New Foot Problems

So now I have a very painful ingrown toenail in the big toe. Yup, the same toe that I had the surgery on.

It is making it extremely difficult to walk normally. Heck, it's almost impossible to walk at all!

I can't put on a shoe without the nail digging into my flesh. I was considering buying new shoes a size or two larger to give me more room in the toe box, but wore Mike's very wide work shoes yesterday for a bit and was no more comfortable than in my own shoes.

I haven't done anything different to that toe than I did before the surgery. All I did was shorten the nail since it had grown out while in the cast. And I did that three or four weeks ago. And it's not too short or anything.

I do have a bit of nail fungus in that nail and it has changed the shape of the nail some. I think that, the realignment of the toe, and the extreme swelling that is still in the foot is what is causing the ingrown nail.

So Monday I will call the doctor to schedule an appointment. I had hoped Epsom salt soaks and the larger shoe would solve this but it hasn't so the doctor will have to take a look. Right now, it is less painful and easier to walk on if I'm out of my shoe so that is what I am doing this weekend.

Geesh.