I had my operation about 10 weeks ago and I do appreciate it's early days, I do get very frustrated. The pain has gone and your video is reassuring that I need to be patient and just give it time!
I had my operation last week, Nov 2024. Have my big bandage off tomorrow. Can’t wait as it’s really rubbing. I’m looking forward to being able to walk with no pain 😊
I'm so glad I found you. I had the surgery 10 days ago on my right toe and I am delighted by the lack of pain! My husband and I are hill hikers and I hiked with him right up until the day before surgery. I am looking forward to joining him again once I have healed.
I’m 6 weeks post op from a bi laterial Cheilectomy and osteotomy…… and now the suggestion is a fusion as it doesn’t look like mine has been a success. This video certainly gives me hope that I can go back to being pain free. 👍👍
Cameron, it's good to see you recovering and getting out there more comfortably again. I hope there are numerous more soul enriching days in the hills to come for you.
Thank you for your frankness and considered thoughts on your progress. I am also grateful for your encouragement to "take it gently and steadily" and "to get back out there". 2023 was a year of operations: a Complete Knee Replacement in the Spring, followed by a Big Toe Fusion in December. [I joke that my job has changed to one of "professional convalescent"] Four weeks into the 2nd post-operative period, I feel daunted by the challenge of regaining any ability to hike. I miss the green spaces and the joy of completing a demanding pull. I guess the messages are 1. There is as much pleasure in a 10 km walk as a 25km walk. 2 there is as much joy in walking amongst the hills as there is climbing over the hills 3. One's body will tell you what can and can't accomplished.4. For Heaven's sake, lighten up; get over it and go for a wee walk......
I'm 74 and have the cartilage worn out in both. I'm getting surgery in the worst one soon. Hopefully the recovery isn't too bad! I live in Utah and we have ample hills. I'd like to get in shape and climb 11,750 foot Mount Timpanogos again.
Great inspiration to hear your journey. In August I had extensive left foot surgery, big toe fusion plus three other toes, different condition from yours though. However it is a long road to normality, but now exercising daily with it, back to my HIIT routine and building up my walking. Like you mention, different gait and using other parts of foot in compensation, gradually hoping for improvement. Have to work hard on this as getting fusions done on right foot in January! Not looking forwards to back to square one, but for future activities and my love of walking will be positive! Have worked in NHS all my career, so on my feet constantly, now at 68, still cannot sit still for long! Staying active keeps us fit in mind and body! Congratulations on your recovery, truly inspiring! Lived in the Highlands for a time, still miss those beautiful hills, nowhere comes close! Long may you continue being in them!
A week on from the same procedure at the Nuffield in Glasgow I am grateful we have a very high quality private health sector. Excellent team. A long road ahead but its over winter and I hope to be back to the hills and bike, both pedal and powered, in early Spring.
Best wishes for continued improvement. I had extensive realignment surgery on my foot 3 years ago & a new ankle fitted last year. Just done 5 days around the Cairngorm glens with full pack . I can relate to the long recovery & absence from the hills. The bike was also my saviour.
I’m so glad your foot has healed . I had my left foot done 10 months ago. I’m having my right foot surgery in early December. Part of me dreads it knowing I’ll be off my foot for at least 6 weeks. I probably won’t be able to wear my regular shoes for about three months. But I know I need this to be done. It’s encouraging knowing you have done well. Enjoy your winter. 😊
Mr. McNelsh, thank you for this video and to all the good folks who have commented. I too have had the fusion of the big toe about 6 years ago. The fusion was done using metal plate to join the big to to the metatarsal. Now, the metal hardware is causing pain. My question to the community: Has anyone had the fusion hardware removed, and of so, what are your comments?
Hi Cameron. Thanks for your videos about your experience with Hallux Rigidus and the bone fusion surgery/recovery. I have Hallux Rigidus on both feet. I will have my first bone fusion surgery in three days. I can't tell you how excited I am about this. Finally, a resolution for the years of painful walking. After 10 weeks of recovery on the first foot, my right one, I will have the same surgery on my left foot with an expected 10 weeks of recovery on that one. It's a lot, I know, but I'm determined to walk better in my retirement years. Again, thank you for your insight and positive thoughts. Wish me luck!
