Melody wrote:
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The top of my foot is hurting upon flexation. Normal walking is now very painful. If my foot is flat the pain is not so intense but if I pull my toes up the severest pain is in big toe but also radiates across the top of my foot just behind the toes. A Doctor at my walk-in clinic ruled out Gout as it is not just the big toe and my toe has no redness or swelling. I am supposed to take 800 mg of Ibuprofen and now have to take 30mg of Prevacid because the Ibu causes stomach pain. So far only the Prevacid does any good. The pain in my foot has not lessened at all. I am now losing sleep as it is diffucult to maintain a foot position that will not cause pain. I have not done anything in my normal routine that should have put any additional strain on my foot to cause this level of discomfort.
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You haven't indicated that you received anything more than probably a rather cursory examination at the walk-in clinic, and the doctor's apparent fixation on mainly ruling out gout and prescribing an NSAID certainly does not hold him/her up as either a crafty diagnostician or therapist.
You haven't indicated how many times a day you are taking the 800 mg of ibuprofen, or if that's your total daily dose, but 800 mg, if taken at once, though not unheard of, is a pretty hefty dose, and I would not generally recommend taking that much for too long of a period . . . unless you are bent on the potential for air-conditioning your stomach. Unless the ibuprofen has already created some GI distress, I don't know how you could have opined that the Prevacid was working.
You need to get to the source of your pain, not just its blunting. I think you need to see a podiatrist for a REAL diagnosis.
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