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Severly painful big toe – not gout

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For the last 2 months I have had a severely painful big toe. My doctor is baffled. He says it is not gout. X-rays show nothing wrong. Visually there is nothing to see. No swelling. No redness. The pain is in the fleshy ball of the big toe and sometimes the tip of the toe. The pain is there all the time. It wakes me up in the night even. Extremely painful to walk. Painful to touch. Recently the tips of the other 2 toes next to it are also sometimes painful. I’ve been living on ibuprofen to combat the pain.
I am desperate to find out what this could be. Have you ever heard of this?


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    I’ve been living with an infected toe for a while. Blood and puss come out of it and I’ve already been to the doctors three times. I don’t know if I could go threw all that pain again at the doctors. I’ve tried epsom salt, but not on a day to day basis. Is there something over the counter or something I would have to get approved by a doctor I could take to treat this or some kind of old treatment?

      Vivian Abrams DPM

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      If I am correct in assuming you have an infection due to an ingrown nail, then you need to see a podiatrist ASAP. We treat this problem on a daily basis. The procedure to fix this is done in the office and is not traumatic.If this is not the case, then I still recommend you see a podiatrist. It is impossible to recommend an over the counter medication for an infection I have not seen. This really should not be left on its own to get worse- because it most certainly will

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    Dear Dr, I’m not sure if you remember the message I originally sent (December 5) in my desperate search for pain relief. Since writing you last my doctor sent me to a hemotologist and as soon as he listened to the symptoms of the severely painful big toe, as well as other things, he immediately thought it might be a blood clot in the toe. He put me on blood thinner (aspirin) and the pain went away within days. His diagnosis turned out to be right and they subsequently also discovered I have polycythemia. With the treatments for that, as well as the blood thinner my toe pain has not returned. I just wanted to give you an update in case someone in the future has something similar. They may want to know that a blood clot is a possibility.

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