It's Not A Tumor!

It's not a tumor just a minor set back...

Recently I've been struggling through some serious foot pain. Ok, I will admit that my threshold for pain is low but this pain is over the top. I've run when I shouldn't have been running thinking that I would just run through it. Instead, it just made it worse.

In the mornings, I feel like just cutting off my feet. It hurst so badly. I hobble around and it looks super lame. I've been wearing my Adidas with my orthodics. No high heels, no tight toe boxed shoes. Bare footin' it is painful because I don't having any padding on my feet. Sometimes the balls of my feet feel really puffy and ready to burst even though they don't look puffy at all. The strange thing is that my feet feel better when they are resting but as soon as I step back onto the floor...........they kill just as badly as they kill each morning. Craziness!

With Bry's urging, and a few friends, I went to our amazing Family Practice Doctor. Here is what he thinks;

If you sometimes feel that you are "walking on a marble," and you have persistent pain in the ball of your foot, you may have a condition called Morton's neuroma. A neuroma is a benign tumor of a nerve. Morton's neuroma is not actually a tumor, but a thickening of the tissue that surrounds the digital nerve leading to the toes.
Morton's neuroma occurs as the nerve passes under the ligament connecting the toe bones (metatarsals) in the forefoot. Symptoms

• Normally, there are no outward signs, such as a lump, because this is not really a tumor.
• Burning pain in the ball of the foot that may radiate into the toes. The pain generally intensifies with activity or wearing shoes. Night pain is rare.
• There may also be numbness in the toes, or an unpleasant feeling in the toes.

Runners may feel pain as they push off from the starting block. High-heeled shoes, which put the foot in a similar position to the push-off, can also aggravate the condition. Tight, narrow shoes also aggravate this condition by compressing the toe bones and pinching the nerve

I will be okay. I'm resting it for a few days and then I'll be ready to spin or cycle.