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Topic: Morton's Neuroma ARGH! |
bboywannabe
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 posted Nov-30-2007 08:55 PM
  
kinsavanswer from Marc Katz, DPM
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Podiatry-984/husbands-MN.htm responds to question about cryo for unsuccessful MN surgery
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ShelleyM
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posted Dec-01-2007 06:47 AM
Update on running since alcohol shots finished:I started back run/walk about 6 miles at a time. My foot seems to be getting worse everytime I go back out. The burning is starting to come back. I'm not sure if it is from the neuroma or the bunion. I'm going out now for a 6 miler, if I can make it. I would opt for surgery to begin with, if I had to do it over again...
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jessicas921
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posted Dec-01-2007 06:58 PM
Has anyone had the ligament release surgery to fix their neuroma? If so was it successful?
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Baby Blue
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posted Dec-03-2007 11:03 AM
Thanks, Jessica, Foxy, and Kinsav for the insight on my "zinger." Yes, that's a perfect description!I went to my dr today for another post-op. It will be 6 weeks tomorrow. My swelling is down to half the size it was 2 weeks ago. My dr said that the zinger is still phantom pain, and that the surgery was definitely successful. He did a number of clinical tests, and all is good. I'm just healing slower than some. The bunion actually seems to be healing quicker than the neuroma, which he said is common. Apparently the nerve branch where the nerve was removed is still aggravated. If the zinger doesn't go away on its own in another month or two, he said we can try PT, but he's not expecting that. The phantom pain that I had experienced earlier was like two burning hot electrically charged pokers being driven into the tops of both affected toes, and this isn't the same, so I just thought the phantom pain was gone. Chic, I used frozen peas after the surgery. Ok, sometimes I switched to corn.  They sent me home from the hospital with an ice pack that I could strap onto my foot, but it would re-freeze into a big chunk of ice. Our refrigerator just makes ice cubes, and not crushed ice, so I stuck with the vegis. Since I wasn't up and around, it was easy to keep the vegis on the foot (or rest my foot on top of the vegis).
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chicahuss
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posted Dec-03-2007 04:36 PM
Baby Blue,I'm glad to hear that your swelling is going down, and hopefully your phantom pain will as well. It sounds like this condition, surgery, etc. requires a great deal of patience--uggh! Foxy, Please do keep us updated on whether or not you are getting another neuroma between your 4th and 5th toe. I really hope that is not the case, and it is something else.
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kinsav
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posted Dec-04-2007 05:11 PM
Baby Blue - Congrats on hearing a positive report from your doctor. I hope your pain continues to dissipate. I am 4 weeks post-op tomorrow and will finally be released to drive and swim, so that should help lift my sprits if nothing else. I think what I am feeling is also a combination of phantom pain and continued nerve irritation. I also think my slow recovery is in part due to the fact that I had both feet done at once. I did it because I did not want to be out of running twice and for 6 months, but - for anyone considering it- in hindsight, I don't recommend bilateral surgery. It has been so hard to get around and to heal ... especially when you have 3 small kids that don't stop! Good luck to everyone recovering or considering surgery. I will try to keep you up to date with my (hopeful) progress too.
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chicahuss
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posted Dec-05-2007 03:52 PM
Even though I keep reading/ hearing it is rare to have a neuroma in each foot, it seems like there are quite a few of us on this forum who have bilateral neuromas. I'm curious about two things: Did you all develop one and then the other later, or did they both come on at the same time? My right one started in March, got bad in June, and then I got my left one about 2 1/2 months later. I sometimes wonder if the left one partly came on because I was favoring that foot so much.Also, have your doctors said any thing about an increased chance for reoccurence? I haven't asked my doc (I think I'm afraid he might say yes).
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Baby Blue
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posted Dec-06-2007 09:39 AM
Chic, I first hurt my knee in Dec of 1995. I spent several months in PT, etc. to get back on track. In Oct of 1996 I ws golfing, and my knee was hurting, so I was "babying it." Suddenly, I had the sharp pain in my rt foot, which turned out to be that I triggered the neuroma that had probably been there for a long time, but never caused me any pain. It was likely triggered by my change in the way I walked or golfed because of my knee. So, when I started feeling the pain in my left foot from the neuroma in March of 2007, I'm quite sure that it had also been there for a long time, but never bothered me until I changed my gait. It seems to make sense that when we have to conpensate on one foot or the other, the problems then start with the "good foot."My dr said that once the nerve is gone, there should be no recurrence. There could be a thing called a stump neuroma that later develops, but he said that doesn't happen too often (if I remember right). If the alcohol injections had worked, he said that there would not be recurrence ( once it was dead, it was dead for good), and since the dead nerve would still be there, no stump neuroma would develop.
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jessicas921
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posted Dec-10-2007 08:48 PM
I"m concerned that what I have isn't a neuroma. I can pinpoint my pain and it is DIRECTLY beneath the 2nd metatarsal. At times the pain moves between my 1st and 2nd met. I'm concerned a neuroma is not what I have because it is uncommon to have a neuroma there. So, if it's not a neuroma will all of these injections do anything? Am I waisting my time? I'm so sick of feeling pain/discomfort with every step. I tried working out today for the 1st time since being diagnosed and it was was very uncomforatable. I would LOVE to put on a pair of heels!!!!!! Thoughts from anyone???????
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foxyw
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posted Dec-10-2007 09:26 PM
Jessica - You might want to check out the symptoms for metatarsalgia. I have read that it is often misdiagnosed as a neuroma. Also, could it be a pressure point from the bone? Neuromas are formed between the bones and in my experience, sometimes they hurt so much it's hard to tell exactly where the pain originates.
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ShelleyM
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posted Dec-11-2007 05:26 AM
Jessica-Mine is between the 2nd and 3rd. I think it can actually be between any of them. It is just more common in the other places.
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