My foot hurts

[ClementineChurchill]

My foot hurts. This isn’t chronic pain. It’s not a scary warning about something I need checking out. It’s not that I need special shoes. My foot just hurts. It happens sometimes as you get older. Before this it was my hip. Before that it was my finger (bizarrely, yes, I know).

Anyone else got any irritating minor pain that is definitely not a serious illness and just part of getting older that nevertheless they’d like to empathise about? (And no, I know about the menopause thanks)

Oh yes I do!
I turned my ankle about 10 weeks ago and it’s still buggered. Every now and then I think it’s better and then it swells up again. Very annoying.
I do have chronic back pain but have had it for such a long time that I cope without painkillers pretty much most of the year round, I’d love to be able to properly stretch without having to be careful 😂
You have my utmost sympathy op, bodies are wonderful but can be so irritating at times!

Funny you should say that, because my foot hurts too. Left foot, along the top, towards the right. My ankle is also quite sore, and my shin. Probably connected, and not serious, though it might be arthritis.
Tomorrow they might be OK again.
Can't say that this ageing business is always fun, but it's nice to empathise. I hope your foot makes a speedy recovery.

My left hand little finger and my right hand index finger both hurt. My knees are stiff too. I reckon it’s arthritis, but I refuse to stop sewing and knitting.

Thank you all for affirming that it’s not just me! It’s so annoying, right? I wish I’d appreciated just how great it is to be invincible when I was young …

Anyone else?!

Yes, something is always burning away quietly… Same for DH. And we are the fit ones. It’s just comforting to moan.

Clementine, maybe you have arthritis. Have you had it checked? It may not be worth a separate visit to the doctor, but something you mention when you are next there.

I'm over 60 now and feel very lucky not to have aches and pains, like so many people have, include my DH. I do know that when I do injure myself, it takes longer to heal.

Yep I have gall stones and arthritis. Went for a walk around town and was limping badly after 15 minutes

I'm griping about an achey shoulder, a knee that shouts at unexpected moments and a finger bone that's taken to throbbing painfully every few hours.

I'm 57. My right knee has been giving me grief for the last few weeks and sometimes the ankle on that leg hurts too. I walk every day and it starts to 'burn' after about 20 minutes. And the last few days while walking, I've had sudden pain under the toes of my left foot. It comes out of the blue and lasts for a few minutes before wearing off.

Once I started getting back pain everything started to go downhill….

Oh definitely yes. Right now my big toes are hurting. My fingers are twinging a bit and in the middle of the night I can look forward to my knees and hips joining in the torment. I really hate winter as it's so much worse then.

It's body bingo!
Wake up each morning and check the box for what hurts today.
(Sinusitis today for me.)

My left foot!!! It just hurts from time to time for a day or so! Nothing to write home about... But just aches! I've had this on and off since I was in my late twenties. Mid thirties now

Bizarre!

I have plantar fasciitis, it is utterly grim and never better!

My right shoulder has also been hurting for about a month, joy.

Mine hurts too but I know why. I managed to squish it under a chest of drawers and have given myself a lovely bruise.

Oh and I have a niggly tooth atm which is annoying me more!

I’m glad it’s not just me. But also sorry to hear you’re all experiencing similar niggles. We all deserve to feel a little bit sorry for ourselves.

(Anyone diagnosing anyone else is banned from this thread. This is for empathy, not chin-scratching diagnoses.)

My foot hurts too. Not so much an age thing but just one of the joys of being nearly fully flat footed. When I spend an extensive amount of time out of comfortable supportive trainers, my feet start to hurt. I've done something to really aggravate it in the last week though. Not really anything I can see docs for though.

Yes it’s hard to know what to say to the doc when you eventually get an appointment, isn’t it. ‘My foot hurt about three weeks ago.’ I’m the opposite, I have high arches. It’s not usually an issue though. I suspect it’s a combo of the damp weather and walking in heavy boots for several days in a row. Never happened before this badly. I was limping home earlier like an old goat … 😂

It was like someone had flipped a switch the day I turned 60. I do have a "real" back problem (facet joint syndrome) but I also have a fun assortment of ever changing aches and pains everywhere else. Today a knee, tomorrow a finger or a toe, and on it goes...every morning it's "guess what today" before I get out of bed! Some days an old mate, some days something completely new...None of them actually stop me from doing anything but I was never one to have any musculoskeletal problems until this!

@questionablemouse my DH solved his "niggly tooth" by pulling it out with a pair of pliers. He only told me a few days later, because he knew I would be furious. He says he feels great now...apart from the knees, back, wrist etc...

😱

Oof, he's braver than I am! Think I'll stick with the traditional approach of seeing the dentist 🤣😁

My left foot hurts. I fell over last year and broke it in three places and it's never recovered. I had another MRI a few weeks ago and I need a cortisone injection and if that doesn't work the consultant 'may need to do something surgically'. As well as that I have a ganglion cyst on the ankle and a Morton's neuroma. I suspect I may have a Morton's neuroma on the right foot as well but I'm not looking into that too much!