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Originally Posted by Becca71
When I fell a few weeks ago, we thought I re-broke my foot, but it turns out that the first metatarsal fracture never healed. Yep. Come to think of it there never was another imaging done to check.
Which means, in order to really be able to get 100% of whatever my functioning is going to be able to be with CRPS I'm going to need surgery. Except surgery with CRPS is highly likely to cause a flare. But not having surgery is highly likely to leave that area in my foot in more pain and less stable. Catch 22.
So his suggestion is to keep doing the PT and desensitiztion I was doing before until I reach a point where I'm not improving anymore. Then do the surgery. Knowing that I WILL have pain and being prepared to manage it. And then after that, with PT, I should be able to have better functioning than I did before.
He says he needs to go in and scrape off the "bad bone" and then put in a pin.
AND it validates that the pain I continued to feel there that I was told is healed and is just my faulty nerves isn't. It is real pain from a never healed injury.  |
The protocol in The Netherlands has always been, if there needs to be surgery because of a broken bone, that NEEDS to happen foremost and primarily. The CRPS takes a back seat to that. Healing the initial injury is key in helping the CRPS! If you leave something unhealed, it aggravates CRPS is their theory.
And I agree with that.
They do need to make sure to pre-treat in case of flares. But that is all up to your doctor.
Anyway, I hope you get time to heal, be well!
And get better!!!