October 2012 Weddings
xxjen015
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Life Update
So the main thing I'm wanting to update on started back in January. I started having some major stabbing pains in both of my feet. It was manageable at first, but just kept getting worse. I made an appt with a foot doctor, which was 3 weeks away. It started getting worse and I ended up going to a different foot doctor who could fit me in sooner. She suggested it was the weight machines I was using and told me to stop and come back in a month. Well I didn't like that answer, so I kept the other appointment and went.
Doctor number two suggested nerve issues and put me on a nerve pain medication. He also referred me to a spine doctor to make sure there wasn't something there causing nerve issues. When x-rays showed no problem, he sent me for a nerve conduction study. I had this done and it showed that my lateral plantar nerve was unresponsive and my medial plantar nerve was delayed. These indicate tarsal tunnel syndrome. They also upped my pain medication.
Yesterday I went for a follow-up with my foot doctor. The medication I'm on is a class C drug, which means it isn't guaranteed safe during pregnancy, they don't really know how it will impact the fetus. He doesn't like the idea of me taking it while pregnant and said that the weight gain from pregnancy would most likely make the pain worse because it would increase the compression on those nerves. He wants to do surgery. These would be two separate surgeries, 2 weeks non-weight bearing, and at least 1 month in a boot. The surgery would release the tendon that is compressing the nerves.
I don't know what to do, I'm bringing H and doing the surgical consult on May 4th and getting a 2nd opinion on the 5th. My aunt is very holistic and does a branch of massage therapy called ortho-bionomy and has tried to put me in touch with someone who does it locally to try and fix it without surgery. I am fine with having surgery if that's truly what's best for me, but it's not guaranteed to work and it's putting off my plans for baby for almost another whole year. I'm so brokenhearted over that fact.
Sorry this got so long. Cookies to everyone who finished! Love you ladies!
Re: Life Update
I am sorry that you are going through this. I am glad that you went for a second opinion. I think that it is better to get your feet treated before having kids that way you don't have to worry so much about it after. Keep us posted on how the appointments go.
Hugs and a chocolate milkshake with salty fries.
Sending healing nestie vibes! and a hug!
I'm a firm believer everything happens for a reason. I hope there's another option that doesn't put off TTC as long.