Brodie Abscess or other issue?

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I have posted already a few times on this board with various questions about my

3 year old who is being worked up (still) for PID. SHe has a history of

multiple pneumonias, pansinusitis, hospitalizations etc. She was diagnosed

with pansinusitis in March (hospitalized) and since she has complained of foot

pain. I have been charting her symptoms and the foot pain seems to occur most

frequently when she is acutely ill. The foot pain happens day or night and at

times, the pain is so severe she cries/screams, wakes in the night etc. Motrin

usually makes it better. When I look at her foot there is no swelling, redness

or anything unusual. In May I brought her in to have it x-rayed and it was

normal. Rheumatoid has been ruled out I think (they did some blood test for it

a couple of weeks ago). It is not correlated with dehydration.

She is on a host of anti-inflammatory type medications excluding prednisolone to

help calm any inflammation she might have. She has not been febrile for 3 weeks

now but has had symptoms that have included sore throat, nasal congestion,

headache etc. Along with these symptoms, on most days, she has complained of

this foot pain. She comes to me while playing and will lop her foot on my lap

and say it hurts. She appears to get relief when I press as hard as I can on

her toe but not always. She can be sitting in the car or falling asleep or

asleep and start complaining or screaming. Because of her age, I cannot get a

description of the pain nor the exact location of her pain which makes this even

more frustrating.

After doing some reading, I'm wondering if she has something like a Brodie

Abscess? Has anyone ever had this (or their kid)?

Thank you!