What Causes Excruciating Pain And Swelling On Right Foot And Ankle?

Posted on Sat, 4 Jul 2015

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Question : my 85 year old friend is having excruciating pain on the top of her right foot it is swollen from the top to around your ankle from the inside of her arch. She cannot pu
t any weight on it at all. It is burning and stinging pain What can I do to help
and very painfulstinging she almost can't bear it

Answered by Dr. Ralf Von Seckendorff (41 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Nsaid mdication and x ray advisable

Detailed Answer:
Dear patient,

first advice would be some antiinflammatory/ pain medication with nsaid like ibuprofen or similar after checking with your local doc for contraindications. But also i would normally schedule an x ray to find the cause/ rule out any fractured bone or activated arthritis which might cause this.

Hope this is helping you , if you have any clarificatons you can get back to me, if this was helpful please kindly rate my answer. Best regards

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