dear pharmacy forum i have some questions about my six toes disorder and I would like to clarify them if it’s possible… with your help. Okay I knew that this can happen to people and when I was little it was a problem for me, all the kids looked at me and called me a monster because of this defection I was born with. I’m a 30 years old pretty healthy woman now and I can’t complain about anything except this. My toes are something that I could never explain.. and I still wonder what was the cause of this defection. For the first time that I was interested about my 6 toe was when I was 15 years old, I was in love and of course I was thinking about eliminating it, but anyway I was too little to decide something by myself and my parents didn’t wanted me to do this. Now I’m 30 and i still want to know something more about this than I already know. I can’t explain the fact why I have it just at one toe and I would like to know what is the thing that caused it to appear. Even though I’m 30 and I’ve lived my whole life with it, I still don’t know anything about it. lots of times I simply forgot about it but now, recently, I’ve been feeling “not ok” because of this when I went to pool. In general, summer time is worst for me because everybody can see this 6th toe I have and it’s not “pleasant” when people are looking at it with those eyes.
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I have 6 toes and a lot of questions
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Loving Elizabeth
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hey I don’t know anything about the cause but I can tell you my daughter’s experience. I know very well and be sure that it can be removed. we removed the “extra” thumb of my daughter when she was only 1 year old. We wanted to do this earlier but doctors told us that it will be better to wait until she will be a little bit older. Our doctor explained us that in case of my daughter the operation will be a little bit more serious that another one and a little bit more complicated. He explained that there are different operations depending of what kind of extra thumb you have on your hand or foot. My daughter have had a really complete thumb on her right hand and I know that there are some people that can criticize me about the fact that I decided to do this without waiting for her decision but I think that this will be better for her.
our doctor explained us that actually it’s a serious intervention because they have to remove a really complete thumb and that it contains a bone and a nail on it so that’s why it’s more complicated. I know that I’ll tell her the truth when she will be a little bit older, and I don’t think that she will be angry about this, I know very well that she could be bullied about this and I don’t what her to suffer. Anyway you are 30 years old, I don’t know if there could be other complications, but actually judging logically I think that in your case eliminating this toe will be more easily, I think. Just think that when we removed my baby’s thumb my doctor told us that he was afraid not to have complications with her bones, she was little and he was afraid that when she will grow up and obviously her bones will grow up with her, the 6th bone that is impossible to eliminate completely from the inside will grow up too, but fortunately she is okay for now, she is 8 years old and she didn’t know about this thing yet. I think that you have to talk about this with your doctor and I’m quite sure that this wouldn’t be a problem for you to eliminate it. – of course just if you want to do this by yourself.
p.s: almost forgot to say that when I decided to eliminate the thumb, my doctor asked me if this is not a genetic thing, I don’t know why maybe it doesn’t matter but I recommend you to ask about this thing if you have a genetic thing, ask your parents or relatives if they have had or maybe if they know somebody that have this thing or not. I’m not sure if this would help but your doctor might want to know it. My daughter case is not genetic and I’m really happy about this thing because this way I can be sure that her kids won’t have this thing, at least chances are smaller.
Hi, the girl is right about the genetic thing. My family has had this through the time, my mother didn’t had it but I have had this, and I know that it comes from my grandpa. I have 3 kids, 2 boys and one girl. When I have had my boys I was so glad that they didn’t have it but my daughter did and I was so sorry about this. I remember very well that I was 9 when my parents decided to eliminate it and I was so happy, first of all because all the kids avoided me because of this, they were very scared and didn’t wanted to play with me and the second thing because it was very uncomfortable, especially on winter, it was impossible to walk and I always passed through an impossible pain. When I found out that my daughter have had the same thing I decided that she must have it removed. I remembered my childhood and I don’t what her to pass over the same thing, it’s very hard for a baby to pass over this, and it can create a lot of complexes and can affect the psychological activity of the kid, I know very well what you are and were going through.
Also, I agree that now that you are 30 it will be easier to remove it, I don’t know how your childhood was, but if you want to have it removed just do this and that’s all, that’s what I’ve done and I’m fine!
I have had the same thing, and I have passed over such embarrassing things due to this. First of all I have had 12 toes on my feet and the second thing is that I have 6 toes on one hand – much worse looking than any of you. My parents didn’t wanted me to remove it, they always told me that this is how I was created and that’s why I have to stay like this – they definitely don’t know what’s like to live with that. Well, my childhood was horrible (of course) and I have had some other problems due to this. I can’t complain about childhood because I don’t consider that this is the most terrifying thing that can happen to me, but when I was a young boy, when I wanted to have my first job, I couldn’t have it because I know that they didn’t accepted me because of my defections. At 26 years and I decided to remove all of them, and especially the extra thumbs on my hand. I talked with my doctor and I explained him about my situation, he was glad to help me. I was thinking that only one intervention was enough to eliminate all of them at once and I was so happy because I knew that the second day when I woke up I’ll be a normal person. Unfortunately it wasn’t like this. I woke up the second day after the intervention and I found out that they have had eliminated just my feet toes but the 6th thumb on my hand wasn’t eliminated. My doctor explained that actually there were some complications with my thumb bone; he told me that the 6th thumb bone was connected with another thumb bone and it was impossible to eliminate just one of them. He told me that if I want I can eliminate 2 of them, but I didn’t want to do this. I was thinking about this and in the end I decided that it will be better to have 6 thumbs instead of 4. So, now I have normal feet and a strange hand but it’s okay, I’m glad that I was able to eliminate at least the toes on my feet. Maybe my mother was right about the fact that this is how I was created. Anyway, it’s possible to eliminate if you want and sorry that I didn’t provide you the information about why this can happen – this is something genetic and I don’t know if you would find somebody who can explain in why exactly it happens.
oh thank you all for your related experience, now at least I know that I can eliminate it. I don’t know but I think that this will be okay to eliminate it – I would really want it. I have lived with 6 toes all my life and now I would like to try to live like a normal person who can go swimming normally. The thing about discomfort, I have had it so many times, but after some years I got used with this and this became so familiar and normal to me, now when I think that I have the opportunity to eliminate this toe I can’t imagine how it will be to fill okay in new shoes, but I’m glad that soon I’ll discover this, or at least I hope it.
Anyway don’t worry about the lack of information; I think that I’ll ask my doctor or some other specialists about it, I’m glad with the info I’ve got already. Thank you all.