Foot Whine

[cjsmith]

Finished physical therapy Monday. My calves are looser, the interstices between the joints at the ends of my metatarsal bones are looser, my ankles are looser, and my feet still hurt.

Four injections this morning - two interstices per foot. As before, the pain helped distract me from the neeeeeedle. I didn't pass out. Go me.

I suspect the mix wasn't perfectly mixed. My right foot didn't get much of the anaesthetic. It's sore. Left foot got lots of the anaesthetic and now feels as if my fourth toe is missing. The boundary gives very strange effects when I walk.

Next thing to try would be surgery.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh crud, what intrusive things to have to consider. :(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

(nod.) I don't know how bad the surgery would really be. It's in the middle of the ball of the foot: probably no weight-bearing for a while? Maybe no driving a car?

But I'm hopeful. If I do have to go that route, I at least have high confidence that it will fix the problem. When my feet are very sore and I can't run, I think of you. There's no annoying surgery that will fix RA. When I realize that, I don't whine nearly as much as I otherwise might.

[shadopanther.livejournal.com]

I would imagine no weight bearing for a while with surgery. Good luck to you with the injections... may your feet work well with out pain.

For my feet: I am glad my custom cast orthotics are helping out my troublesome metatarsal-big toe functional arthritis. There are still some not-so-good days... but mostly, I'm doing ok. One of the podiatrists I saw did try a cortisone injection in my left metatarsal to big toe joint -- the pain from that injection was the worst I'd ever felt & then the injection didn't really help the joint get any better. For my situation, I refuse to have any more cortisone injections in that joint. IF I ever get to the point where the orthotics are not working any more... then surgery will be another option: the surgery would be to break (owie!) my metatarsal bone so it then sits lower in the foot & doesn't have such a steep angle to the big toe bone.

-- For me for now, good shoes & custom orthotics & stretches are the way to go.

-- Shadopanther

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Those injections sure do hurt, don't they? Mine were also an anti-inflammatory (cortisone analog) into an inflamed and tender joint area (I have capsulitis as well as neuromas). They weren't directly into the joints, so maybe they weren't as bad as yours, but one of 'em hit the nerve and that's got to be somewhere high on the list. I got all red in the face and stopped breathing and stuff like that. Because I didn't make a sound, the doctor and the nurse both told me I was "doing sooooo well". I was tempted to tell them they have no idea what my menstrual pain is like.

I'm glad to hear the orthotics are working pretty well for you. Mine are not helping the ball of my foot, but are helping my knees, so I'll keep 'em. :)

I sure hope you don't have to have surgery. That sounds like a long-recovery one, waiting for the bone to knit. Ugh.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Is this the alcohol injection? Don't they have to do it 6 or 7 times?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No, this is another anti-inflammatory (plus random anaesthetic). Dr. A hopes this one will last much longer than the last one.