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Foot pain - lump

Discussion in 'Ask your questions here' started by Ouchio, Dec 3, 2008.

  1. Ouchio

    Ouchio Guest


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    Hello,

    I had a bone re-aligned along the outside of my foot approximately 10wks ago. There has been a lump there ever since which the consultant said was a disolvable stitch and would disappear.

    Over the past couple of days I have been feeling a sharp pain around the bone & lump which is almost like a scratching pain. I can feel it when I am sat and although there is a little more pain when I am walking - I can not feel that there is a pattern. It is only tender to touch at times but constantly I can feel it irritating me.

    I have been trying to get hold of my consultant - so far with no luck. So thought I would come on here and see if anyone had any ideas???
     
  2. FootDoc

    FootDoc New Member

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    Sometimes an absorbable suture is not absorbed well or quickly and causes a local irritation which the body tends to encapsulate or wall off. This is sometimes termed a stitch or sterile abscess which sometimes requires physical removal, sometimes is expelled or "spit out," by the body, sometimes eventually absorbs and sometimes becomes organized into a permanent lesion. But this is but one scenario which might account for your complaint, and I cannot be at all certain that this describes your actual situation. I am, instead, relying entirely on your doctor's having told you that he/she believes it to be an unabsorbed stitch.

    I don't know what having a bone realigned along the outside of your foot means or why it might have been necessary, but it might be informative for you to know that patients commonly complain of a lump which is naturally occurring in what I perceive to be the area of which you are speaking, and that lump is the styloid process of the base of the 5th metatarsal. I will assume, though perhaps incorrectly, that that is not what you are talking about.

    One other issue . . . I have a difficult time getting use to folks, generally from the U.K. or Europe terming their doctors "consultants." In the States, a consultant in medicine is generally a doctor who is called upon for a further opinion, and should that doctor then begin treatment on his own, he is then no longer a consultant but an attending. I bring up this issue to substantiate why I believe that you are likely not in the U.S., and that you are probably under some sort of single-payer nationalized health insurance. One of the many problems I hear with such a medical delivery system is that folks, just as you have stated, assert that they have had difficulty getting in touch with their "consultant." I have supposed that to be the result of the "consultant" working for and being paid by the state, rather than the patient and seemingly having as much or more responsibility to his/her employer than his/her patient. In the U.S., if one has a great deal of problems reaching his doctor, and because of that a medical problem ensues or gets worse, his next call is generally to an attorney. That appears be at least a factor in perhaps causing doctors here to be more responsive to their patients. In my mind, there is NO excuse for a doctor's being difficult to reach when a patient upon which he has operated has a problem. I think you should tell your consultant just that, if and when you reach him/her.
     
  3. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    Thanks very much for the information. I will keep trying to get a hold of my consultant.

    Generally, things like this are covered in the UK by the NHS. But if you have private healthcare insurance then you can chose a consultant who specialises in a certain medical area and your costs will be covered.
    However, because it has been so long since my surgery I have already had all my post op consultations and the Consultant was happy to sign me off.
     
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