Just yesterday I was noticing some fairly sharp pains in my hip due to the limp. The knee has also acted up some and the right side of the injured foot has been in consistent pain due to dealing with most of the weight. Fortunately, for some odd reason, the swelling went down significantly just last night and the limp now is not as pronounced. of course, I am planning to head back to the gym tonight to lift weights for a few minutes where I’ll most likely re-injure it by doing whatever nothing-thing I was doing when I injured it.

(One thing I’m starting to wonder about OMIs – do they go away as suddenly/mysteriously as they come on?)

unfortunately, i’ve learned with toe injuries (by kicking the portion of the drier that sticks out just enough whilst walking normally, then falling into a crumpled heap on the floor and yelling like a banshee for 5 full minutes), that they often lead to ankle pain – due to strange-walking induced by the toe pain. those ankle ‘injuries’ then lead to knee troubles, brought on by even stranger walking patterns due to the ankle pain due to the toe pain. then the knee pain leads to some weird hip and/or back pain on one side or the other due to favoring one leg due to the knee pain brought on by the ankle pain brought on by the strange-walking induced by the toe pain.

pretty soon, your stubbed toe has you either hobbling like a gout-ridden, war-injured, scoliosis-ized, crazy old man with an irrational fear of driers.

and just when you’re walking upright again, and the fear subsides, is usually when you kick the damn thing again.

D∈T

Be really glad you do not have it though. When my friend was about 6 years old he burnt his hand severely by placing it on a stove burner. He told me recently that the pain he endures when the gout flares up is second only to that burn.

Good luck