Is Bunion Surgery for Me?

When you don’t have any type of pain on your bunion, you don’t need surgery. Though in some cases it has been seen that over time the bunions get bigger, doctors don’t recommend that you should always go for surgery thinking that it will stop your bunions. Wearing proper shoes and taking other preventative care bunions progression can be stopped and there will be no pains and no other problems from bunions again.

You shouldn’t go through a bunion surgery for any cosmetic requirement. After the surgery is over, you might get ongoing pain in the toe that is affected even if you haven’t had any bunion pain before the surgery.

Following are the symptoms that a candidate for bunion surgery should have:

• Foot pain that limits a person from doing his/her daily tasks, for example, walking and unable to wear reasonable shoes if they walk more than a few blocks, they get a significant pain even if they are wearing athletic shoes.
• Big toe has chronic inflammation and swelling, and it doesn’t get better with medications or rest.
• If you have a deformity of the toe – like the big toe is drifted towards the smaller toe making a probability of each toe to cross each other.
• The stiffness of the toe is limiting your ability to straighten or bend the big toe.
• When you change footwear, your pain doesn’t lessen down.
• NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are unable to relief your main, for example, naproxen or ibuprofen. The effectiveness of NSAIDs varies from person to person in controlling the toe

Once the surgery is done, you will feel much better, as most of the patients get relief from the pain and can carry out their everyday tasks.

You can determine the costs of bunion surgeries in different countries