Mortons Neuroma - Agonising pain! Anyone help?

Scarlet Fez wrote:tino_11 thanks for the interest but alas at 50 I am a little to mature to change.It is weird that I have no problem with the FOOT in any other activity at all. I am not saying it is MN but I will consider seeing a specialist to clarify it. I would never consider surgery as for my one/two weeks of 'Agonising' pleasure a year it would not be worth it.
Hopefully there is something that can be suggested. Perhaps its just about pain tolerance but it seems to get more managable the longer the ski week goes on.

You are still young enough to decide that if you want to get another 30 years or so skiing, that it is worth doing whatever it takes.

From what has been discussed above, if you choose to avoid surgery, then a visit to CEM would seem to the next best step. I would also consider that to be a reasonable alternative, even if you were considering surgery. Bandit has been through the same process, made the effort, and achieved a result.

From a pure engineering point of view, there is no reason why a ski boot should hurt, when trainers or day shoes do not. It isn't logical.

Hi,
I have never suffered with any foot problems apart from skiing. I always found hire boots extremly painfull as a child with loss of circulation, cramps, and on one occasion loss of feeling in the toes for about six months afterwards.

Once i moved onto my own boots the problem got a little better but it wasnt untill i discovered pro feet that i have truely been able to ski pain free.

They spent 3 hours adjusting,grinding,blowing,custom insoles to get a good fit. Best money i have ever spent.

If i go straight into an agressive,steep,cruddy or icey slope first thing i can still get cramps however as long as i have a half hour cruise first thing i find the boots are like a glove for the rest of the day and i dont even undo or take them off at lunch time.
Might be worth spending some money and getting somebody qualified to have a look. Unfortunatly a lot of shops have so called book fitters but in my experience a really knowelable one is like rocking horse poo.

Scarlet Fez, I'm assuming that you've read up on Mortons Neuroma. If so, you will know that once the nerves become damaged, they won't spontaneously become repaired. If your feet become damaged as a result of poorly fitting boots, then there is the risk that impairment will be permanently carried forward and affect all other activity. The surgery I had 2x was to remove damaged nerves, so most of the toes on 1 foot have no feeling. Without a clinical diagnosis, you don't know what needs fixing, to make the pain stop. It may be another issue entirely.

Like Bandit I have had 2 neuromas removed from 1 foot, but had this done before I started skiing. The first 2 times I had hired boots and kept getting them changed until I found a pair that were comfortable. When I bought my boots due to the numbness in your foot that you are left with, I chose boots that with hindsight were too big. My last 2 ski trips have been an experiment with different and numerous insoles and even a different thickness of socks for each foot, and although this is probably not a perfect solution, I find that I am getting to a point where I can keep my boots on all day in reasonable comfort, instead of them being either too loose or too tight.

God I'm rubbish searching on this thing! CEM works for a specialist sports foot company in the Bicester area, can someone remind me of the name of it please?
The daft thing about my problem is that up until the pain starts my boots fit me like gloves, but once the devil pain comes I know I need to get the boot off for a bit. Once its off and pressure relieved, Im fine ok within 5 mins for a couple of hours with no problems.
Enough of my problem Im boring you!

Scarlet Fez

Cem can be contacted here.....

http://www.solutions4feet.com/

It's his biz )

Thanks very much.

Taken me ages to get the details of the operation I had on my foot from my own Doctor!!
It was a Chevron Osteotomy to the first digit on my right foot, so armed with that I will see if I can get an appointment with Cem to see if that could have any bearing on my yearly agony!! Streuth it creeping up again, yippee!!