Hello and Welcome Lynn,

First of all I want to validate what you are experiencing. I am seeing a lot of similarities with what you describe to what I went through when I first injured my foot. I am only a case study of one, but still...

Second, if you happen to look at my profile please don't get worried that I have CRPS. I ended up with it after three surgeries to address an initial medical mishap.

So here goes....I ruptured my plantar fascia and it went undiagnosed since I am a small woman and don't play basketball. Within 2-4 weeks my foot got more swollen then I started having fasiculations in my left leg that eventually worked their way up my whole left side. I also had a lot of buzzing and tingling sensations. It was like my nervous system was in overdrive. This did eventually settle.

I firmly believe that my symptoms were related to nerve compression by swelling. Nerves are not very tolerant of pressure. It is great that they identified your stress fracture. That would certainly explain your pain. You will have to see if your other symptoms resolve once you are healed. Many, many people have spinal issues and compression and don't have symptoms. Hopefully you will get out of this unscathed.

You might consider taking 500mg of Vit C daily until your fracture heals. It has been shown to reduce the incident of CRPS with fracture and since your nerves are already on edge it is maybe not a bad idea. Also if you are still having too many nervy symptoms for comfort your doctor might be willing to put you on a little gabapentin to keep your nerves more calm as you heal. Hopefully, just identifying the fracture and getting weight off it will allow things to settle. Vit B and D levels are important to nerve health so that could be another thing to check.

Don't forget to elevate! It will help your foot's circulation while you are healing.

I hope you heal quickly!