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by Dana
(West Chazy, NY)
I was seen by a podiatrist who upon x-rays told me that the sesmoid bone in both my feet was in two pieces. He gave me a cortisone shot. Less than a year later, both feet ache, but in particular the left foot is in great pain. My podiatrist moved out of state and I had to be seen by a different doctor. After 5 months of waiting for an appointment, he came to the same conclusion....I have extremely flat feet, sesmoid bone in both feet in 2 pieces. He told me he felt I was born that way, instead of an injury. I had been losing weight and was doing 2 miles a day walking outside or on a running track, but now I've stopped walking and gained 35 pounds. This doctor said he does not like cortisone shots. He did a prescription orthotic. After several weeks of trying this orthotic, I stopped using it. It was too painful to wear it. The doctor ordered a bone scan but felt "the xray's were fine, the bone scan would tell if the bone is fractured." I thought 2 pieces meant fractured, but didn't question that comment. He said if there was a fracture we would do surgery and remove the bone. The technologist who did the bone scan asked me how I did this, by overuse or injury? Not sure what he saw, but he said the left was definately worse than the right. The doctor called and said I either had a bone fracture or bone bruise. He ordered a MRI. The result of the MRI apparently showed no fracture, but that
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University of Rochester Medical Center
American Academy of Pediatrics
Columbia University Department of Rehabilitation