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Dear Community,

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.

If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.

Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

*amandasw*

I didn't know that you've had bunion surgery too! That's funny that you had it done at 17, bc I didn't know that my feet were effed up till I was living in the dorms.

People looked at my feet and were like "uhhh... that's not normal" Embarrassed

Re: *amandasw*

  • haha it started in middle school actually, just the left foot.  My mom also has a slight one on that foot, but not too bad.  I finally decided to do it in high school (now that I think about it, I think I was actually 16) because it was so bad.  They fused the joint in my arch in addition to trying to straighten the toe.  I'm still self-conscious about it because it still doesn't look 'normal', but I don't have the arch pain I did.
  • Interesting. They cut my bones apart and screwed them back together. I still have 1 pin in each big toe.

    Would you do it again?

     

  • I have two screws in the arch area (you can feel one!), but none in the toe (although scars on either side where he sawed off some bone and tried to fix the tendons).  The pain/recovery was horrible and I wouldn't recommend it to someone who just casually thought of it for cosmetic reasons, but I guess I'm glad I did it because at the rate I was going it might be pretty bad by now.

    what about you?

  • I have 2 screws in each foot removed because they were sticking out too much.

    My recovery was so easy. I had the surgery on a Friday morning and was laid out Friday-Sunday, but by Monday I was hobbling around again. I had bad scarring though and had to go to my derm for injections.

    I'd do it in again a heart beat. I'm kinda considering going back to my doc to check about the little toe on my left foot. 

  • hmm, so I guess it must depend on the kind of surgery they do/how bad it is?  I'm hoping I don't have to do it again!
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