A great video! Probably the best I've been able to find on the MTP fusion. Sure there are a lot of Doctors recommending it but I wanted to hear it from someone who actually went through with the MTP fusion. So much good information. I'm thankful for this video. I'm a very active 53 year old male who has had osteoarthritis since early 30's and finally I'm to a point where orthotics and Hoka Bondi running shoes no longer enable me to get in the walks the rest of my body needs. This video gives me confidence to go through with the MTP fusion (recommended by two podiatrists I've consulted) Thank you Cameron!
Hi, I watched your post before my op on both big toes last Friday. I'm recovering well ,and your posthelped me to relax about the process. Thank you ☺️
Good to see you looking more like yourself Cameron, healthier and fuller in the face, dare I say a wee bit younger maybe. You had me, and I'm sure a lot of your friends & followers, worried there for a wee while. At least it's only your bones that are telling you to take it a bit more steadily. Fresh air perhaps posponing indefinitely, your days of dotage 😉👍 I, thankfully for me, have experienced a much milder issue, at the outset of the Covid Lockdown, a torn left shoulder rotator cuff, no idea how, just old age I reckon. It really put the mockers on me doing anything, including sleeping, or sitting in front of the tv, because of the nagging pain, weight of my shoulder and immobility. At 62, it has lately come home to me how left handed I am, eg trying to shave, wash & comb my hair, brush my teeth. Stuff I've done without any conscious thought or effort all of my life. I have always been naturally 'corry fisted', but of the era when infants were still being punished for using their left hand, raised to be right handed, confused when handling cutlery. It has taken me the full period of lockdown daily paracetomol night & morn and antiinflammatory cream, to get my mobility restored without discomfort. You are an inspiration to me, if you don't mind my saying so. At least I see hope for me, another ten years to go yet, hopefully in such good nick. More power to your sore feet, and that big toe!
Cameron, great that you're improving. I had a cheilectomy on both feet in my late 40's due to over use, cramming feet into climbing shoes etc...... I'm now 63 and although over the intervening years I've done a lot of running (UTMB, Lakes in a Day etc) , I've found that my feet have deteriorated again. Luckilymy Dr is fairly blasé about it all and just tells me to keep fell running and climbing hills and take painkillers if I need them. I think as we get older, we have to accept that some parts will give us some grief...
Cameron, thanks for your encouraging video. I had my big toe fused one week ago, just getting through the first week with the pain, but I’m hopeful that I’m heading in the right directions.🙏
Thanks for making this video. I have an arthritic big toe which limits my walking and is very painful. As you described it is like having a stone in the shoe and so very painful. I’m am anxious of the surgery but encouraged by your journey. I can also relate to the grieving. I’ve lost my old life and I grieve it every day 😢. Have you considered starting a support group? I would love to be part of something like that and share experiences with others. Feeling alone in suffering is awful. Just hearing you describe your journey has helped me but it would be good to help others too. Anyone else feel the same?
Thanks for sharing your experience, I too have started suffering from this and was looking for answers and I think your videos have explained more than any other on RUclips.
I have suffered on and off with Plantar fasciitis since my early 40's. Thankfully I manage it today courtesy of the insights of an NHS physio - who asked me to do a specific exercise which stretches the tendon, and then do the exercise with weight on my back - believe me it has made both of those tendons very durable - but I have to do the exercise daily, and it maintains where I am. Keep pushing, and keeping working on your recovery. Good to see you out and about in those darn hills again.
I bumped into you on this walk yesterday with my collie dog. I thought it was perhaps you, but didn't want to be nosey and ask inanely "do you have a RUclips channel?" Shame as would have been nice to chat further. Best wishes on your journey of recovery. Sadly my mohome blew a tyre on the road after that and I'm still being recovered now .... (not been to bed yet and it's 6am the next day). My partner is a fan of your videos and she mentioned you to the owners of the Duke of Gorden the day before and suggested they make an Aire. They have taken it on board and say they will. Hopefully see you there one day ;)
I had both toes fused 18months ago. I am now waiting for a toe joint replacement as it is one is not lined up properly and the other I am hoping to have done later if 1st goes well. Cannot get any comfortable shoes only walking boots and trainers. Shoes have to be totally flat which wanting in the reading of after care. I have noticed I walk on the side of my foot to compensate the rigidness. Didn't have any pain when carried out. Only in my sixties so hoping joint replacement will help. I can walk absolutely fine in walking boots. As toes don't need to bend.
