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I started getting these sharp pains in my left toes, it happens in the second and third toes at the bottom of foot base, metatarsalphalangeal joints

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

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Pain: common causes for foot pain would be metatarsalgia another possibility would be a Morton's neuroma.

Answered 3/9/2020

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A member asked:

I started getting these sharp pains in my left toes, it happens in the second and third toes at the bottom of foot base, metatarsalphalangeal joints

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

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