Begone, Foul Foot Pain!

[cjsmith]

I got my first four alcohol injections today. Seven more visits, spaced a week apart, and the four nerve bundles that have caused me so much trouble will be dead.

I forgot to rub my toes just beforehand to create a memory of what the sensation feels like. I will never again have sensation in some of my toes. I guess I'll have to depend on the memories I already had.

Yes, it hurt. It's a deep pinching/stinging/bruisy feeling... unique. The doctor was right when he told me the anti-inflammatory injections I had already had were worse, though.

Now it feels like half of each foot is asleep. Cold, tingly, numbish. Apparently even if there is no anaesthetic included, an injection into the metatarsal interstices will often have a numbing effect anyway -- something about the nerves being "spread apart" was what I heard. (My doctor is not big on detailed explanation.) So I left the office walking funny, as I have every time I've visited there. :-)

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Alcohol injections?

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that it's really not anything fun like shots of Jaegermeister.

Re: Alcohol injections?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That'd be a waste of good Jaegermeister. I wanna taste it going down! :-)

Yeah, the alcohol kills the intermetatarsal nerve bundle. I have tumors on four such bundles -- noncancerous, but they hurt -- so nerve death will be a good tradeoff. It's interfering with my SQUARE DANCING goshdarnit! That's just not acceptable!