I realize you’ve dealt with the aortic valve replacement, but could you give an update on the MTP fusion, two or more years on? You mentioned stubbing that toe, post op from the valve. Thanks.
Sure thing. Nothing much to report really. No issues at all with the fused joint. I did stub that toe a few weeks ago bu that's all it was - a stubbed toe. That sorted itself out within a couple of weeks. All fine otherwise.
Hello Cameron I've just been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my big toe on the left toe and a bone spur on the heel of my right foot. I'm doing excersise at the moment what the physio told me to do he said I could go for injections if they don't help in a couple of months. I'm pleased that you have got back to walking because that's what we love to do but I'm finding it difficult at the moment. I also have Planta Fisiatus I wonder if there's a connection there?
Hi Cameron, glad to see the operation was a success. My partner had the operation just over 48 hours ago, the first 24 hours afterwards she was relatively comfortable, but the 2nd 24 hours have been very very painful, even with the pain killers. Did you or anyone else you know of experience the same and if so, how long does the intense pain last? thank you.
Hi Cameron Thanks for your video. I had an unsuccessful chilectomy in May. Now having a fusion in a couple of weeks. How are you feeling a few years on? Do you walk with a limp?
No, not at all. I walk absolutely fine. If I do too much the top joint in the fused toe gets a bit sore but just through overuse. That joint was never designed to take that pressure but a couple of iboprofin sorts it out. Back hillwalking again. Have given up ballet dancing though...
Thank you for your story on all you went through to keep going. I'm facing surgery myself. Both feet us giving me issues. Do you know what arthritis you have that contributed to your foot problem? OA or RA?
I was thinking about doing this surgery I haven't worn shoes in 10 years it hurts too much what kind of results did you have and can you tell me the pros and cons that you have
Thanks for the update Cameron. My husband had this done 4.5 weeks ago. He is 44 so was not loving the idea of fusion but the pain was too much and the surgeon said it was the only option at this point. I am nervous for him, as we have two small boys 8 & 9 who are all go and sports and he walks about 2km as part of his daily commute, without doing anything else. He is working from home obviously for the first six weeks but I know he will feel the pressure to be back in the office after his six week check (at least a few days a week) and I am worried he will do too much too soon. Any advice for the 6-12 week mark?
He should be out of his supportive boot at about that point and into normal shoes. I’d recommend good supportive trainers with plenty of cushioning, like Hokas. Still important not to push it too soon so I would suggest he uses a bike if possible for his commute for the next month or so and very gently build up the walking.
There is a RUclips video with a foot surgeon saying that most people who have foot surgery on these issues and fusion are not young, and then says that it is a slow process, and even at 5 months you might not be able to work if you have a manual job, but at 12 months you should be 100 per cent better. And yet Cameron doesn't look much over 68, and yet he hasn't fully recovered. Go figure.
I had my op about 20 months ago and I have fully recovered from the op. Indeed, I was fully recovered from the op after about a year. The reason most people who suffer from Hallux Rigidus are older is because it’s a degenerative condition - the joint breaks down over a number of years. Younger people who suffer from HR have usually had some kind of trauma to the joint. I am 74.
@@CameronMcNeishOutdoorsok i appreciate it Cameron. If you look, from 8 minutes you said you haven't really tested it with harder walks, you wanted to do it gradually, and it was still 'improving' at 12 months. It just seems that adding it all up now you were there after say 12-14 months but until you replied I didn't know! It's reassuring that it takes a year and that all the estimates are right. I'm 52 and I could have had this surgery when I was 39, I guess it's more about running weighing 15 stone + and genetics that has done it more than age. I had the surgery 7 days ago. I don't expect to heal quicker because I'm younger but I might. Thank you, it's all very helpful. I'm subscribing to your channel and I'll keep watching
Just had my fusion one week ago. I’m losing my mind with the boot. It’s so heavy. Dragging it around is awful. I’m a runner some 30 years. Hoping I can run again when this is healed. The pain started about 3 years ago. Had a chealectomy. It was Okay but didn’t take the pain away. Had shots and still no relief. That’s why I opted for the fusion. So here I am one week later after fusion. Hate the sitting so much. Were you allowed to walk with the boot on after surgery or did u need a scooter for the house?
Patience is the real healer my friend. I wore the boot for six weeks and yes, I could walk round with it, but you really need to give the joint enough time to fuse together. If you don't you'll have further problems down the line.
