There is some improvement

[cjsmith]

After thinking about it, I realize that my day to day life (walking around my office building) IS better now than it was before the surgery. Also, walking a little this morning after dancing last night, I notice I'm not "paying for" last night's dancing with horrendous aches this morning. So there is improvement, even if the pain isn't totally gone.

That might be just because I've had a long break. But it might be actual improvement.

I probably won't be able to run/hike/backpack again unless something else changes; I can't square dance without pain unless something else changes; but it's not AS bad as it was. That's something.

(Wonder if I can find a doctor somewhere who will give up on conservative treatments and do a permanent nerve block. It's been tried but it didn't take, and maybe a second attempt would work.)

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Just echoing the others:
Give it some more time
Try different shoes again, things have changed after surgery
You might want to try the nerve block again, later

All that said, I hope you feel better soon. Constant pain sucks always.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Time -- I seem to have given the impression that I was about to take my feet back to the factory tomorrow morning and demand a refund. Not that I wouldn't if I could, I suppose!

The whole shoe thing is a can of worms. By the end of the month I expect to be close to my new permanent shoe size, so I can go look for new shoes. Goodwill is going to have some really interesting things show up on their doorstep pretty soon. Those thigh-high heeled leather boots.... :-) ah, my younger days!

And yeah, the nerve block is something I could ask my doc about once I've settled down after surgery. She'd know whether it'd be worth trying.