I sat on the couch with a friend yesterday watching videos for a few hours, and when I got up to leave, my foot hurt so bad that I had to limp my way home, and I woke up today and it still hurts just trying to bend my toes back and arch it kinda. I know I have fallen arches, but I didn't step on something weird or strain it, this literally happened while sitting on a couch. How the fuck does this happen and how do I fix it
Bad circulation, diabetes, or pinched nerve would be my nonprofessional guesses.
Yeah but I also go for walks or work in my garden every day. I walked a bit to this friend's house and the pain very pointedly only started during my visit and when I started walking back
Doubt it. I do vaguely remember feeling some pain in my foot while we were watching a video; I sit with one leg folded over the other kinda, so maybe at a really cringe moment in the video I grabbed it weird or something is my current assumption
You probably sat down long enough & cut off just enough circulation to cause some muscle stress or maybe get some small venous clotting. If it persists or doesn't get any better in the next few days, go get checked out.
This happened to me when I spent all night working on a paper last year. In my case it was plantar fasciitis and the solution was to massage it out by rolling a golf ball under my heel and arch, which after a week of pain and limping almost instantly cured it. This is probably what's going on here. The golf ball thing will hurt, (not sharp pain, but like a massage hurts) but it works incredibly well if you tolerate it for a brief period of time. In the future pay attention to how your ankles are oriented when you're sitting. I had had my feet sort of pointing in and flopped to the side with pressure on the ankle joint for about 3 hours before it started.
Interesting idea. The pain seems to be on the (fallen) arch of my foot, rather than my ankle, or was that the case for you as well?
I don't have fallen arches though... I don't know much about that... I do know that the tendon in your hip stretches all the way along the side of your leg, through your ankle and ends under your foot. That's the logic of an ankle problem being experienced through pain on the bottom of the foot
