I had it on 12-16 and it is now 1-30 and I am still having difficulties walking and the toe isn't really moving or anything. My stitches came out two weeks after the surgery, but the pin stayed in for 4 weeks. The pin removal was horrible! The doctor told me that I wouldn't really feel it, just some pressure. LIES...ALL LIES. It hurt like hell.
I had my surgery 4 months ago and one of the pins came out on its own (no pain) and the others are still there. The post-op pain is much more painful than the pre-op pain. If I would have known the pain after surgery, I am not sure I would have had it done. I still have severe pain whenever I put on any kind of shoe! Can anyone give me hope the pain eventually goes away, and when?
4 weeks after toe surgery the pin was removed, only 1/2 of pin came out and toe got infected. It is pretty much healed. The Dr. said he wanted to just leave the remaining 3" pin where it is, still stuck thru the bone. How common is this? What if pin dislodges?
This surgery is very painful, I had it 3 weeks ago and I'm still in a lot of pain. You need to make sure that during the first two weeks you really do very little on your feet. The pins are not coming out in my case. Do one foot at the time, otherwise you are going to be in terrible shape.
I'm not going to do the other foot until I'm unable to walk.
I had surgery to fix a Bunion and 3 hammer toes. The pain meds work great, they just do not give you that many. I guess for me the first few days are the worst. Seems to have healed fast. Mine has been about a month. Still a tiny bit swollen but really not that bad!! I just can not leave it alone. My foot sweats in that stupid boot. I have to air out my foot because I started to get a sore between my toe, cause they are all crammed in there. Anyway, today one of the pins came out. I knew it was loose. Since the swelling is going down the pins are getting loose. I was going next week to get them removed! I wished I could pull the other two out. I think if I do it, it would hurt less than if they do it. I am gonna ice my foot up real good before I go in there. The main thing is the whole thing is totally inconvenient!! I guess I am glad I did it!! I hope I did not hurt anything when that pin came out!! Maybe some people's feet don't sweat!! But mine, I have kept it clean and free from all that dead skin!! They would probably fuss at me!! Take care all you hammertoe babies!!