Voting Question: Is something seriously wrong with my foot?
Posted on Mar 03, 2010 under Etnies | I got new shoes before going to college. They had a lot of arch support and I’m not used to wearing shoes with tons of arch support as I usually wear Etnies which are pretty flat. After wearing them a few times I began to get pain in the ball of my foot near my big toe. I continued wearing them figuring they just needed to be broken in. One day I had a sudden stabbing pain there while walking in these shoes and was unable to walk normally for a good 5 minutes or so it hurt so bad. The only way I could walk comfortably was to walk on the outside edge of my right foot (my left foot was never bothered by these shoes). After this I had no more problems wearing these shoes and didn’t experience much pain.
However, I found a pair of my AE clogs and started wearing those instead of the shoes. Now for the past few days I have been experiencing intense pain on the top of my right foot near my big toe. The pain is about halfway between the big toe and where my leg connects to my foot. It’s about where if you feel your foot tracing from the big toe, the foot bumps up a bit. Where you go from touching the long bones to the smaller shorter bones of the foot. My foot hurts a lot when I walk, I’d be unable to run if I tried, and when I move my big toe up and down it feels very painful and almost as if there’s a grinding between bones right there.
I don’t have a doctor nearby and am not sure if this is just from switching back to shoes with minimal arch support or what. Anyone have any ideas?
