October 2016 - Surgery, CRPS, Spinal Cord Stimulator, Steroids

A lot has happened since my last post. The surgery was pretty much as expected. The tendons were completely severed and were trashed so the Doc transferred one from the inside of my foot. He took the one that would normally cause my big toe to flex at the knuckle. He performed the calcaneal osteotomy and also the gastrocnemius recession. Our biggest fear was realized and the all the surgeries have caused CRPS in this foot. It has gotten bad enough that I now need to get a spinal cord stimulator. I'm waiting for a surgery date.

One of the big side effects I experience from the Methadone is a major drop in testosterone. It's bad enough that I'm going to start taking a steroid soon.

April 2016 - Another surgery....and it's the big one.

So, I need to look and see the last time I updated this site. We seem to have come full circle and I now need to have the nasty calcaneal osteotomy on my right foot. I'm very worried about it. If I didn't mention it before, I've had two other surgeries on that foot over the last 12 months. I'll be posting again soon with more info and then updates throughout my recovery. Surgery is scheduled for May 20th.

*I just looked back and my last post was before the surgery in October. The doctor did a 4 hour surgery, fixed all the ligaments, two tendons (including using a cadaver tendon), and lengthened my achilles. He couldn't do the osteotomy because he felt the soft tissue wouldn't hold. Now, after no weight bearing for all of November and December, three months of PT, I have retorn it all because my alignment is off. Turns out is probably congenital as both of my old siblings have torn their peroneal tendons.