Just Got Back...

[StarLite]

From the doctor's with a lot of not so good news. He got the X-Ray results and it turns out the lump on my foot is a bone spur, so for now we're icing and deep massaging it for a week. Then I go back for an electronic treatment. On top of that I am borderline diabetic 5.7 over. My cholesterol and uric acid is high, great that means gout. Hubby said he knew it when I told him that I had a pain in my toe. So looks like I've got a lot of work ahead of me trying to get better.

Didn't get my license renewed or my health card changed but we'll try again on Friday, it was jammed packed today and I didn't really want to stand too long on that foot. Well I'm off, take care good folks and be good to your health

[Stella]

heh,heh... today my right ear whistled every time I blew my nose. Seemed pretty loud to me, so I asked my family if they could hear my ear whistle. Yes they could, and why was it doing that? Beats me, but I taught my grandson the song, "She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes", and I would blow/whistle my ear at the appropriate spots. He fell over laughing and wants to try this again tomorrow!

[Diat60]

Starlite, where is this bone spur located? I see that a possible treatment is cortisone and I'm definitely singing the praises of cortisone at the moment after I had an injection for my painful hip.

Stella, you're a good granny! Or, in every cloud there's a silver lining, eh?

[Rosaboobie]

I recently had a cortisone injection into my shoulder, where I could not even brush my hair before the injection, but it worked for me and I now have no pain whatsoever!

[StarLite]

Cortizone is not an option for me, remember that Cortizone isn't a cure it's a masking agent. I had 9 of them in my back, I got 9 months of and on relief, then when it wore off I was bed ridden for a year and couldn't straighten up. Cortizone is a glorified pain killer, it wears off like any other pain killer and when it does, you'll see the damage you do using your injury under masked conditions as opposed to letting it heal properly.

I was in Physiotherapy with a girl who had 110 injections on her spine, the Cortizone ate away her tailbone. When the doctor examined her he told her that she was walking on what was equivalent to every bone shattered in both her legs. When he operated on her to take out the tailbone, he had to hack away at the build up of cortizone around the bone. They had to replace the tailbone with a piece of steel, she has to keep going back for surgery to get the screws tightened because they keep coming loose.

So, no, Cortizone is not on my list of wonderful things I've done in my life. A lot of people swear by them, I do not. Thank you all the same.

At the moment I'm icing it and trying to get it down on my own till I do go to physio. I just hope it's not another thing I have to live with

[LadyKestrel]

Yes, there are side effect to long-term use of cortisone, but it does reduce inflammation (and thus pain) and allows the site to heal. I had a bad case of plantar fasciitis in both feet about two years ago. My right foot needed 2 injections and my left only 1, and I haven't had a problem since.