Is it possible to break your foot without realizing it?

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So the flat part on the top of my foot, the region before my big toe and the two next to it, has been painful since monday. I felt slight discomfort when I was on the elliptical, just ignored it and finished my workout. It didn't hurt at all until later that day when I tried to stand up from the table when we were at dinner - all the sudden it was extremely painful and I couldn't walk on it.

I figured I just tweaked it exercising, and it would be fine in a day or so, but its actually gotten worse (throbbing pain even when at rest). No bruising, but visibly swollen and painful to the touch. I have to walk on the outside of my foot so now my ankle is strained, too, lol.

I've got a drs appt on thursday, but I'm wondering what I possibly could have done to it?!? I feel like if I had actually broken it I would have felt a specific painful event. Could it just be from overuse (I run/elliptical 7 days a week, 30-60 mins since, every day since January)? I know nothing about feet injuries, are there kinds of injuries you can get like this that aren't breakages?

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It is possible to break your foot without realizing it. I heard a story of someone I'm close to going down the stairs to get something then they got off the stair the wrong way and their foot was a little painful then the pain went away, but however the next day their foot was so painful that they couldn't even walk on it. They went to the hospital and the foot was broken. The kinds of injuries one can get without breaking something is a sprain or fracture. You possibly could have stepped the wrong way and not realized it until now (I did that a couple times) As far as the over doing it thing if you were use to doing heavy workouts like that then I would say no on your injury being caused by over doing it. Goodluck and I hope you feel better :)

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Is it possible to break your foot without realizing it?

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