I slipped on the stairs and by toes bent right back on themselves. Hours later my foot was still really painful but did not swell up very much, I went to the Dr because of the pain who said it looked okay and sent me off with ibuprofen. This was over a week ago now and the pain is localised to the ball of my foot and underneath my big toe, it is virtually impossible to drive and I get severe pain when I put pressure on that area and even more pain when I lift my foot up? whats going on?
Hi Rebecca,
It sounds as if you hyperextended your toes (bent upwards) when you fell on the stairs.
You ended up doing one of two things; you either stretched all the soft tissue that attaches your toes to your metatarsal bones, or there is even the chance you may have broken one of your metatarsal bones.
There is no way a doctor can look at your foot and determine whether there is a fracture or not.
Since you are still in a lot of pain, you should have the foot x-rayed; you should be on better anti-inflammatory medication than ibuprofen and you will need to immobilize the part of the foot that hurts because every time you walk on the injured part of the foot, you just further aggravate the problem.
Good luck.
Marc Mitnick DPM
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