Ankle pain: future outlook?
Hi there, I'm currently 29 years and I was born with a unilateral club foot. I've had two corrective surgers at roughly 6 months and 1 year (from what my mother has told me) and I've had a surgery at 11 years old on my other foot to stop further growth.
Since early last year, I've been dealing with on and off again flare ups on my ankle which feels like the pain goes bone deep. After reading a bit in this sub, it seems this is unfortunately not a unique experience. I've seen people mention surgeries, mostly about fusion, and cortisol shots. I've had this issue before when I was 17, but it turned out I just had bad shoes. I switched it up back then and didn't deal with any of this until last year, and it seems this year has only gotten worse.
I am not an active person, I work an office job and deliberately choose not to be on my feet too much because prolonged standing makes the sole of my foot hurt like hell. The pain seems to come at random, sometimes it's after I've been very active, sometimes I haven't at all, sometimes it lingers for a few days to a week, sometimes it doesn't show for months. I have an appointment next week to be referred back to a specialist in the hopes of maybe some sort of solution, but my hopes are currently not very high.
Back at 17 I was already told that this was going to be a life long problem, but the realization hadn't really struck me until just now, so I'm basically just looking for people who are going through the same or who have.