Your Mind Can be a Pain in the Butt

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When I was in my early forties, my big toe on my right foot started aching. It hurt like hell when I walked and drove me insane at night when I was trying to get to sleep. A year later, the big toe on my left foot started acting up, too, making me completely miserable.

The pain went on for a year or so, so I decided to go to my doctor. He told me I had a bunion and referred me to a foot surgeon. Of course, the foot surgeon laughed at the diagnosis of my family doc, noting that bunions are rare as snails in the desert in men. He took x-rays of both feet and quickly diagnosed the problem: I had a major bone spur on my big toe in my right foot that needed to come out. However, there was no sign of a bone spur in my big toe on my left foot.

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