Well the podiatrist poked and probed and finally decided she didn't think there was a hair there. I guess we will find out in a week or two. I'm bandaged up and it's supposed to heal before I can quit wearing the pad on the thing. I told her about the knot, just so happens the knot is on the bottom of my foot right over the scar on the top of my foot from the morton's neuroma surgery.

I had it years ago. Really stupid doctor. They couldn't get the deadener to work on my foot so he gave me a pain pill finally. Then they proceeded to spend 30 min. with me sobbing from the pain while he sliced my foot, probed a nerve looking for the neuroma. I sweated, broke a tooth, told him my foot wasn't numb and he sent a guy to the head of the operating table to "hold my hand". Worse experience I've ever had. That doctor is no longer operating in our hospital because of that experience. He made a 2 inch incision in my foot and poked around the nerve with no anesthesia working. And then when I wanted to see what it looked like, he told me he couldn't find it. Surgery was for nothing. Today the podiatrist said that it was odd that the knot on the bottom of my foot is right under that scar. She said it was possible that the nerve he cut on regrew new branches and they curled back in on each other and formed kind of a little bud. She said these are morton neuroma buds. Never heard of it.

She said they treat them with a treatment where they inject alcohol into the nerve root and it kills the little buds. She told me it should work after the second shot. She said some people sometimes have to have more than one injection but she's never done over 4 without getting the result she wanted. Anyone ever heard of this? I want to say she said scleropathy. Not sure tho. I told her I'd wait until my foot got well and see if the knot goes away. Or if the hair is obvious again. I have some cracking in the bottoms of my feet and it's possible my husband mistook one of the cracks for a hair. And I wanted to know if any of you have ever had this done.

Kmeb, are you putting your clipped off pieces of jewelry wire ..even the tiny ones..directly into a trashcan the minute you clip them? I keep one beside me just for that. I got a piece of wire in the ball of my foot. Another doctor's appt. Be careful with that stuff. Needle in there that long could have caused blood poisoning. You were lucky....that time...take care.

Thanks for all the good wishes.
Billye