Big toe pain
A description of a discomforting feeling in or around the area of the big or great toe. This pain may sometimes be accompanied with swelling, redness or heat, but not always.
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A 46-year old asked:
What can cause big toe pain?
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A 30-year old asked:
What can cause big toe pain for 4 months?
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A 31-year old asked:
I get random big toe pain. What should I do?
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A 32-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Big toe pain?
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A 33-year old asked:
What are some causes of big toe pain that came out of no where?
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A 41-year old asked:
Tip of big toe pain, could this be deadly?
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A 33-year old asked:
What can I do about big toe pain when pressure is applied to the ball?
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A 47-year old asked:
What causes thumb and big toe pain?
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A 39-year old asked:
I have big toe pain at the second joint. Could i possibly receive a potential cause?
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A 41-year old asked:
Big toe pain one foot only. Bunion?
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A 46-year old asked:
What can cause big toe pain in joint?
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A 32-year old asked:
Big toe pain/tender when I press on the nail, need help!?
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A 31-year old asked:
Big toe pain near nail. What home remedy is good for this?
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A 25-year old female asked about a 28-year old male:
Left big toe pain on both sides for 6 months. Recently swollen. Looks like layers growing. Under toe. 28 and have psoriasis. Doesn't gel?
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A female asked:
I broke my big toe. Pain is still horrible after a week. Will I need a cast or boot?
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A 63-year old asked:
What can help relieve big toe pain known not be related to gout; I do have quite flat feet and am active.?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Big toe pain where the nail meets the skin hurts on the side hurts if anything touches it like wearing a sneaker or sock doesn't feel like a hang nail?
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A 38-year old asked:
What can cause big toe pain after fractured ankle surgery?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Big toe pain hurts on side of toe on top of nail if i touch it it hurts is it due to recently foot fractured or is it something else going on?
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A 28-year old male asked:
I am experiencing medial ankle swelling, ankle stiffness, big toe pain because of pressure, for 4days now, what should I do?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Hello, I have had numbness in my ( l ) foot for a yr all toes are involved except the the big toe, pain is in the ball of foot, my foot feels dead, ?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I am experiencing pain in ball of foot, foot tenderness, toe tenderness and foot pain. The following also describe me: Foot pain and Big toe pain. What should I do?
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A 44-year old male asked:
What's the best way to treat big toe pain, from what seems to be a white dot on the tip of my toe and what looks like bruising and tenderness? I haven't hit on anything, it just started hurting about a week ago?
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A 47-year old male asked:
Big toe pain (quality: warm to touch, pain in joint). Possibly gout. However, uric acid levels are always in normal range. What else could it be?
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A 24-year old female asked:
I am experiencing big toe pain (quality: pain in joint) and toe inflammation. The following also describes me: Difficulty walking. What should I do?
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A 28-year old female asked:
I am experiencing toe inflammation and big toe swelling. The following also describe me: Big toe pain, Toe tenderness, and Toe swelling. What should I do?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I am experiencing pain in ball of foot, foot pain, and excessive running. I am not experiencing big toe pain, numbness or tingling. The pain starts while I am running a race and it becomes difficult to step.
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A 20-year old male asked:
Feel a tendon or something moving side to side in base of big toe. Pain and sometimes burning sensation when walking was after slamming side of foot?
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A 58-year old female asked:
Big toe pain over 10yrs. No bunion, never swollen, no reduced movement or range, uric acid is fine, it just hurts BADLY sometimes. Recently feels like pain moving backwards into foot. What could this be and what imaging would you suggest?
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A 16-year old female asked:
When I flex my foot I feel a popping sound in my ankle and when I point my foot I feel pain at my 1st metatarsal by my big toe. Pain when walking?
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