4 Years Since Surgery!
11 years ago
Monday, June 28, 2010
QUESTION?????
Is anyone able to fully bend their toes the way you could BEFORE this surgery??? It has been 6 months since my surgery. Although I had limited mobility in my joints before, I cannot bend my toes anywhere near what I could before. I have done toe exercises and wiggled my toe manually as instructed by my doctor and STILL they do not bend. They are stiff and the slight movement they do have is not a straight bend but a crooked weak bend, if that makes sense. There is also a soreness in my joints that doesn't go away. I'm curious as to whether this is a common, permanent side effect to this surgery or maybe I just got the short end of the healing stick. I'd love to hear from you. Of course I will also speak to my doctor!
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Hi! I'm curious to know if you addressed the issue to your doc about the pain in your joints that doesn't go away.
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ReplyDeleteI did actually. The pain has gone away (I guess I should have posted that) but as far as mobility, my joints still only bend at the tip. You know how your hands have a tip joint and a middle joint? Well, the middle toe joint does not bend, it is straight as an arrow. The issue I have with this is if I bang my toe (which I did this morning), because they don't bend it hurts like hell. Because normally your toe would give a little, but mine do not budge. I went for steroid shots, supposedly if I keep letting her "wiggle" the needle, it should break up the scar tissue but I find it so traumatizing and unsettling that I only went once. I'm thinking of going tomorrow....
I am having this surgery done on March 11th and I admit I am a little scared. Do you have any regrets?
ReplyDeleteI recently had bunion and hammertoe surgery on my 2nd and 3rd toe. On the day that I was scheduled to have the cast and pins removed I fell flat on the floor of the doctor's office bending both the pins in my toes. My toe 2nd toe was twisted to the right and the 3rd toe bent down. This was extremely painful but the pins had to come out. My doctor took xrays, numb my toes and pulled out the pins. My toes popped back in place, but the after pains were bad. The doctor says they are not broken, but It feels like they are! My toes are very stiff, throbbing and sore. I have taped them to keep them straight!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, I almost had a heart attack reading this, I hope you're ok! If you feel like your toes are floppy I can tell you mine felt that way for a long time. If he says t hey aren't but that feeling makes you think they are, hopefully it is just the same feeling I had and that does settle itself with time. Feel better!
ReplyDeleteAs I said in another comment here, my doctor told me today, 2 months post op, that the second joint of my bones were fused, so I will never be able to move them. I wasn't told of this before the surgery. I was only told that I'd be able to move and use my toes. Yeah, the last joint, but not the second. Ever. Supposedly, it won't be a problem for balance or sports or anything, but I *really* would have liked to have been informed of this before surgery. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteSo if any of you out there are going to have surgery, like the one above coming up in March, know that this is a very real possibility. I'm not sure if they all do the surgery this way. It's my toe next to my pinky toe. My mom had hammertoe surgery on two toes, the one next to the big toe and the middle one. They both bend like normal, but she can't raise them up on their own... can pull with her hand or something, but has no ability in the toes themselves. So you might want to ask your doctor all of these kinds of questions if it matters to you.
I am still happy to have done the surgery - at least if the rest of the healing goes all right. I still walk a little funny, the bottom of my entire right foot is sore from walking funny, my bad back has taken a beating from walking funny - but anyway, if it gets back to normal except for the bending joint, yeah, absolutely it was the right choice. It was painful and a problem before. It needed to be fixed somehow. It was just going to get worse. And if I can truly do anything without balance being affected, which it seems will be the case soon (soon being withing a few months?), yeah, okay. I wish I'd known before how long of a process this was just so I could mentally and otherwise prepare myself. But now that I'm in the thick of it and have had time to wrap my brain around all of it, okay. I can do it, and I'm glad.
THANKS AGAIN for all your posting, Tootie. Sooo helpful.
:-)
Val
I had this same surgery in early January 2012. Same 3 toes on right and same 2 on the left. My ring finger toe on the right foot seems to stay swollen all the time and it hurts underneath my foot where the toe connects to the foot. There is a joint there as well and it hurts when I walk on it. Have you experienced that? I worry that my Dr maybe put the implant too close to a nerve or something. I would be so freaked out if he had to do surgery again.
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