Hello! I've been casually stalking this thread after a boxing injury 12 weeks ago. I pivoted very hard on my right foot, felt a sudden pain, and have been in pain since. The swelling is quite localised around the sesamoid area and at first I could not weight my foot or move my big toe at all. These days I can weight my foot, with pain, and bend my big toe, with pain. Owing to this pain and lack of full healing I tried to make a GP appointment, they told me to go to A&E.
A&E tell me that it's been too long, that a fracture would have healed by now, and initially tell me to try make another GP appointment. She also says that sesamoid bones aren't relevant/real (?!) bones and that "most people don't have them" . I say that I cannot make a GP appointment as they've told me to present to A&E, so she reluctantly offers me an X-ray.
This X-ray shows both a spur, which she says is a healing avulsion fracture, and my sesamoid in two parts. She says the separated sesamoid is normal, although she didn't know what sesamoids were in the first place, so I doubt her judgement.
She's told me me I may get some online physio, but since the injury was 12 weeks ago I will likely be rejected for it. I asked her what I should do and she just told me to go to my GP again.
Anyway, would love thoughts on whether her assessment of avulsion fracture (the spur) + normal seperated sesamoid is correct, or whether that is a sesamoid fracture.
Any advice for getting the NHS to take this injury seriously would also be appreciated.