Have you ever fractured a metatarsal?

[TykeMerc]

Why would anyone do that when there's a perfectly good bus service chauffeur?

FTFY

[JRCT]

You ran a marathon. Fool.

Next time try walking it....

Next time?

[minestrone]

Yes, in a car crash. Nothing was done. I don't think they do much to it unless you are Wayne Rooney or it is totally smashed.

Your laces may have been too tight.

[Dactylion]

I am pretty sure I have fractured a few metatarsals along with other associated damage, bruising plus possibly a broken ankle.

If he had paid me when asked it wouldn't have been necessary!

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

I think I have. I ran a marathon at the weekend and my 2nd/ 3rd metatarsals are pretty sore.

I'm wondering if it's something I need to go to the docs for or whether it's the kind of injury, like suspected cracked ribs and broken toes, that regardless of whether they're actually broken or just severely bruised, the treatment is the same.

I've broken my 3 times on the same foot, twice in the last 12 months both at the base of the 5th metatarsal , if you broken it you would most likely know as I couldn't put weight on it and at all and lots of swelling / bruising. I'm nearly 16 weeks in since my last break, was in plaster for 4 weeks, boot for another 6, its still very sore now though the fracture has healed its the ligaments that seem to the issue, I've got a limp now. I used to run and completed a couple of marathons but my running days are over now and I'm becoming a fat b&stard.