Morton's Neuroma but she'd still like some nice looking shoes. My friend has recently been diagnosed with Morton's Neuroma—specifically, each time the ball of her foot rolls (as in walking) she feels a painful shock shoot up from between her third and fourth toes.

(There's a surgery that can be done, but it doesn't always take, and when it does it often doesn't last for long and needs to be repeated. A friend of hers has had it done and is now going back under the knife for the second or third time.)

With that in mind, she'd like to see how she can do with just good neuroma-friendly shoes.

Right now she's wearing a pair of size 8.5 New Balance 925s. Comfortable, but not the dead-sexiest shoes you've ever seen and not really compatible with business attire. She's hoping there are nicer looking options out there. Basically, what she'd like is normal nice womens leather shoes (not sneakers) but ones that are compatible with the requirements of Morton's Neuroma.

Here's what the shoes would need to have:

a stiff bottom (to avoid her foot having to bend at the ball)
no heel
a wide "box area" for the toes (so the toes aren't all scrunched together and the shoe isn't held on by them)
needs to be able to accomodate an orthotic insert (a high-arched insert that has been custom-molded from her foot)
the part of the shoe that "holds" the shoe on has to be more towards the ankle, not the toe area

I figured there must be a place out there, some clothing designer that came down with Morton's and decided to make her own shoes...

Any ideas?

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What is wrong with my left foot?

She's hoping to lose what feel like moon boots