Yesterday, I saw the podiatrist to go over my MRI results of my foot. Turns out that I absolutely no question about it have a non-union fracture.
My podiatrist is great, answered all my questions including the one where I said that I've had two kinds of cancers, and while I know bone mets in a metatarsal is very rare, the chance of that is still a number greater than zero. She paused and said you know I think it would make the most sense for you to see Dr. Rosenthal, who specializes in bone or soft tissue tumors. She's going to get that referral going and she told me to be extremely clear on my history so he has a full picture.
That makes sense to me because otherwise on the face of it, this looks like it was a stress fracture and I have bad bones. Only my bones weren't that bad when I had my DEXA scan nearly two years ago. The actual values indicated osteopenia but nowhere near osteoporosis. I got that osteoporosis dx from my endocrinologist after my pelvis fractured.
As I told my podiatrist, that fracture absolutely was from over training. I've mentioned before that I ran 6 races in about two months' time: three half marathons, a 5K, a 12K and a 10K. That last 10K I know it was broken, man that race hurt. So yes, that was a stress fracture.
But with my foot this year, that wasn't the case. I was training slowly, sanely, under the care of a running coach and a physical therapist. I had no warning, nothing, the bone just broke.
That's the history she wants me to make sure to share. I still hope/think this is just a non-union fracture and if I have to have surgery to repair it, then yikes but OK I will. But if it's not, then I need whatever it is to be addressed too.
I am beyond discouraged.
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I am just so sorry to hear this. Glad that you are going to see the specialist and I hope you get some answers. It just doesn't stop!
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