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.
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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