@summertime4 I had the surgery in 2012. My memory is about shot... so much other stuff has happened in between then and now. .. a lot of anesthesia that caused some memory loss. My best guess is 4-6 injections over about 3 month period... I think they were DEPO-MEDROL (methylprednisolone acetate), but not positive. Most of them not painful. It got to where I could barely walk a few feet. If I had known about physical therapy back then I would have tried it before surgery. It took about six months to recover from surgery. After surgery for such and such time you cannot put any weight on your foot and then it is like 10 minutes allowed so many times a day. Sitting with foot elevated is just no fun. I had to use my recliner and a couple of pillows under my leg.. I slept in my recliner for a while. I am a get up every 30 minute and move around person.. hard for me to sit still.

With this last neuroma I had more injections than I can remember over about a 9 month period .. with promises of an mri ordered from my podiatrist... before I gave up and went to a orthopedist that gave me the worst injection ever.. so gave up on him and found a very good podiatrist in another town. (it pays sometimes to ask friends for recommendations... especially a nurse)

No more injections... just getting to the correct physical therapist. In addition to the pins with tens machine attached he also used some torturous looking tools to help stretch out the muscles that had tightened with the pain. I had already had some numbness in my outer side of foot from a herniated disc in my back in 1993. My middle toe has no feeling except for the very tip.. really weird. The rest if my foot I feel. Sometimes I have the pin and needle sensation throughout my foot.. especially if I forget to put the cream on the top of my foot at night. I plan on keeping up the PT as needed and a and surgery as long as possible.

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