Pain in heel after coming out of surg shoe from bunion surg - Foot Problems Message Board

Teddie2 · 04-30-2008, 06:31 AM

I had been in a surgical shoe that only lets you walk on your heel to mid foot for close to 6 weeks. I started having pain in my ankle so my doc said ..time for a flat shoe.. he put me in a flat surgical shoe and said sneakers in two weeks. He has a foot support in the surg shoe as well. THis is the first time I am full weight bearing in 6 weeks. The thing is when I put my foot down barefoot and try to take a step my heel feels like I am walking on a bone.. did any one experience anything like that. I am not really supposed to be walking barefoot yet so I am wondering if he has me in the flat surg shoe to get my foot adjusted to being flat again before putting me in a sneaker.. I will ask him but don't see him now for two weeks.

jean2003 · 04-30-2008, 07:35 AM

I was also in the boot. It was longer than 6 weeks, I can't remember now. I did write it down. My ankle and around the front hurt so bad at the end. I was so glad to get the boot off. I think it is the way we have to walk in the boot. The foot is held in a position so we do not put weight on the toes and where the bunion was taken off. The doctor put me in tennis shoes. It hurt for sometime, but it does stop. It hurt getting the foot flat again. It does go away. I didn't go into the surgical shoe. It was hard to get tennis shoes on the first couple of days because my foot did not want to bend, but I made it. It did hurt getting the tennis shoe on for the first couple of days. The first day I had to wear sandles with the strap that I just put my foot in. Since you are in the surgical shoe you might be able to put the tennis shoe on. I just took the laces down as far as I could and opened the shoe and made it go in. It does hurt. Good Luck.
Jean

Titchou · 05-01-2008, 05:26 AM

Sounds like plantar faciitis. It's normal to have that after having the foot pretty much immobile for so many weeks. I had the same thing happen after a stress fracture that I couldn't walk on for several weeks. Try stretching the foot by pointing the toes several times every morning before you get out of bed. Then do the same thing several times a day. Just point and bring it back as far as you can slowly. That should help.

Teddie2 · 05-01-2008, 06:07 AM

Interesting what you both say.. It is pain but feels like there is a lump there. I was wondering if a bone spur developed but it seems like even it if it did it is realated to plantar facitis. I does not bother me when I am in the surg shoe with the foot support my doc put in -- I only feel it when I am barefoot and take a step or two it feels like a boney lump on the heel that digs into the floor.

jean2003 · 05-01-2008, 11:00 AM

Interesting. I also had bumps. About three, but mine were on the top between my ankles, where my foot bends. It hurt so bad just walking and moving my foot. the bumps and pain have gone completely away now. I think it was the position that I had to hold the boot in and walk on my heel for so long. I didn't think I could stand the boot anymore and was so glad when he said that I could come out of it.