Hi Cameron.. I'm on day twelve of my first toe fusion.. Got the OP conducted at Golden Jubilee after initially seeing the consultant at Cross House in Kilmarnock. I was supposed to be on a waiting list of 12 months to have the surgery there. I then got a call out of the blue asking if I'd consider getting the OP done at Golden Jubilee. I agreed, and it was conducted within 3 months of that phone call. The good news for me is that if this one's a success, then I'll be able to get the other one done within a few months' time. So far, the painkillers are dealing with the post-op symptoms. The problem I'm having is accepting that I've got to lay up... Getting dressing changed on Wednesday, then further consultation booked in for end of March.. Just like to thank you for your insight into the condition and the success of the treatment.. Thanks⁸
It will never be properly funded and staffed. They never are. This is the downside to socialized medicine where the Government oversees and controls healthcare. You could end up waiting years for a much needed surgery. Like the RUclipsr Cameron says, he preferred not to wait and went to a private doctor and paid for it himself or he used his supplemental private health insurance plan. NHS is the pits and we should all go back to private health insurance plans and get the government out of our healthcare. NHS should be shut down and done away with. Socialized medicine is just another marxist scheme to control our lives and wellbeing. The Government can't be trusted for the most part. 😯
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I had my operation about 10 weeks ago and I do appreciate it's early days, I do get very frustrated. The pain has gone and your video is reassuring that I need to be patient and just give it time!
I had my operation last week, Nov 2024. Have my big bandage off tomorrow. Can’t wait as it’s really rubbing. I’m looking forward to being able to walk with no pain 😊
Just about to under go fusion surgery, found your video really helpful, thank you 👍🏻
I'm so glad I found you. I had the surgery 10 days ago on my right toe and I am delighted by the lack of pain! My husband and I are hill hikers and I hiked with him right up until the day before surgery. I am looking forward to joining him again once I have healed.
I’m 6 weeks post op from a bi laterial Cheilectomy and osteotomy…… and now the suggestion is a fusion as it doesn’t look like mine has been a success. This video certainly gives me hope that I can go back to being pain free. 👍👍
Great outcome, Cameron. Had an ankle fusion 13 years ago and at 75 years young I do a 6 mile walk every day. Lang may yer lum reek.
Cameron, it's good to see you recovering and getting out there more comfortably again. I hope there are numerous more soul enriching days in the hills to come for you.
Thank you for your frankness and considered thoughts on your progress. I am also grateful for your encouragement to "take it gently and steadily" and "to get back out there". 2023 was a year of operations: a Complete Knee Replacement in the Spring, followed by a Big Toe Fusion in December. [I joke that my job has changed to one of "professional convalescent"] Four weeks into the 2nd post-operative period, I feel daunted by the challenge of regaining any ability to hike. I miss the green spaces and the joy of completing a demanding pull. I guess the messages are 1. There is as much pleasure in a 10 km walk as a 25km walk. 2 there is as much joy in walking amongst the hills as there is climbing over the hills 3. One's body will tell you what can and can't accomplished.4. For Heaven's sake, lighten up; get over it and go for a wee walk......
Thanks. Having both toes fused over these next three years, beginning a long journey soon with this health issue
Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful video. Your words gave me hope.
I'm 74 and have the cartilage worn out in both. I'm getting surgery in the worst one soon. Hopefully the recovery isn't too bad! I live in Utah and we have ample hills. I'd like to get in shape and climb 11,750 foot Mount Timpanogos again.
Great inspiration to hear your journey. In August I had extensive left foot surgery, big toe fusion plus three other toes, different condition from yours though. However it is a long road to normality, but now exercising daily with it, back to my HIIT routine and building up my walking. Like you mention, different gait and using other parts of foot in compensation, gradually hoping for improvement. Have to work hard on this as getting fusions done on right foot in January! Not looking forwards to back to square one, but for future activities and my love of walking will be positive! Have worked in NHS all my career, so on my feet constantly, now at 68, still cannot sit still for long! Staying active keeps us fit in mind and body! Congratulations on your recovery, truly inspiring! Lived in the Highlands for a time, still miss those beautiful hills, nowhere comes close! Long may you continue being in them!
A week on from the same procedure at the Nuffield in Glasgow I am grateful we have a very high quality private health sector. Excellent team. A long road ahead but its over winter and I hope to be back to the hills and bike, both pedal and powered, in early Spring.
