Scar tissue after bunion surgery

What ever happened with you're toe?  I'm having the same problem.

Hi Anne,

Had the same surgery you did last year. My doctor performed a manual manipulation of the big toe to break up the scar tissue. Unfortunately the results last only 2 months before it builds up again. A new doctor is recommending that I have another surgery to completely remove the scar tissue. He says that there is a 65-70% chance it works but PT must start the very next day.

I am very interested how you are progressing after three years.

I’m starting PT tomorrow. My podiatristbreleased me at 4 weeks and said in 6 months I’ll be walking normally. It’s been 4 months and I cannot walk anywhere near normally and have terrible burning at the scars and in the two affected toes (had a bunion surgery 27 years ago that failed a few years ago and it dislocated my second toe so the big toe and 2nd toe were worked on). I’m hoping PT will release the scar tissue but I’m scared. Scared of the pain and scared I made a huge mistake in doing the surgery. 

I'm new to this discussion! I had x1 toe bunionectomy done 7&1/2 weeks ago. Still limping, painful and stiff toe joint! Booked for MUA +/- scar tissue debridement in 4 weeks, has anyone had this done and if so what is the recovery time?

I see that you were having this issue four years ago but maybe you can help me out. I had bunion correction 10 weeks ago but healing was terrible. Ended up having a guide wire breaking during surgery that the doc felt wouldn't really be a bother but it was. The screws were causing reactions in my foot as well and I had 0 mobility in my big toe and a large lump under the ball of my foot. My Doc decided that he wanted to go get the wire and remove the rest of the hardware. He also decided to manipulate the toe to get mobility. I just had that surgery on Friday the 25th. They ended up removing a bunch of scar tissue and the hardware in my foot. Doc said that he had pretty good mobility in my toe while I was out. I go for my post op appt tomorrow and am hoping I get the green light for weight bearing. I am having a complication from the nerve block and hopefully that will fix itself as time goes by but I'm wondering how long after the removal of hardware and tissue did it take to walk again? Sorry for the rambling note 😃

i know this thread is old hoping to get help for my son

My son broke his tib-fib on his left leg just above the growth plate He also had severed vessels to his foot. they grafted a vessel and attached to save his foot Through all of this now its been 4 years, he cannot move his big toe. The big toe is now moving under the second toe and it looks like a bunion

Three doctors all have a different approach

One said the scar tissue has built up atound his achilles and his calf which is why he cannot move his toeI really would hate to do surgery again and feel there are treatments that can help get movement back

Anyone have experience with this, or PT he can try? Id love to know of a way to break up the scar tissue

Any, and all suggestions are appreciated

i know this thread is old hoping to get help for my son

My son broke his tib-fib on his left leg just above the growth plate He also had severed vessels to his foot. they grafted a vessel and attached to save his foot Through all of this now its been 4 years, he cannot move his big toe. The big toe is now moving under the second toe and it looks like a bunion

Three doctors all have a different approach

One said the scar tissue has built up atound his achilles and his calf which is why he cannot move his toeI really would hate to do surgery again and feel there are treatments that can help get movement back

Anyone have experience with this, or PT he can try? Id love to know of a way to break up the scar tissue

Any, and all suggestions are appreciated

i know this thread is old hoping to get help for my son

My son broke his tib-fib on his left leg just above the growth plate He also had severed vessels to his foot. they grafted a vessel and attached to save his foot Through all of this now its been 4 years, he cannot move his big toe. The big toe is now moving under the second toe and it looks like a bunion

Three doctors all have a different approach

One said the scar tissue has built up atound his achilles and his calf which is why he cannot move his toeI really would hate to do surgery again and feel there are treatments that can help get movement back

Anyone have experience with this, or PT he can try? Id love to know of a way to break up the scar tissue

Any, and all suggestions are appreciated

Had what I thought would be a simple procedure for tailor's bunion removal last August. Over a year later, the incision has developed into a hard and painful scar tissue. Now I can barely walk in any shoe due to the clueless surgeon. I'll check on the 'breaking up adhesions procedure' since pain pills don't seem to work/affect the foot.

Also heard deep tissue massage may help. I feel extremely bitter that I even had this operation since the mild pain of the former tailor bunion increased tenfold with the crippling and chronic pain of what has developed.

I am 15, and have the bunions of an 80 year old woman. On September 18th of 2020 I had my first bunion surgery on my left foot. As far as I know everything went well and the pain is almost completely gone but I have my moments where I will do something and it will hurt for a little. But why I am really typing this is because after I washed my foot this morning and I got started messing with the dead skin and everything, I noticed that a small spot on my scar was a dark black color and honestly got very freaked out. I grabbed my phone and started reading articles about it and making sure it was not something I need to worry about. None of the articles said the black was normal they said that the purple, white, and brown coloring was normal. So if you know anything about if this is normal please let me know so I can feel a little less freaked out. When I added the picture of my foot it made the image look weird but its okay haha. I put arrows next to the areas that I thought looked bad. let me know if you know anything about this or if you know how my foot is doing at the moment.

I had a tailor's bunion procedure in 2019, and now I'm loading on a painful internal scar that shouldn't be there in the first place. It's 10 times worse pain than the excised bunion, and progressed into a scar one and a half years later.

Totally unacceptable, and need revision surgery to break it up. Always ask credentials of any orthopedic surgeon, and if he/she has ever performed the procedure before. Mine obviously had not.

This happened to me when I had what supposedly was an easy tailor's bunion procedure. How wrong I was, and should have enquired how many of these operations this particular surgeon performed. Two years after, I'm limping on a lateral internal scar which gradually formed replacing healthy cells with thickened scar tissue. I'm also experiencing numbness in that area from nerve trauma.

I now need revision surgery after going to a number of consultants. One puts their faith and trust in a specialist assuming you're in safe hands. Not in my case however.