Top of foot pain? (Read 1870 times)

Woke up with it this morning -- hadn't noticed even a nagging "huh, that's a little sore" discomfort before. So, it's a brand new pain. Both feet, but in different places. Left foot has it on middle metatarsal, right near metatarsal-phalangeal joint. Some soreness on movement, and definitely sore to the touch. On the right foot, it's more on the ankle, almost extending up to the shin. Soreness/tight feeling on movement, but not sore to the touch. Google has me freaked out because it makes the first one sound like a stress fracture. I want to believe not, obviously. My argument against is that it seems odd to me that it would show up suddenly like that. Wouldn't there be nagging discomfort for a while first? Or am I wrong? Also, it's odd to me that it would show up on the exact same day as this discomfort in the other foot, although the issues are different enough that perhaps that's just a coincidence and it's distracting me. Any thoughts? I'm icing. I did my scheduled run this morning, because I didn't notice this until I was out the door, and, then, well, I was out the door, so I kept going. It didn't particularly hurt when I was running -- I don't think I even noticed the lleft foot metatarsal pain, just felt like the right ankle needed a good stretch. Yes, I have new shoes, and they're a duplicate model of one I've been wearing successfully for years (I had to go online to find someone who still carried Brooks Radius, after an unsuccessful trial with Saucony). I am a high-arched overpronator (goofy, I know), and I wear a custom rigid orthotic. I've never had foot pain issues before (well, I did have some bottom-of-foot pain on one foot a couple of months ago, but it cleared up completely and relatively quickly without any changes on my part, so I do think that was a stone bruise or similar, rather than PF). Any advice appreciated!

I find it ironic that you woke up with this pain because that is exactly what happened to me. I had run pretty hard on a cold Northland day in the winter of 96'; that was a Sunday..... No pain when I went to bed.. When I stepped out of bed on Monday morning I could harly walk, because the pain on the top of my right foot was so bad. I feel a stess fracture would simulate with ongoing nagging pain... So I hope you don't have that. In my case this pain went away with rest; I hope the same for you.... Good Luck. j.

Not sure on the second mentioned pain, but the first sounds like me when I was tying my laces too tight.

Ditto! Mine also hurt when I flexed my toes back. They told me it was tendonitis from the way the laces irritated the tendons on the top of my foot. It went away soon after I started tying my shoes so they were looser on the top middle of my foot. Hope your problem is something simple as that instead of a stress fracture! Good luck!