Best wishes for continued improvement. I had extensive realignment surgery on my foot 3 years ago & a new ankle fitted last year. Just done 5 days around the Cairngorm glens with full pack . I can relate to the long recovery & absence from the hills. The bike was also my saviour.
I’m so glad your foot has healed . I had my left foot done 10 months ago. I’m having my right foot surgery in early December. Part of me dreads it knowing I’ll be off my foot for at least 6 weeks. I probably won’t be able to wear my regular shoes for about three months. But I know I need this to be done. It’s encouraging knowing you have done well. Enjoy your winter. 😊
Mr. McNelsh, thank you for this video and to all the good folks who have commented. I too have had the fusion of the big toe about 6 years ago. The fusion was done using metal plate to join the big to to the metatarsal. Now, the metal hardware is causing pain. My question to the community: Has anyone had the fusion hardware removed, and of so, what are your comments?
Hi Cameron. Thanks for your videos about your experience with Hallux Rigidus and the bone fusion surgery/recovery. I have Hallux Rigidus on both feet. I will have my first bone fusion surgery in three days. I can't tell you how excited I am about this. Finally, a resolution for the years of painful walking. After 10 weeks of recovery on the first foot, my right one, I will have the same surgery on my left foot with an expected 10 weeks of recovery on that one. It's a lot, I know, but I'm determined to walk better in my retirement years. Again, thank you for your insight and positive thoughts. Wish me luck!
A great video! Probably the best I've been able to find on the MTP fusion. Sure there are a lot of Doctors recommending it but I wanted to hear it from someone who actually went through with the MTP fusion. So much good information. I'm thankful for this video. I'm a very active 53 year old male who has had osteoarthritis since early 30's and finally I'm to a point where orthotics and Hoka Bondi running shoes no longer enable me to get in the walks the rest of my body needs. This video gives me confidence to go through with the MTP fusion (recommended by two podiatrists I've consulted) Thank you Cameron!
My pleasure. I can understand your wariness and it's good to get as much advice as possible. Good luck with the op.
Good news! Great come back! Inspiring!!
Hi, I watched your post before my op on both big toes last Friday. I'm recovering well ,and your posthelped me to relax about the process. Thank you ☺️
Great news Susan, all the best for your recovery. Golden rule is not to push it. Patience is the key.
God bless this guy im 52 and have this condition on both toes
Me too, I'm 47 my right is more advanced than my left. I would prefer to have the surgery to shave off the spurs instead of fusion.
Such encouraging and sound advice. Thank you.
Good to see you looking more like yourself Cameron, healthier and fuller in the face, dare I say a wee bit younger maybe.
You had me, and I'm sure a lot of your friends & followers, worried there for a wee while.
At least it's only your bones that are telling you to take it a bit more steadily. Fresh air perhaps posponing indefinitely, your days of dotage 😉👍
I, thankfully for me, have experienced a much milder issue, at the outset of the Covid Lockdown, a torn left shoulder rotator cuff, no idea how, just old age I reckon.
It really put the mockers on me doing anything, including sleeping, or sitting in front of the tv, because of the nagging pain, weight of my shoulder and immobility.
At 62, it has lately come home to me how left handed I am, eg trying to shave, wash & comb my hair, brush my teeth. Stuff I've done without any conscious thought or effort all of my life.
I have always been naturally 'corry fisted', but of the era when infants were still being punished for using their left hand, raised to be right handed, confused when handling cutlery.
It has taken me the full period of lockdown daily paracetomol night & morn and antiinflammatory cream, to get my mobility restored without discomfort.
You are an inspiration to me, if you don't mind my saying so.
At least I see hope for me, another ten years to go yet, hopefully in such good nick.
More power to your sore feet, and that big toe!
Cameron, great that you're improving. I had a cheilectomy on both feet in my late 40's due to over use, cramming feet into climbing shoes etc...... I'm now 63 and although over the intervening years I've done a lot of running (UTMB, Lakes in a Day etc) , I've found that my feet have deteriorated again. Luckilymy Dr is fairly blasé about it all and just tells me to keep fell running and climbing hills and take painkillers if I need them. I think as we get older, we have to accept that some parts will give us some grief...
Cameron, thanks for your encouraging video. I had my big toe fused one week ago, just getting through the first week with the pain, but I’m hopeful that I’m heading in the right directions.🙏
Good luck. Just remember to take it easy. Don't rush it. These fist few weeks are crucial.
