Five years ago I had a bunion removed by a podiatrist.  After recuperating period, toes began to cross each other toward great toe so she did another surgery on the toes using pins.  It failed.  The toe next to great toe was grossly infected, took forever to get better, lost toenail which she said would grow back, it did not.  I then was referred to an orthopedic surgeon who did basically the same thing with negative results.  The procedure was different as he cut across the bottom of foot from little toe to great toe which he fixated.  The other toes he cut shorter so they wouldn't cross over.  Recuperation period was long and 2nd toe still had a purplish spot on it, not painful, but not right.  The 4th surgery was done as I had extreme pain on the side of my foot near the baby toe area and down.  That did not help.  I still have the pain on the left side of the foot and it looks like a bone protrusion.  It hurts to wear any shoe, and one foot is smaller than the other.  Because the great toe is fixed, it is regular size so it hits things or rubs things and it is painful.  I am 70, wore a surgical boot for 5 years and don't think i should be having this pain.  The ortho said he had never seen anything like it.  After 4th surgery, from the time it took me to go to my dr appt, 10 min drive, he looked at my toe after taking sock off and the 2nd toe had a black spot on top where the podiatrist said would heal and nail would grow back, never did.

 

Dr began pushing furiously on the black area and I find out it was a staoh infection.  That has been resolved and out of the blue, the toenail on toe next to that toe, #3, fell off.  No injury, no pain, no bleeding, just came off.  I wouldn't be concerned but it is on that traumatized foot.

 

I am at a dilemma, dr says he has never seen anything like it, can anybody help me?  I'm thinking amputation of toes, one or two of them.

 If anybody can help please.