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  • I made my podiatrist laugh.....

    ...at my xrays.

    I ended up in the ER Christmas Day and found out I had a heel spur on the LEFT foot. Popped into a local podiatrist in my family group practice a few days later and yep, big heel spur.

    Painful cortisone shot and all is well.....right?

    Until a month ago when I started doing that hardcore workout Les Mills Bodypump twice a week and 45 minutes on the elliptical twice a week.....then the RIGHT foot started acting up. Figured I'd either overextended my Achilles during the back/hamstring track with the lunges or had a heel spur on the RIGHT. I iced and braced it for 5 days and it got better, but it just wouldn't 100% go away.

    So in I go to the podiatrist today to get monitoring xrays on the left and find out what's wrong with the right......

    Heel spurs. Back AND bottom of BOTH feet. The xrays look almost identical except the one on the bottom of my right foot has TEETH. TEETH!!! DEAR GOD IT HAS TEETH!!!!

    My podiatrist flipped back and forth and laughed. He wasn't being mean, I just think he wasn't sure how a patient could manage to do this. LOL

    Then gave me a PAINFUL cortisone shot.

    :\

    Good news is the left one is doing great and he's surprised I don't have any symptoms (only rarely does it even bother me) and the spur on the bottom of the left foot hasn't gotten any bigger.

  • #2
    So...

    Spurs...

    When do we enter you in the chicken-fights?

    <<Tries to run faster than the beating>>
    I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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    • #3
      Quoth dalesys View Post

      <<Tries to run faster than the beating>>
      Considering I'm still recovering from heel spur surgery (ok, removal of a Haglund's Deformaty, to be accurate), you'd better run...
      "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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      • #4
        Quoth dalesys View Post
        So...

        Spurs...

        When do we enter you in the chicken-fights?

        <<Tries to run faster than the beating>>
        You know what's funny....

        I actually live in Texas lol

        Podiatrist said 70% shot I'll never have to have it operated on....this morning it felt SO MUCH BETTER...but after walking around today it's aching a tiny bit but not bad at all.

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        • #5
          IANADoctor, and a diagnosis of teratoma requires pathological examination anyway, but .. well ... it has teeth.

          My guess is that it's actually a teratoma. (WARNING: some images may be disturbing.)

          Teratomas look kinda freaky, but they're not uncommon. Basically, some cells got confused somewhere along the way - possibly in utero - and made themselves into the wrong body part. In your case, cells in the location to be part of the heel became teeth instead!

          Regardless, while it's rare enough that this might be the first one your podiatrist has seen, it's also common enough that the path lab she uses will have seen plenty. So will the specialist (probably a surgeon, but it's up to you and her) she sends you to.

          And, of course, I could be completely wrong.

          If you like that sort of thing; you might ask the surgeon (if you go the 'removal' route) to put it in a little jar of alcohol or formaldehyde for you to keep.
          Seshat's self-help guide:
          1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
          2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
          3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
          4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

          "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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          • #6
            Oh no! It's not actual teeth! It's just where the bone's ragged where it grew.

            LOL

            I felt FANTASTIC on Wednesday.

            *sigh* Feels worse today. Especially in the back. But if I remember correctly, when I got my shot in January in the left foot, it wasn't 100% better right away. I'm not going to panic yet, and I know he said he had a hard time getting the shot in because it was so inflamed, so this one might need 2 shots. He said it happens sometimes. We'll see. I'm working at home doing my magic medical coding tomorrow, so I won't be walking quite as much and we'll see how Saturday at the gym goes.
            Last edited by Hermione; 06-21-2013, 03:20 AM. Reason: add'l info

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            • #7
              After another visit and another shot, no real relief in the right foot.

              Going back on Monday and looking forward to hearing the "s" word. :\

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