Thanks for making this video. I have an arthritic big toe which limits my walking and is very painful. As you described it is like having a stone in the shoe and so very painful. I’m am anxious of the surgery but encouraged by your journey. I can also relate to the grieving. I’ve lost my old life and I grieve it every day 😢.
Have you considered starting a support group? I would love to be part of something like that and share experiences with others. Feeling alone in suffering is awful. Just hearing you describe your journey has helped me but it would be good to help others too. Anyone else feel the same?
Thanks for sharing your experience, I too have started suffering from this and was looking for answers and I think your videos have explained more than any other on RUclips.
It is great to see you back out in the hills, Cameron!
Just had this done 10/10/2024. I had large sacks of fluid as a result of the issue. Removed three ganglion cysts as well.
I have suffered on and off with Plantar fasciitis since my early 40's. Thankfully I manage it today courtesy of the insights of an NHS physio - who asked me to do a specific exercise which stretches the tendon, and then do the exercise with weight on my back - believe me it has made both of those tendons very durable - but I have to do the exercise daily, and it maintains where I am.
Keep pushing, and keeping working on your recovery. Good to see you out and about in those darn hills again.
Had my right fused 12 weeks ago. Getting there!
I bumped into you on this walk yesterday with my collie dog. I thought it was perhaps you, but didn't want to be nosey and ask inanely "do you have a RUclips channel?" Shame as would have been nice to chat further. Best wishes on your journey of recovery. Sadly my mohome blew a tyre on the road after that and I'm still being recovered now .... (not been to bed yet and it's 6am the next day). My partner is a fan of your videos and she mentioned you to the owners of the Duke of Gorden the day before and suggested they make an Aire. They have taken it on board and say they will. Hopefully see you there one day ;)
I had both toes fused 18months ago. I am now waiting for a toe joint replacement as it is one is not lined up properly and the other I am hoping to have done later if 1st goes well. Cannot get any comfortable shoes only walking boots and trainers. Shoes have to be totally flat which wanting in the reading of after care. I have noticed I walk on the side of my foot to compensate the rigidness. Didn't have any pain when carried out. Only in my sixties so hoping joint replacement will help. I can walk absolutely fine in walking boots. As toes don't need to bend.
I realize you’ve dealt with the aortic valve replacement, but could you give an update on the MTP fusion, two or more years on? You mentioned stubbing that toe, post op from the valve. Thanks.
Sure thing. Nothing much to report really. No issues at all with the fused joint. I did stub that toe a few weeks ago bu that's all it was - a stubbed toe. That sorted itself out within a couple of weeks. All fine otherwise.
Ty for this
Hello Cameron I've just been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my big toe on the left toe and a bone spur on the heel of my right foot. I'm doing excersise at the moment what the physio told me to do he said I could go for injections if they don't help in a couple of months. I'm pleased that you have got back to walking because that's what we love to do but I'm finding it difficult at the moment. I also have Planta Fisiatus I wonder if there's a connection there?
Hi Cameron, glad to see the operation was a success. My partner had the operation just over 48 hours ago, the first 24 hours afterwards she was relatively comfortable, but the 2nd 24 hours have been very very painful, even with the pain killers. Did you or anyone else you know of experience the same and if so, how long does the intense pain last? thank you.
Hi Cameron
Thanks for your video.
I had an unsuccessful chilectomy in May. Now having a fusion in a couple of weeks.
How are you feeling a few years on? Do you walk with a limp?
No, not at all. I walk absolutely fine. If I do too much the top joint in the fused toe gets a bit sore but just through overuse. That joint was never designed to take that pressure but a couple of iboprofin sorts it out. Back hillwalking again. Have given up ballet dancing though...
@@CameronMcNeishOutdoors Probably no more long jumping either! But seriously, your video is very encouraging. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your story on all you went through to keep going. I'm facing surgery myself. Both feet us giving me issues. Do you know what arthritis you have that contributed to your foot problem? OA or RA?
If got bad toe joints too from work .Maybe the planters faciatius is from it being rested too long then used .glad it's gone well for you
You are fortunate that it worked for you. Some of the less fortunate, like myself, have had their life ruined because of it. It is NOT for everyone.
I was thinking about doing this surgery I haven't worn shoes in 10 years it hurts too much what kind of results did you have and can you tell me the pros and cons that you have
apparently, it works for some people. I would do anything to be able to have my old foot back, even with the pain I had.
