My foot perplexes me

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I stepped on a nail last spring. The nail went a good inch into my foot, right behind the pinky toe joint. As one would expect, the puncture hurt quite a bit. The weird part was that it continued to hurt right up to yesterday. Most days it felt like a burning pebble was in my foot each time I stepped on it and I wasn’t able to bend it forward completely.

I had been to my Doctor and had x-rays taken. The next course of action was to get an MRI if the pain persisted.

Now fast forward to last month when I whacked that same toe on furniture and fractured it. I had put off the MRI because, well, I’m lazy, I guess. Anyway, that damn toe hurt a hell of a lot worse after that. With the fracture healed, my Doctor told me to get that MRI, which I did Friday night.

Now here’s the weird part: my toe feels freak’n great right now, and has all day. I can remember getting out of bed Friday morning and limping to the bathroom. However, this morning I got out of bed and walked normally, for the first time since puncturing that foot!

I just don’t get it. The only difference was that MRI. Was the pain just all in my head? It is really, really weird.

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I think your foot still had a little piece of the nail stuck in it, that’s why it was hurting. They couldn’t see it in x-rays because it went up inside your bone and was surrounded. When you broke your toe, the metal shard was freed from the bone, but was now stabbing the inside of your foot, causing it to hurt even worse. Then the magnets in the MRI sucked it out and now you’re all better.

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One day I was sitting at my desk and kicked something with my foot. The pain was intense. I could find nothing. As a runner I was continually aggravating the painful area. I rubbed and soaked and all the stuff you do for things. Maybe seven months later I was resting on the couch and rubbing my foot. I felt something sharp at the back of the foot. The more I rubbed the more I felt it. Finally I observed something shiny and was able to pull out a broken sewing machine needle that had traveled several inches within the foot before working out. So you may be in for more if the piece moves around.