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Appointment with foot doctor this morning. Key points:
1) Anti-inflammatory injection is hopefully a cure. Therefore, I am told to run a short distance two days in a row, and report results. If this does not work, this injection was not a cure.
I suspect it's not. I still have twinges and tingles, and I haven't gone running yet.
2) If this doesn't work I have two remaining options for treatment.
Surgery: Remove affected nerves. Weight bearing OK right away, recovery four to six weeks, elevate the foot (feet) a lot, special shoe(s) for that whole time, NO DRIVING A CAR. Most patients are fine after this, but some develop "stump neuromas" and require the alcohol injections to kill those.
Alcohol Injections: Kill affected nerves. Takes fourteen weeks just to deliver all the injections, but I can commute to work and to any OTHER doctor appointments without help. Most patients are fine after this, but some have nerves that just won't die and require the surgery to remove them.
(About that commute. Anyone who says "public transportation" gets to hear me laugh at you. I'll figure out a font that's big enough to be audible, and I'll type HA HA in it.)
1) Anti-inflammatory injection is hopefully a cure. Therefore, I am told to run a short distance two days in a row, and report results. If this does not work, this injection was not a cure.
I suspect it's not. I still have twinges and tingles, and I haven't gone running yet.
2) If this doesn't work I have two remaining options for treatment.
Surgery: Remove affected nerves. Weight bearing OK right away, recovery four to six weeks, elevate the foot (feet) a lot, special shoe(s) for that whole time, NO DRIVING A CAR. Most patients are fine after this, but some develop "stump neuromas" and require the alcohol injections to kill those.
Alcohol Injections: Kill affected nerves. Takes fourteen weeks just to deliver all the injections, but I can commute to work and to any OTHER doctor appointments without help. Most patients are fine after this, but some have nerves that just won't die and require the surgery to remove them.
(About that commute. Anyone who says "public transportation" gets to hear me laugh at you. I'll figure out a font that's big enough to be audible, and I'll type HA HA in it.)
