In agony with my foot :(

[PumpkinPie2016]

Just seeing if anyone has had anything similar/has any advice?

For info, I am 33 and normally healthy. I have been out on walks locally, a couple of miles, with my young son over the past week or so but nothing out of the ordinary. No falls/trips while out and I always wear good boots (we live rurally).

Yesterday, when I got up, my right foot seemed a little sore at first, nothing major at all. I assumed it was a bit of cramp/stiffness/I had slept on it weirdly. Within a minute or so, it was totally fine.

Over night, in bed, my ankle was sore. I got up this morning and I am in agony I can't walk properly on my foot because it is so painful to weight bear on it. It hurts when I am sat still! I have rested it and taken paracetamol.

The pain is around the ankle and down the right hand side of my foot. I feel queazy with it. Strangely, there is no bruising or major swelling. Possibly a tiny bit of swelling but certainly nothing to shout about.

I am assuming I have somehow sprained it but literally no idea how. I am painfully hobbling/hopping when I need to move.

Has anyone experienced this or got any advice?

[Ispywithmycynicaleye]

Is it on the bottom of your foot or at the side?

[FurryCat1978]

Sure you didn’t get a tick bite recently OP? If in doubt speak to your GP; they might want to get you a course of antibiotics... you don’t want Lyme disease.

Could be a sprain, as you say, so paracetamol and ibuprofen and a good dose of rest, ice, compression and elevation. Give it a few days.

Get well soon.

[chrispenrallt1]

Hope it’s not a ruptured Achilles’ tendon. Happened to me just as you said,. I felt as though I’d been kicked in the back of the leg. I’m in an orthopaedic boot now, on crutches too for the next 6 weeks.!

[ZJSH]

Could it be planter fasciitis?
I suffer with this and it has been far worse in lockdown especially when getting out of bed in the morning. I put it down to wearing slippers constantly and am now wearing shoes indoors for support.

[PumpkinPie2016]

Thank you for the replies. It's still very painful.

It's on the side of my foot -like from the ankle down towards the little toe. No bites that I can see plus I had a walking boot on so don't think anything could have got in.

Might try the GP today. Don't want to waste anyone's time though, particularly in the current climate.

[Mummyneedsginnow]

Plantar fascilitis, possibly, I had this a couple of years ago, after moving house and all its associated rushing around, mine took a while to improve but it was quite a weird pain, almost a burning cramp sensation. Ibuprofen for inflammation definitely. Hope it eases soon

[PumpkinPie2016]

Managed to get a video consultation with the GP this morning. He thinks its peroneal tendonitis

I have anti inflammatory gel and paracetamol to help ease it. He also sent me a link to some exercises to do. I have to rest it as much as I can.

Not fun at all