On 12/13/2014 hckynut said: On 12/13/2014 sfnative said: <br /> My fracture toe has just started to feel better in the past 3 days, but the toe nail is nasty red underneath and it's rather loose: I think it's going to fall off at some point. Actually, at this moment, my toe nail situation hurts more than the fracture. LOL!
Thank you for your strengthening thoughts. You know I appreciate them so very much. I pray that this foot surgery in February will help my foot big time so I can get out and take walks!
God Bless - Rebecca
Rebecca,
Guess I must have missed something in your original post. I did not know that you had a fractured toe nor how that came about. After reading your original again I really don't know exactly why you were/are asking about a malpractice suit, and to which doctor. No need to explain this to me if you would rather not do so. Just got me confused.
I've had broken toes and I can tell you that the pain from the ones I've had were much less than having a "black toenail" until I relieved the pressure of the blood against the nail. No comparison in my book to a broken big toe and a "black toenail big toe".
As far as "toenails"? I have had black toenails on about every toe of both feet. Most have been on my left foot because it is "a full size smaller than my right foot". Needless to say I had to buy my running shoes to fit my bigger right foot. Thus the problems with the toenails on the left foot.
Realize this is blood under the nail and after having my Podiatrist relieve this for me once, I asked him the easiest way for me to do it by myself and if it was safe. He showed me how to do it at home and that is what I did with all the other toes with this blood under the nail.
Anyone that has had a black toenail under their big toe is well aware of how painful this can be, especially for the first 3 or 4 days. I remember sleeping with my injured toe/foot outside of even a sheet on top of it because the sheet caused enough pain to keep me awake.
Whenever I "did my own toe surgery" my wife would leave the room. She could not stand seeing blood squirting out from the whole I poked in my toenail after she watched me 1 time. Not an easy thing to do, but it relieved the pain much sooner than leaving the blood under the nail. Still have a toe that does not have a full nail because of several issues with this.
Major cause was running outside and downhill. My feet sweat a lot and my socks would get wet and then my left foot(1 size smaller) would jam the end of my shoe when running downhill. That was the major cause of most of them and it took me quite awhile to figure out the cause. When I ran on my treadmill I would get off and change socks and shoes when they got wet, and then go outside and run up some hills, and then back down without my small foot moving.
Threw in a bunch of rambling here, but not new for me, eh? Once I get started on something I can't stop myself.
I really hope this surgery you are having will give you the relief you are looking for with this issue. People don't realize how incapacitating it can be to have an issue with a toe, especially the BIG toe. So much balance and weight is dependent on those toes that until one has a problem they cannot totally understand.
My best to you with this,
John,
I feel an explanation is in order. The fractured toe, etc., was mentioned to Loves as we have corresponded on another thread. So let me get things straight.
My original post here as the OP was relative to my left knee replacement in May of this year by an excellent ortho surgeon. Unfortunately, during the surgery he injured the tibial nerve which has caused most of my left foot to be numb and I cannot move my toes. My surgeon admitted that in 20 years of practice this had never occurred. Additionally, I will just have to wait for the nerve to grow and repair itself. When it does, I will have painful spikey pain in my left foot. Am not there yet.
In the meantime, I was finally able to get a line on an ankle-foot ortho doc to address the badly dropped 3rd met head in my left foot (same side as the knee replacement). This met head drop is now severe and requires surgery, but we had to wait for me to rehab the knee, etc. When I went back to the ankle-foot doc for a follow-up in late October he said that because the entire bottom of my foot is numb and I am unable to move my toes, he cannot do the standard approach for the surgery which would be through an incision made on the bottom of the foot. He now has to make an incision on the top of my foot. This is problematic, because he must shave 4-5 mm off the bottom of the head of the 3rd metatarsal head from the top. I'm going to need all the good luck going into this surgery in early February.
Re my big toe nail on that same darn foot, thank you for all the information regarding your personal experiences. It all helps me to understand. What happened was that I had a procedure to remove the lateral nail margins on that big left toe nail because the nail shape was very domed and has caused me all manner of pain and some infections over the years. So this poor nail is trying to heal and what did I do? I removed a frozen loaf of dense gluten-free bread from the freezer with my bad right hand and it dropped right on that left big toe. No other toe, mind you. Just that post-procedure toe. Needless to say, it started to bleed again and hurt very, very much more than before. Went back to the podiatrist that did the nail removal from the sides and he said we should take a few films to rule out a fracture. I couldn't believe it! And sure enough, I had a fractured large left toe, so am in a boot and my toe nail is more reddish purple than anything else. And what you said about not even wanting a sheet on it is so true. it is extremely sensitive and painful.
Because we're going on our annual Christmas trip to the snowy Washington mountains and a little German village, I didn't want to go in and have the nail removed now, but will probably do that right after the first of the year. It's already loose, so I hope it won't be a big deal.
So that's the story. Thanks again for sharing your toenail experiences!
~Rebecca
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