You are reading a single comment by @Dammit and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Also @TotalShanner
Whose mtb shoes are you using. I now have Morton’s Neuroma (started last year) and it is never improved by going riding.
Who makes large toe box mtb shoes, anything that narrows around my toes compresses and antagonises the nerve.
Have been waiting for a month now for NHS referral and have had to resort to Vivobarefoot shoes, sandals and now have some Hoka trainers on order to help alleviate the compression in my foot.
Edited shoes for flat pedals.
dancing james
@Dammit
I'm struggling a little with dates, but I had my right foot operated on in Feb 2011:
Mine was very temperature dependent - but toward the end of 2010 it would literally stop me mid-walk and I'd have to wait for the pain to die down before I could carry on.
I asked my GP if it would get better, he said no, I decided on surgery - and I've never regretted it.
A few years later I had the left foot done, which had a much much faster recovery, but also it's been twinging a little recently so I may have to have that done again.
I lost sensation in the toes on both feet after the op, but that gradually came back and there are no blank spots anymore.
My view, based purely on what was explained to me - the neuroma is a reaction to the bones in the foot crushing the nerve, which then scars and forms the lump. You can address the compression (wider shoes e.g.) but the nerve is still fucked, and will hurt under certain conditions - the answer to which is to get rid of the lump.