How do I fix bunions?

It’s not from shoes. When I was a baby I loved walking around on my toes and my mom thought it was just normal because I loved ballerinas and stuff.. but as I got older I ALWAYS walked on them and It was hard for me to not. Im 13 now and I walk normally but I have bunions on both feet. They arn’t HUGE .. like they dont stick out really far but it is not even close to being straight. I HATE them because when one person notices them.. everyone else notices them and It starts people making fun of me and I try to hide them but it never stops and Im sick and tired of kids and their bullying. I mean it’s the way I am and I cant fix them, no matter how bad I want to. I tried the splints and they didn’t work. Im extremely scared of surgery because I saw a video of a bunion surgery with a huge gash going down the foot and it scared the crap out of me and now I don’t know what to do about my hideous feet that embarrass me constantly every day.

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Answer #1

Surgery. And you should not be embarrassed, many people have them.

Answer #2

One of my best friends have them, and she has had surgery a couple times..

Answer #3

If you can take the pressure off the joint that caused the bunion they can eventually go away though expect it to take years. When I was a serious trombone player I actually had a big ugly bunion on a knuckle of the middle finger of my left hand from holding my trombone many hours/day. I had no idea you could get a bunion on your hand and panicked when I thought it might be cancer but my doc immediately recognized it as a bunion. When I quit playing so much it did start going down and now there is no evidence of it.

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