My Toes Are Numb...

[gophergeorge]

Gopher, he's says you probably have Mortons Neuroma. It can go away on it's own, but you can get an injection for it.

Thanks...

Against some of the advice, I ran the half-marathon... 13.1 miles in 1:44:36, so I was pleased... toes are still numb, but not as bad. I'll give it another couple of days... I don't like shots!!!

[T Park]

toes are still numb, but not as bad. I'll give it another couple of days

gopher, fellow conservative, and brethern of the board.

Dont be stubborn.

See a freakin doctor tommarow.

I dont understand people's mentality when it comes to their health.

"Eh, Ill wait a couple days"


Just go and get it over with!!!!

[CosmicCowboy]

Gopher, he's says you probably have Mortons Neuroma. It can go away on it's own, but you can get an injection for it.

I had that really bad in my left foot...if your only symptoms are the numbness in the two toes I would let it go for now...try changing to shoes that are a little wider in the ball of the foot so that they don't aggravate the nerve where it passes through the joint...it's kind of like carpal tunnel in your foot...

mine started that way with the toe numbness but got worse and worse over several years...it especially bothered me snow skiing because of the tight boots and the flex/stress on the balls of the feet doing moguls...at times when I was really skiing hard the numbness would go further back into my foot almost to the arch...that was the sign to stop and get the damn boot off...if I didn't it would progress to an intense burning sensation in the toes/ball of my foot...I finally broke down and got the injections...they are fairly new...before that the only solution was surgical with a 6-8 week downtime which was simply not acceptable...it was a series of shots over several weeks...they inject a 2% alcohol solution around the nerve to kill it...it's kind of a "good news/bad news" treatment...the good news is that it never gets as bad as it used to get as far as the burning pain but the bad news is that my foot has never felt "normal" again...there is always some numbness in the ball of my foot...the other nerves in the foot were "supposed" to "fill in" for the nerve that got killed but it's been almost two years since I had the injections and the foot still feels strange...

[Shelly]

CC...I'll let my husband know you want to schedule an amputation...

[CosmicCowboy]

uhhhh....my foot feels fine...actually it's great...uhhh....never mind...