Morton's Neuroma

No, haven't gone forward with the alcohol injections, yet. Went back to the doctor and he wanted to try 2 more steroid injections. I don't seem to have as much pain, particularly when wearing good shoes, but after spending a week in Hawaii running around in flip flops, the pain's back with a vengeance. Will be making an appointment soon, after my schedule settles down.

My wife has gone with the alcohol injections and they have worked well. She goes to Issaquah foot and ankle where they use an ultrasound to image the oversized nerve then shoot alcohol into it. She usually takes about three shots to reach the point where the pain is gone but she still has some feeling. The pad under the forefoot helps and never wearing tight(width) shoes is huge.

No, haven't gone forward with the alcohol injections, yet.  Went back to the doctor and he wanted to try 2 more steroid injections.  I don't seem to have as much pain, particularly when wearing good shoes, but after spending a week in Hawaii running around in flip flops, the pain's back with a vengeance.  Will be making an appointment soon, after my schedule settles down.

Speaking of flip flops you should check the Vionic ones. I bought pari on the suggestion of the foot doctor I am going to and I love them.

OK good to know. I have an appt in a week with may doctor to discuss the alcohol injections.

So a follow up to my situation. I ended up having the surgery. 8 weeks ago today. Healing up nicely, but still have some healing to do. Was given the green light to be more active and go snowboarding, just need to careful still. Went for a skin today (just did some laps at Hyak to test things out) and felt great. Had some soreness due to the healing but the sharp pains are now gone. So glad I had the surgery. Doctor said mine was a pretty decent sized one and that I made the right call to have the surgery. Can post a photo of the neuroma looks like if anyone wants to see it. Its pretty gnarly.

Good to hear it is working well so far. Orthotics and several rounds of steroid injections have not been able to resolve this for my wife, so she is having it removed soon.

I can't say I am interested in seeing the photo.