Have you ever fractured a metatarsal?

[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.

[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!

[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.

[JRCT]

You ran a marathon. Fool.

Next time try walking it....

Next time?

[TykeMerc]

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

FTFY

[SueEllen]

You ran a marathon. Fool.

Takes one to know one....

[Batcher]

You ran a marathon. Fool.

Next time try walking it....

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

[BrilloPad]

You ran a marathon. Fool.

Next time try walking it....

[mudskipper]

Thanks SueEllen. I think I'll have to go. Though, mainly so that I can tell everyone I ran a marathon with a broken foot. It makes me sound tough.

Could be a stress fracture, which might not show up on x-rays...

[JRCT]

Doesn't mean you cracked them but worth going to the doctor who will send you to have it x-rayed.

Normally I leave it 2 weeks before going to the doctor but one time I did that I was told off by a GP as it was a suspected broken ankle.

Next time cut out the middle man - by on the day or next day going straight to A&E saying you heard a crack then they will x-ray it for you. Now as it's days later you have to go to the GP first.

Thanks SueEllen. I think I'll have to go. Though, mainly so that I can tell everyone I ran a marathon with a broken foot. It makes me sound tough.

[mudskipper]

I can never remember where the metatarsal is. Would it be somewhere round the wrist?

Nope, that'd be yer carpals

Carpals - wrist
Tarsals - ankle

Metacarpals - hand
Metatarsals - foot

[OwlHoot]

I can never remember where the metatarsal is. Would it be somewhere round the wrist?

[SueEllen]

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

Doesn't mean you cracked them but worth going to the doctor who will send you to have it x-rayed.

Normally I leave it 2 weeks before going to the doctor but one time I did that I was told off by a GP as it was a suspected broken ankle.

Next time cut out the middle man - by on the day or next day going straight to A&E saying you heard a crack then they will x-ray it for you. Now as it's days later you have to go to the GP first.

[TheFaQQer]

I always thought that metatarsals meant "we got together at MFs house"

[JRCT]

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.