Pain in my foot!!!

[BigAndy69]

Ever since I sprained my ankle, I've had a pain in the heel of my OTHER foot.

I wake up and it hurts like hell. I can barely walk right now. It's not swollen or discoloured, it just REALLY hurts. It's starting to affect my training and my daily routine as well. I can barely walk! Tensor bandages help tremendously, but I can't go on like this. Any suggestions?

I just decided to wrap up my cycle. I can't train my lower body.

 

[hotmilf26]

Ever since I sprained my ankle, I've had a pain in the heel of my OTHER foot.

I wake up and it hurts like hell. I can barely walk right now. It's not swollen or discoloured, it just REALLY hurts. It's starting to affect my training and my daily routine as well. I can barely walk! Tensor bandages help tremendously, but I can't go on like this. Any suggestions?

I just decided to wrap up my cycle. I can't train my lower body.

Ok so Ive only been in Nursing school for a year and a half so take my advice how you will, more than likely favoring one ankle has caused over use in the other and possibly tendonitis. Try 800 milligrams of motrin (or any anti inflamitory and if at all possible get off your feet for a week. Which I know is not possble for most bodybuilders. If it is tendonitis it will only get worse with activity. Good luck

 

[The Terminator]

My guess as to WHY you are getting pain in the other foot is it has had to take on so much extra stress to compensate for you walking gingerly on the hurt one...
This occurs often times with injuries...
I dont have a solution for it though, just pointing out WHY this could be being caused...

 

[INNOCENT]

i would try what hotmilf said , cant hurt.. the only reason i would beleive that the other foot hurts is b/c you are putting more pressure on that foot b/c the other one is hurt..

 

[baby DBOL]

when spained your ankle did fall a wierd way and hit the heal. might be a bone bruising or a minor fracture of one of the heal bones. Stranger things have happened.

 

[yomama]

Ever since I sprained my ankle, I've had a pain in the heel of my OTHER foot.

I wake up and it hurts like hell. I can barely walk right now. It's not swollen or discoloured, it just REALLY hurts. It's starting to affect my training and my daily routine as well. I can barely walk! Tensor bandages help tremendously, but I can't go on like this. Any suggestions?

I just decided to wrap up my cycle. I can't train my lower body.

Pain in the heel? Right in the middle? Like needle pain?

 

[ceo]

Ok so Ive only been in Nursing school for a year and a half so take my advice how you will, more than likely favoring one ankle has caused over use in the other and possibly tendonitis. Try 800 milligrams of motrin (or any anti inflamitory and if at all possible get off your feet for a week. Which I know is not possble for most bodybuilders. If it is tendonitis it will only get worse with activity. Good luck

It is most likely (99% sure here) Plantar Fasciitis. Your favoring of one foot has caused the plantar fascia (long flat ligament on the bottom of your foot) to stretch too much and become torn, which causes inflammation.

Usually this is from walking with a pronated (twisted/inward turned) foot. Athletes are at higher risk, especially runners. Also, you may have high arches, this would be another high risk factor especially if your shoes don't have good arch support. If your job or hobby requires you to be standing or walking for prolonged periods on hard surfaces, you're at risk. Being heavy or overweight (or having sudden weight gain) can put you at risk as can just getting older (common in middle ages).

Symptoms (pain) tend to worsen after prolonged periods of rest (after waking in the morning, etc.) because the plantar fascia is being stretched again after a period of rest.

Treatment should start with a good orthotic! You need arch support. Get yourself a good set of orthotics right away. If you cant afford a good set now, at least get something that will provide a good level of arch support, and start saving for those orthotics (they can run maybe $200, not sure). There are many cheaper options but those have to be constantly replaced.

In addition to this, to releive pain you can ice the sore heel and take ibuprofen (motrin, etc.) 600mg p.r.n. (as needed). As for taking more ibuprofen than that, studies have shown there to be no analgesic difference between 800mg and 600mg of ibuprofen unless you are running a fever.

Of course I recommend you go see your doctor...but at least now you have an idea (99%) of what is wrong and you'll know what he is talking about when he (almost surely) diagnoses you with plantar fasciitis.

 

[hard life]

Did you sprain your ankle recently? I know when I tore the liaments in my right ankle my left ankle started to hurt. It wasn't until my right ankle was healed that the pain started to go away from the left and then eventually stopped. Your probably a heavier dude then me so it might be more serious problem when your ankle has to compensate for the other.

 

[BigAndy69]

Thanks for the responses guys.

ceo, it sounds to me like you are right. It really hurts after long periods of rest.

I'm gonna look into plantar fasciitis

 

[BigJoshRn]

Treatment should start with a good orthotic! You need arch support. Get yourself a good set of orthotics right away. If you cant afford a good set now, at least get something that will provide a good level of arch support, and start saving for those orthotics (they can run maybe $200, not sure). There are many cheaper options but those have to be constantly replaced.

Very nice post...I would like to add that an easy way to stretch the plantar fascia is to roll it on a tennis ball...front to back...this came from a podiatrist that I work with...good luck! Do it before you go to bed and at the breakfast table in the morning.