Am I crazy?!
Just looking for some validation and some success stories. I’ve had sesamoid issues in my right foot since December. I didn’t go to a podiatrist about it until February. Doctor gave me dancers pads to wear for a month and said to maintain normal activity, told me she suspected sesamoiditis, but did not tell me much more about the injury or the long term healing process, just said the dancers pads would probably heal it. Pain was worse after another month so she ordered an MRI and yes it was sesamoiditis, she gave me a boot and said to wear it for 4 weeks and ordered custom inserts for me in the mean time. During this time I’ve started doing my own research and have come to understand a lot more about the condition and different people’s healing journeys. Because of this Reddit I found something that did actually help me, which was ordering an insert on Amazon, cutting out the sesamoid area, and wearing that inside the walking boot; that has helped some but surprise surprise I’m at the end of the four weeks and my foot is still in pain, and now the sesamoid area in the other foot has started hurting. I just had a follow up with my doctor today and she said to stop wearing the boot and wear my regular shoes with the inserts now. Told me nothing about what type of shoes to wear and said nothing on physical therapy. In my research on this Reddit and other places online I’ve really only heard about people actually healing by doing physical therapy. I told her this and she looked at me like I was crazy and said she could not see how physical therapy would help but would write a prescription for it if I really wanted to try it. Am I crazy?! Should I be going to another doctor? I feel like I am on my own here trying to do as much research as I can to try to heal, at times it can feel very hopeless but lately I have been feeling more positive knowing there are measures I can take to walk normally again, but am now just feeling confused by my doctor telling me physical therapy won’t do anything.