Mystery foot pain?

For the past 3 weeks I have severe (right foot) pain. No injury. No problem with shoes. Most of the pain in on instep or outer side of foot. Pain wakes me in the middle of the night and is progressive. I have severe limp now.
I see my doctor tomorrow.....probably will ask for xray and then MRI if xray is negative. Ligament tear maybe? But I do not remember any injury or stress on that foot. No gout symptoms....believe me ....I have thought of it all....I am in the medical field. Anyone else have similiar pain ....so I know what direction to go in? No pain on palpatation....no swelling or deformity.

No pain on palpation??? I never 'met' a foot that I couldn't elicit 'some pain' on palpation. If truly no pain, no mechanical dysfunction (e.g. subluxation/fixations or mysofascial trigger points, etc.), no vascular problem, etc., then it may be time to think neurological problems. Possibly a peripheral neuropathy originating in the foot, lower leg or spine.

Also appropriate to consider general metabolic problems such as diabetes, B12 deficiency, etc. Of course, these would be 'expressed' as another type of peripheral neuropathy.

And don't forget metabolic problems like carpopedal spasm caused by Magnesium deficiency.


Note: without trauma, how would you get a 'ligament tear'?

Best wishes and good luck.

What about bone spurs? My husband had those and cortisone helped.

Seek medical attention

Wow, just a guess...plantar's wart.

Try to look in the spine area for maybe a pinched nerve or just maybe a alignment needs to be done.

Sounds like a stress fracture to me. ive have had them before and they take a long long time to heal. It might not show up necessarily on the x-ray or MRI. They are tiny hair line fractures that occur just because you may have done really nothing. It just sometimes happens when you don't think you did anything to provoke it. Just don't do anything to keep the injury sustained and don't do sports. It will heal but it takes a long time. Good Luck.