u/DerpolIus

I developed sesamoiditis at the end of March 2026, so it’s been about 4 months now. I’ve seen both a podiatrist and an orthopedist, but frankly neither have been much help.

The podiatrist did:
- An X-ray (nothing on it)
- Custom orthotics (targeted my flat feet, but didn’t offload the sesamoid at all)

The orthopedist did:
- An MRI (revealed mild medial sesamoiditis)
- Prescribed prednisone and meloxicam (marginal effect, temporary)
- Technically prescribed PT but they never called me

I bought Hoka Bondi 9s and Hoka recovery slides, which are very comfortable, but I still don’t seem to be getting any better. I’m using dancer’s pads too, which are comfortable, but again, I’m still not healing. I’m also trying to do PT at home, but to be honest, without professional guidance, I’m skeptical that this is actually doing anything.

When I first got symptoms, it was just the feeling of a tendon in my first MTP snapping to the side, then I inflamed it and it was painful for 2 weeks, and I’ve been painless ever since. About 3 months. But that tendon is still snapping to the side and the MRI still showed marrow edema. So in a nutshell, I haven’t actually gotten any better since I first developed symptoms. Zip. Nada.

I’ve been out of play (fencing) for about 3 months. And at this rate, it’s starting to look like my sesamoid will never heal past being “mild”. Online, they claim it takes a few months to heal, but this seems pretty fake to me considering I’ve had absolutely zero improvement in that time. So yeah, is there actually any hope for me to go back to fencing soon? I can’t and won’t wait a year.

And no, I can’t get a sesamoidectomy. It’s incompatible with fencing.

I finally got an MRI after waiting for months and at long last was given an official sesamoiditis diagnosis. They said that it’s mild, with only small impressions of edema and sclerosis on the bone. Great news, right?

But the thing is, it’s been “mild” for 8 weeks. I’ve done everything right. Gotten custom orthotics with a metatarsal pad to relieve pressure, worn them in my shoes without fail, completely stopped doing my sports or really any activities on my feet, and it feels like I have nothing to show for it. It doesn’t even hurt anymore, and yet still it’s no better than when I first got it. Still “mild”.

I’ve had this injury for about 4 months now, and although there was a 2 week period of time where it hurt too much to stand on, that time is long since past, and I feel like a mild injury should be healed by now. But it’s not, and I feel cheated.

How much longer am I going to have to stay sedentary? Letting my skills and body atrophy and wither away until I’ve lost all my years of progress? I have half a mind to just run my damn foot with its “mild” injury through a woodchipper and just be done with it. And now I’m pretty sure the other one is on its way out too.

I recently built my first gaming PC, and I feel like it’s time for a change. My previous PC is on Linux Mint, and while I have it set up just the way I want it, I’ve been curious about KDE Plasma and Wayland.

But I also need my new PC to act as my home workstation too, and I don’t want to deal with weirdness that might come from an Arch-based distro when I’m trying to work.

To those of you who switched from LM, what do you think of the change? Is CachyOS stable and reliable enough for general use by a person with only a middle-of-the-road grasp of the command line?

I started having discomfort in my flexor hallucis longus tendon (or one of the other ones that go across the first MTP) at the end of March 2026. I saw a podiatrist about it in mid April. An X-ray showed nothing abnormal except growing arthritis in both first MTPs (and I’m only 24! Yay genetics!) but it was worse on my good side and unlikely to be causing the issue. So he more or less blew me off when I brought up sesamoiditis, but put in an order for custom orthotics anyways. Fast forward to now, and the orthotics still haven’t come in yet.

During this time without access to orthotics, I wore a boot for a week, stopping when it started causing severe knee pain (another fucked up joint I have), and my recovery plateaued. I also kept fencing, my sport of choice, during this time though I severely limited how much I did. I think it was slowly, but surely, getting better. Or at least not getting any worse. But when I woke up today, the discomfort had gone from, well, discomfort, to outright pain with seemingly no trigger. The consensus on here seems to be that if you don’t let sesamoiditis heal the first time around, you have it forever, and it seems like I just majorly fucked up.

I should have stopped fencing, I should have kept the boot on, I should have just bought the expensive orthotics while I wait for my custom ones, but I didn’t. And now my chance for recovery has passed.

So, those of you who had to give up a sport or activity you were hopelessly in love with because of this disease, how do you cope? Is there ever a time you’ll stop missing it?