The Symptoms of Morton’s Neuroma
A common burning sensation in your forefoot is one of the evident signs of you suffering from Morton’s Neuroma. You might feel like taking off your shoes and rubbing your legs. The front pad of the foot can become extremely sore at the end of a long day or after a bout of rigorous exercise. However in severe cases, the pain may even occur while you are simply walking around or even when at rest. The pain can be accompanied by a feeling of numbness in you’re foot. The numbness may come with the pain or sometimes even before the pain comes in.
Such nerve damage in the foot is usually accompanied by tingling, burning, or numbness. The spot where the discomfort is typically prevalent is the meeting point of two nerves between your third and fourth toe area. There are no outward signs visible for this as this is not really a tumor but rather a collection of inflamed and bunched nerves. The feeling of a stone in your shoe or a sock bunched up in your shoe is quite common. Applying pressure to the interspaces between the third and the fourth toes can result in a sharp and immobilizing pain. Some studies have show that Morton’s Neuroma may be just as painful as childbirth.
In the case of Morton’s Neuroma, a session of night pain is usually rare. Pain attacks come generally when you move around more and especially when you are in tight binding footwear. The symptoms generally do not come on all of a sudden. They progress quite gradually. It may first occur only when you are wearing uncomfortable shoes or undertaking on any overly aggressive activity. The best thing to do is meet with your foot and ankle doctor and find out if you may have Morton’s Neuroma. It will help you to check things out in the early development stage as this reduces the need for more invasive kind of treatments like surgery.
Is there a shoe or insert that I can buy to help my left foot? My doctor said I have Morton’s Neuroma and gave me some pads to wear in my shoes. They did not help at all. My right foot does not seem to be a problem. Do you treat the ball of the foot or the toes?
There are shoe inserts that you can wear to try and move the pressure of the morton’s neuroma but they only work to a limited degree. Elevating the toes is the most common method since to much to pressure could have been the cause of the neuroma in the first place. The Injections have helped many people that I know personally but the shoe inserts offered very little relief
I have found that MBT shoes relieve the pressure from the front part of the foot. This is especially true of he area that connects the toes to the foot. This is where I experience pain.
The shoe seems to move the weight further back onto the mid and heal part of he foot. It also gives great arch support. I also suffer from extremely high arches. Inserts just did not do the trick.
Good luck.
I had a mortons neuroma 7years ago and tried everything from the insole to the pads they put just under your toes to elivate them but none of this worked, i didnt want to take the jags as i knew too many people who had them and they didnt work, so i had the operation was up n about 1 month later the pain was gone was the only thing that worked for me, but its a temp fix as i now have the same again but was a good 7 years.