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Thanks for the update Cameron. My husband had this done 4.5 weeks ago. He is 44 so was not loving the idea of fusion but the pain was too much and the surgeon said it was the only option at this point. I am nervous for him, as we have two small boys 8 & 9 who are all go and sports and he walks about 2km as part of his daily commute, without doing anything else. He is working from home obviously for the first six weeks but I know he will feel the pressure to be back in the office after his six week check (at least a few days a week) and I am worried he will do too much too soon. Any advice for the 6-12 week mark?
He should be out of his supportive boot at about that point and into normal shoes. I’d recommend good supportive trainers with plenty of cushioning, like Hokas. Still important not to push it too soon so I would suggest he uses a bike if possible for his commute for the next month or so and very gently build up the walking.
There is a RUclips video with a foot surgeon saying that most people who have foot surgery on these issues and fusion are not young, and then says that it is a slow process, and even at 5 months you might not be able to work if you have a manual job, but at 12 months you should be 100 per cent better. And yet Cameron doesn't look much over 68, and yet he hasn't fully recovered. Go figure.
I had my op about 20 months ago and I have fully recovered from the op. Indeed, I was fully recovered from the op after about a year. The reason most people who suffer from Hallux Rigidus are older is because it’s a degenerative condition - the joint breaks down over a number of years. Younger people who suffer from HR have usually had some kind of trauma to the joint. I am 74.
@@CameronMcNeishOutdoorsok i appreciate it Cameron. If you look, from 8 minutes you said you haven't really tested it with harder walks, you wanted to do it gradually, and it was still 'improving' at 12 months. It just seems that adding it all up now you were there after say 12-14 months but until you replied I didn't know!
It's reassuring that it takes a year and that all the estimates are right. I'm 52 and I could have had this surgery when I was 39, I guess it's more about running weighing 15 stone + and genetics that has done it more than age. I had the surgery 7 days ago. I don't expect to heal quicker because I'm younger but I might. Thank you, it's all very helpful. I'm subscribing to your channel and I'll keep watching
Just had my fusion one week ago. I’m losing my mind with the boot. It’s so heavy. Dragging it around is awful. I’m a runner some 30 years. Hoping I can run again when this is healed. The pain started about 3 years ago. Had a chealectomy. It was Okay but didn’t take the pain away. Had shots and still no relief. That’s why I opted for the fusion. So here I am one week later after fusion. Hate the sitting so much. Were you allowed to walk with the boot on after surgery or did u need a scooter for the house?
Patience is the real healer my friend. I wore the boot for six weeks and yes, I could walk round with it, but you really need to give the joint enough time to fuse together. If you don't you'll have further problems down the line.
Suffering for years surgen wants to do to both feet at the same time what do you think
Go for it.
If you had needed to use the Scottish NHS, who would still be waiting.
Sadly that's absolutely the case.
Well maybe if it was properly funded and staffed he could have got it quicker under the NHS.
Hi Cameron.. I'm on day twelve of my first toe fusion..
Got the OP conducted at Golden Jubilee after initially seeing the consultant at Cross House in Kilmarnock.
I was supposed to be on a waiting list of 12 months to have the surgery there.
I then got a call out of the blue asking if I'd consider getting the OP done at Golden Jubilee. I agreed, and it was conducted within 3 months of that phone call.
The good news for me is that if this one's a success, then I'll be able to get the other one done within a few months' time.
So far, the painkillers are dealing with the post-op symptoms.
The problem I'm having is accepting that I've got to lay up...
Getting dressing changed on Wednesday, then further consultation booked in for end of March..
Just like to thank you for your insight into the condition and the success of the treatment..
Thanks⁸
@@WildWestladhow you doing now? It would’ve been mr shah who done your surgery - he’s a nice guy
It will never be properly funded and staffed. They never are. This is the downside to socialized medicine where the Government oversees and controls healthcare. You could end up waiting years for a much needed surgery. Like the RUclipsr Cameron says, he preferred not to wait and went to a private doctor and paid for it himself or he used his supplemental private health insurance plan. NHS is the pits and we should all go back to private health insurance plans and get the government out of our healthcare. NHS should be shut down and done away with. Socialized medicine is just another marxist scheme to control our lives and wellbeing. The Government can't be trusted for the most part. 😯