Bunions!

[Anonymous]

If you are in pain or it is limiting your activities -- you need the surgery. I've had it. It wasn't great. I did have limited mobility of the toe joint for quite awhile, but I'm back to normal now. I can wear shoes without it cutting at my heel (where it was pulling from the bunion).

Really, I can do most anything I used to do but now I don't have the swelling and pain the next morning. It's not all gloom and doom.

OP, you do not want to have bunion surgery before your pregnancies b/c being pregnant makes the bunions worse (your joints loosen up and you are carrying extra weight - which means extra pressure on your feet - which means great malalignment and worse bunions after pregnancies - it doesn't go away when the baby is born). It wasn't until after the third pregnancy that I had the desire to do something about my foot.

If you are overweight -- that makes bunions worse too. I don't think losing weight will fix them, but it might lessen the progression toward pain.

I am glad I had it done, but it was not an easy or short process of recovering to 100%.