Bunions

[Barmaid]

Ouch!!! For the last 2 years or so, I've really suffered with a bunion on my right foot. Probably years of wearing stupidly ridiculous (but very lovely) shoes. Just bought one of those splints. No idea if they work.

Anyone else suffer? What's been your solution?

[GenuineclAss]

Yes, Barmaid, I had something similar made of rigid plastic and it was impossible to walk in. It finally broke one day as I leapt out of bed to answer the phone, forgetting I was wearing it, so beware of that happening to you!

[Barmaid]

I dont know if it was shoes, Mikey, but that seems to be a regular diagnosis if you look on the web. It's odd that I have suffered over the last two years when I've actually spent v little time wearing anything other than slippers, flip flops or flat boots, but there you go.

[Barmaid]

Hmmmm, must remember that, I wont leap out of bed to answer the phone, but I often have to do so to save some small furry animal from being butchered at the top of the stairs.....

[mikey4444]

Barmaid....from what I understand, pretty well the only way that most women get bunions is ::::::

A bunion is most likely to develop when susceptible feet are repeatedly squeezed into narrow, pointed-toe footwear. The big toe pushes against the other toes, sometimes diving over or under them. As a result, the base of the big toe — the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint — juts or angles out from the foot.

[GenuineclAss]

I too have generally always worn flat shoes, so I think my bunions have come from my knock knees, which naturally make my feet turn outwards and make me bend forward as I walk.

I've had the bunion on my right foot for years and it's very deformed, but in the last three years the left foot is becoming just as bad.

Strangely, I've never had much pain in the right one, but the left one is beginning to bother me, which prompted the gel purchase - when I bought them, they came as a pair, so that's how I've used them.

[Barmaid]

Oh well, that's probably the case, but trotting round in stilettos when I was 18 I didnt give it a thought. Now I am old, with bunions.

[Barmaid]

I am going to try the gel things GC.

[mikey4444]

Barmaid....I think you have demonstrated how women can suffer for fashion !

[GenuineclAss]

Good luck, Barmaid, I hope you can get some relief!

ps Are you like Mr Rochester and have a mad personage in your attic? I just wondered what on earth would want to butcher the furries, upstairs in your house?

By the way, I keep seeing a picture of someone with half a red onion placed on a bunion! I've clicked on the photo, but never seem to find the matching article. I'll keep searching, as I'm all for natural medicine, even if it would be somewhat stinky!

[Barmaid]

Mikey, I was never fashionable. Just stupid...

GC-I have a very naughty cat. Who comes in through the bathroom window with his "catch" and either chases it round the house or kills it on the landing or under my bed at 3am. I think I'd rather have a Bertha Mason.........

[bednobs]

most CCGs will have bunion surgery on their restricted/low priority list. The NHS only offers surgical management in exceptional cases now. Not being able to walk/work owing to paindoes not constitute an exceptional case apparently

[albaqwerty]

nasty, painful things.

you have to scroll down quite a bit before you get to the exercises-

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/health/health-concerns/4-easy-foot-exercises-to-relieve-the-pain-of-bunions-11364050711164

[GenuineclAss]

True, Bedknobs! A friend of mine has just recovered from Breast Cancer and has been told that she doesn't qualify for any kind of Sickness Benefit, because her cancer is not terminal! Beat that for cruelty!

[ummmm]

Is that recent, Bednobs? MIL had hers done in the last couple of years.

[Barmaid]

TBH, if I can live with it, I'd not have NHS surgery. Far more pressing stuff on the NHS. I certainly cannot fault them tho for their response to my father's cancer and I shall be forever grateful for the speed and efficiency with which it was dealt.

[bednobs]

i can't answer for the whole country, but here the low priorities committee have had bunion surgery on the list for at least a couple of years

[angie55]

The NHS wouldn’t do my surgery, that’s why I went private. Money well spent.

[Bathsheba]

I agree Barmaid. My cancer was dealt with so fast, it sometimes seems like a bad dream I had! The NHS are wonderful.

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[pastafreak]

Any links for splints,cushions,etc
...PLEASE
I've got bunions ...they've never bothered me until now. Big toe is crossing over and causing a whopper of a blister on next toe. It's becoming more and more painful.

[Barmaid]

This is what I just bought Pasta, cant comment on anything other than the fact I had it on for 30 mins and the relief was palpable.

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