Thanks Melody - it's always so wonderful to hear good positive stories. Yours sounds like a hum dinger. I am very very glad that Alan has no pain using the cottong balls.

Funny about the cotton balls, though, I had seen this item called "Yoga toes" and was thinking it would do a similar thing. The good news is that you can put the yoga toes in the freezer and that might give added pain relief (if you needed it). Cold presses seem to help me the most but I will give the cotton balls a try. I don't have too much pain between the toes as much as pain in the whole top part of the foot....hard to describe

Here's a link to the "yoga toes". If you thought about getting a patent on the "cotton balls" idea, they might beat you to it, LOL!

http://www.yogapro.com/ts/toestretcher.html