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Old 02-04-2007, 01:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Bunion surgery?

Has anyone here had bunion surgery? I am considering it and would like to hear of any personal experiences with it, good or bad. Did it help? Did they come back after a few years?
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Old 02-04-2007, 07:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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My sister had it(she'd worn spike heels for years that messed her feet up) and, while the bunions are gone, she can no longer wear heels. The recovery itself took a few months. They haven't come back re: the 'deformity', but she still has discomfort.
My sister-in-law has bad bunions from being a dancer-to the point that her toes cross the second ones. She has no discomfort from the bunions that she's complained of and won't do surgery.
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Old 02-04-2007, 07:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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My wife (who was 53 at the time) had surgery for bunions in Oct 2005. There's at least two types of surgery, one where they just shave off the bunion, and a second where the cut the bones and realign them using screws. My wife had the second. She was off her feet entirely for a week or two, and on crutches until mid-January 2006. Her foot still hurt some until July or August. She says that her foot still feels odd, and that her toes don't bend due to the screw that was used to tie the bones back together.
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Old 02-05-2007, 02:12 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Thanks for the input.

I have genetic bunions; I've rarely worn heels in the past and really can't wear them at all now because of the extra weight on the front part of my foot. My main concern is I have a job that requires most of the day on my feet and the problems this would cause with recovery. I appreciate your input.
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Old 02-05-2007, 02:24 PM   #5 (permalink)
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My mom did it when I was a kid. She had the bone-realignment surgery. Took several weeks to recover (with two young boys... I don't know how she did it), but she was delighted with the results. She's very active now, in her mid-fifties, and has no trouble with her feet at all.
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Old 02-06-2007, 01:04 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I had it done at 18 on both feet, one foot at a time. Its genetic in my family although extremely bad for me. Left foot (the first one) was unsucessful, but the right one was, for the most part. There is a more limited range of motion in both toes (more limited in the sucessful toe), and while I don't generally experience pain anymore, I also don't run, or stand up all day long. Both were cut up and realigned, but the right one was a slightly different method (not sure what it was).

Recovery sucked. First day was ok. Then the swelling started and the good painkillers wore off. Your foot can swell so much inside the cast that you break blood vessels from the pressure against the cast. I believe that happened to the both of the backs of my feet. That went away after about the 3rd day. Bed rest for like 4 days, elevated foot for a week, crutches for either a month or 6 weeks. All of the callouses degenerated off of the bottom of my foot (and by degenerated, I mean they became a fine-fleshy-dead skin paste after it hit the bathtub for the first time after the cast came off), so it hurt to walk on the foot after the cast was removed because I had no padding, plus I had absolutely no calf muscle left. I had a pimp walk/limp for about another month or two.

All that said, I'd probably wait another 10 years, if you can, till they can just grow you a new foot and attach it surgically. No, I'm not kidding. I'm 23 now, if that matters.

I only mildly notice the pain-reducing results (I didn't have tremendous pain, but I had bunions as bad as my grandmother of 70, so it was mostly cosmetic I guess). If they hurt, try losing weight if thats an issue. If you're self conscious of them, just try to take better care of your feet in general and don't worry about it. I'd rather date a girl with pretty bunion feet than knarly normal feet any day (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! YOU WEAR FLIP-FLOPS EVERY DAY AND DON'T TAKE CARE OF YOUR TOENAILS AND DON'T WASH YOUR FEET).
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