Re: Ball of Foot Pain - surgery

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Feet were the first thing for me. I would have loved to get 10yr in

before my feet flared, no such luck though! I had foot pain, mainly

ball of foot and along that fat pad area under the toes for about 1

year before I finally complained to my dr and was thankfully quickly

diagnosed after testing & xrays. I've not had any surgeries yet, but

figure some will be in my future most likely with being diagnosed at

just 28.

My feet hurt most days, less than before though. It seemed to start in

my feet and slowly spread out, as it's moved about the other joints the

feet don't seem to hurt as bad! LOL. One thing I've found that REALLY

helps is Temporpedic brand slippers. They're expensive ($70) but WORTH

IT. I highly reccommend them. My dr. said no bare feet anymore and I

told her about those and she said well great! My ID is true, I live in

them! They're thick, yet supportive and have a plastic/rubber solid

bottom; I wear them to take the kids to school even on occassion

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> Does anyone have metatarsalgia (ball of foot pain)? If so, have you

> had the osteotomy surgery? I have read in several articles that foot

> problems start showing up in some rheumatoid patients after 10 years

> of having the disease.

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I have ball of the feet problems. With me the problem is that I don't much padding on the balls of my feet. I don't remember how my podiatrist put it, but I guess I don't much fat on the fat pads of my feet. (Great the one spot, I need fat too. Haha.) I don't know if that's what you're referring to, but I know I'm supposed to wear diabetic shoes. I at want to try to find some cushioning for the balls of my feet. Susie kathy_d87 <kathy_d87@...> wrote: Does anyone have metatarsalgia (ball of foot pain)? If so, have you had the osteotomy surgery? I have read in several articles that foot problems start showing up in some rheumatoid patients after 10 years of having the disease.

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Hello , I've not heard that word but have got one arch eaten up on the left foot m and all my toes are drawed up ( hammer toes ) and very painfull but other than arch supports my foot dr said he wouldn't touch them unless it was an case of loseing them because of active raynards diease . johnkathy_d87 <kathy_d87@...> wrote: Does anyone have metatarsalgia (ball of foot pain)? If so, have you had the osteotomy surgery? I have read in several articles that foot problems start showing up in some rheumatoid patients after 10 years of having the disease. __________________________________________________

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> Does anyone have metatarsalgia (ball of foot pain)? If so, have you

> had the osteotomy surgery? I have read in several articles that foot

> problems start showing up in some rheumatoid patients after 10 years

> of having the disease.

>

Hi there,

I don't think that's what they called it, but I had surgery on my left

foot the summer of 1998... I had bad bunions, I had the slippage or

subluxation thing, hammer toes, the works.

They called it " same-day surger " and sent me home while I was still

numb. when the meds wore off I was in so much pain my mother had to

take me to ER. It was a nightmare. I had sixteen pins in my foot,

and they didn't tell me that to correct the hammer toes they have to

fuse the toes so now my toes don't bend. This is a pain because when

getting into a shoe if one of them curls I have to manually straighten

it out.

I did have a good result, but it was a real ordeal, which is why I

have not had anything done to my right foot-- the subluxation isn't so

bad and I can live with the bunion. I guess I didn't have much choice

with my left foot because it was bad, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. insist on

staying overnight even if you have to pay for it yourself because the

meds they can give you to take home are not strong enough!

When I got to er they gave me a morphine drip and even that wasn't

strong enough, they had to give me a shot of demerol, and after that I

had to be woken up every four hours to take pills.

Bear in mind that I am no wussy-- I'd had surgery on both hands

already. So do NOT let any doc trick you into thinking this is some

minor deal. It's not like a bunionectomy for normal people, it's big.

As I said I had sixteen pins and a screw (had the screw taken out in

2001).