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Back on June 24 I noticed inflammation along the nail fold of my left big toe. It was predominantly inflamed on the right corner but was present along the entire nail fold (first photo). Saw a podiatrist the next day, who debrided the nail fold area on the right corner, diagnosed cellulitis, and prescribed me an oral antibiotic. Along with using mupirocin ointment, it helped knock out the acute infection, but I still have residual inflammation at the right corner since I stopped the antibiotics on July 1.

I clearly have onochomycosis that I’ll deal with but I’m wondering what’s causing the gap or separation in the cuticle area and remaining inflammation on the right side of the nail fold (second pic, taken today). Would this be considered onocholysis? What’s interesting is the redness reduces or disappears within about 10-15 seconds when I elevate my foot and returns when I put my foot back on the ground, so it’s clearly position dependent.

I’ll follow up with my podiatrist but wondering if anyone else has dealt with, what it turned out to be, and how it was treated.

Hi, everyone.

Just joined this subreddit in hopes someone can shed some light on what is going on with a specific batch of Hi8 tapes I am attempting to digitally transfer using a Sony CCD-TRV87 camcorder and a ClearClick 3.0. I have about a dozen tapes that all have the same distorted picture and audio. My first thought is maybe they were near a magnet or speaker, but I don’t recall this being the case since they were stored with other tapes that are perfectly fine. Unfortunately one of these videos is my honeymoon.

Here’s a clip of what I see when transferring using the ClearClick.

https://youtu.be/o8oEkIPi8XI?is=yigaaAsyH0EjGt4z

EDIT: What you see in the clip is exactly how it appears in the LCD viewfinder and when I play it directly to a TV. These were tapes that previously played ok and other tapes play perfectly fine.

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Six weeks ago I developed mild tingling and numbness in my left big toe after my hour-long commute home from work. I’d been sitting on a U-shaped coccyx cutout cushion for months to offload my perineum due to an overactive pelvic floor (also provoked from driving). The left toe symptoms progressed quickly and spread bilaterally into both legs because I made my initial symptoms significantly worse with one session of knees-to-chest and piriformis stretches, thinking I was managing early sciatica. Turns out flexion was exactly the wrong direction for posterior disc bulges. I just didn’t know that yet.

I paid out of pocket for an MRI three weeks after symptoms onset because my insurance is a complete joke. Glad I did. Image and report included. Although the radiologist entered the wrong history — filed it as “polyneuropathy, 5 years” instead of “acute bilateral radiculopathy, 3 weeks” — so the impression reads “no acute abnormality” despite multilevel findings from L1 through S1 (especially L4/L5 and L5/S1).

Primary symptoms: burning, tingling, and numbness in both legs from the knees down into my feet, spreading into my thighs when significantly flared. I usually get a brief morning reset where I wake up nearly symptom free, but it’s short-lived before discomfort returns.

My latest concern: persistent numbness in the back of my right heel for the past week that doesn’t respond to position changes, walking, or the morning reset. This is the first symptom that has held on through everything that usually helps and doesn’t fluctuate at all. I suspect I may have further aggravated the S1 level through compensatory movement by favoring my right leg while lowering to the ground and pushing back up. Feels like whack-a-mole: solving one problem and creating another.

I also woke up this morning with bilateral leg edema for the first time. I’ve been taking 400mg ibuprofen (previously tried Aleve 440mg for first two weeks) and 200mg gabapentin daily for several weeks. Both are at lower daily doses so I’m not entirely sure what’s driving this edema.

I’ve been in PT for a month doing bridges, prone press-ups to elbows, and standing backward hip extensions. Since I can’t identify what’s provoking continued worsening, I’ve paused my home program until I see my PT on Monday.

I’m not looking for medical advice from non-medical professionals — just genuinely curious whether anyone has been through something similar and what their experience looked like. Especially the bilateral spread, the feeling of going in the wrong direction despite doing the right things, and what eventually shifted.

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TL;DR: M53, 6 weeks of radiculopathy, one flexion session likely turned unilateral into bilateral. MRI shows multilevel disc bulges with foraminal narrowing at L4-L5 and L5-S1. New persistent heel numbness and ankle edema. Getting worse despite PT. Looking for perspective.