osteootomy/screw ppl - when did you start sleeping - Foot Problems Message Board

itsanewme · 06-19-2008, 06:58 PM

without your surgical shoe? surgery 4wks ago. Forgot to ask doc if i need to still sleep in the shoe. When did you start sleeping w/just the ace?

dncergrl53 · 06-19-2008, 07:09 PM

I did not wear a shoe at all the first 2 weeks. I just slept under a comforter with my foot out. My pin and incision was protected by a thick bandage for the first 2 week and now just a 2 x 2 bandage around the pin.

SCYogini · 06-19-2008, 09:10 PM

I didn't have a shoe, just a cam walker (boot). I slept in the boot for the first week. I think I took it off the second week but one time I woke up and my foot was having terrific spasms (actually jerking) and it felt like a nail was being hammered into my toe. (Funny thing since I did have a screw in my toe!!) I mentioned that to the doctor and he made no comment. I put the boot back on and probably kept it on for at night for at least another week. I think the spasms were also related to my "overdoing" it in the cam walker.

chic43 · 06-20-2008, 07:14 AM

I was like dancergirl...My foot was wrapped in a gauze type bandage which they made hard with betadyne and then that was wrapped with an ace bandage. I was given a boot, but it was too heavy, clunky, and pressed painfully on my pins....so, I never wore it. I got a surgical shoe, but didn't really use that either. I did use it at 7 weeks when I still couldn't get a shoe on my foot, and only to do a run to the store.

In fact, I'm thinking I might auction the boot on ****!! ;o)

Janesfoot · 06-20-2008, 08:57 AM

I never slept with the shoe. Like Chic43, my pins were very sensitive to pressure. I had the wads of gauze with the ace bandage to cover. My doctor said the shoe acts as a splint, so I don't know what benefit it would have while one is lying down, except to protect from bumps etc.