BioAdoptMom3
10-14-2005, 11:35 PM
I have no idea what this is. Yesterday a friend and co-worker suggested I have gout as the pain started in my big toe. Some days it is worse than others. Yesterday I could hardly walk (tough when you teach kindergarten) but today it was much less painful. I looked up gout on the internet last night and every website said that symptoms would include redness and swelling. I have no redness and very little if any inflammation. It hurts to bend it back or forward, which has been going on for about a year. I am now also feeling the pain in the top of my foot and even into my ankle (though I realize the ankle and foot pain could possibly be related to the way I am walking because of the pain in my toe when it is more severe). I am also a female in my mid 40s and all the websites said gout is nearly unheard of in women before menopause. Any other ideas? I am getting a little worried about it and would appreciate any comments or suggestions as to what it could be and what I could do about it. I also do not know if I should see my family doctor first or go right to a podiatrist.
TIA!
Nancy
Titchou
10-15-2005, 08:17 AM
It could still be gout - or gouty arthritis. Try eating 20 canned tart pie cherries (not pie filling) a day. If at the end of one can, it's quit hurting, then it's gout. If it doesn't, it could be several things...one of which is hallux limitus which is also called turf toe, runner's toe, tennis toe, etc. Is there a small bump on top of the toe at the main joint? That's an indication. A podiatrist visit would probably help either.
franann
10-15-2005, 02:33 PM
I would get these "cramps" in my foot from the big toe back when I would bend the toes. I also felt what I thought was a bruise under the big toe part of the ball of my foot. My arch also hurt at times, as if my arches were falling. I finally went to the doctor and the x-ray proved what the doctor suspected as the beginning stages of a bunion. I mentioned the foot cramps after and she said something about the nerves being affected by the bunion.
I, too am in my mid 40's and had been dismissing the pain. My foot doesn't look anything like the feet I saw in the pictures when I researched bunions.
I actually have bunions in both feet, but only one is causing me grief.
Anyway, I don't know if your pain is like a cramping pain, but if it is, it could be the same thing.
