Living with Foot Pain

Eleven years ago I started to notice a slight ache in my right foot underneath the base of my big toe while running. I ran three or four times a week for maybe 3 or 4 miles at a time. I ignored it at first but after a few months when it started to hurt well after the run was finished I got new running shoes thinking this would solve it. Jump ahead (there isn’t much pertinent info during this time frame) 6 months and the pain now comes and goes all day and had developed to a burning sensation at night after I have been off my feet for a while. Long story short after numerous visits to the doctor and referal to poditary and a bone scan to confirm they decide to do a “small corrective surgery on the sesmodial bone” in my right foot. This occurs about a year after this all started.

Upon waking up from the surgery they inform me they decided to do a bone graft. Jump ahead past the last ten years and countless very frustrating visits with varoius poditarists I still have the burning sensation some nights, there will be random sharp shooting pains in that area whenever my foot feels like it or so it seems and now over the last year that area of my foot has started to swell as the day goes on (this despite me attempting to put it up more, getting new shoes and also trying some anti-inflamatory meds). However with every docotrs visit there is more of a focus of Why did they do this procedure (I don’t know!) than what to do about it. Today again another visit to a different doctor and again the “Other than remove it there is nothing we can do”.

So if anyone has heard of a bone graft on a sesmodial bone beofre please let me know and if someone reads this who has had one removed and can give me some more insight on to how it has helped or hindered them. I am trying to decide but I want to look into this as much as possible before letting them cut on my foot again.