Amina

I have know some gals who have had toes removed or shortened for this reason. My toes are bent and not really overlapped but look like they have been run over by a car or beaten with a sledgehammer. My small toe actually bends right under my foot and this causes me more pain recently.

Hi Dancer Girl,

thank you for your post. You are the first one, who has personal experience with girls or women, who had done such a surgery. (I googled the net, but never got in contact to somebody "real" who had this done.) So I have many questions! What exactly had they done? How works the "shortening"?

Was the surgery successful (in pain relief e.g.)? Are there any unexpected long term effects? And how is the esthetic result? How were the reactions of other people to that?

Sorry, so many questions!

Love

Amina

hi nina, thx for your answer. I try to give them a rest. But you know it is not that easy if the 3rd toes are really allways on top and somehow "in the way" whatever you wear. That also one reason, why I am wearing nylons most of the time. So my somehow needless 3rds are not getting cought when I slip into my pointies. best amina

good idea: i am not too familiar with the non-metric meassures i was 1,77 m tall last time i could get my feet flat on the ground, lol i startet with a size 38 at age 11. actually i wear a size 36 (sometimes 35,5 if they are superpointy)

hi girls, i decided to post my message here in "girls only", because i have realized browsing through older posts in different departements, that some men can be very offending to us. also they definately have different experiences compared to us wearing nice shoes on a daily basis, so that i think i dont need these precocious pointy-headed coments. as i wrote in another post, i only rrally like pointed toe shoes and started weareng these at age 11 and trew away my last flat shoes with 15/16. from todays pont of view it was not a too good idea to start that early, because my feet were still growing and perfectly adopted the shape of my pointy high heels. so since ages i have permanently overlapping 3rd toes which caused already trouble from time to time. but with wearing and breaking in some new (and a bit too small and narrow but soooo beautiful) pumps they became blue and numb. i also was a bit to vain to give them a proper time of to relax, i think, so it really is not getting better. my doctor demanded a surgery to straight the toes, but that would mean, i should never wear pointy heels again! it is not suitable for me, i love my shoes! idont want to loose them! the doctor said, that he could also remove the 3rd toes, something which is usually not done anymore (it was done broadly in the 1950ies and 1960ies), if i want that. that would allow me to go on wearing my pointys. so i am really mixed up at the moment and dont know what to do. i am hoping that my toes are getting better again of course, but on the other hand i am to vain to treet them better and wear less pointy heels these days. has anybody else these problems? what are you doing about it? (or have you done in the past) has anybody had surgery to straighten toes or so? thank you all for reading amina

yep, i am stuck too. i started wearing heels with 11 years and threw away my last flat shoes at age 15/16. i like the look of my cute feet in superpointy stilettos and had nothing to complain about beeing stuck. but my fiancee complains about it. he wants me to be able to follow him on his golf course in his county club. his friends thought, that i am a little strange, when i showed up with 5" stilettos. so please, who has the pill, that makes it possible to easyly switch between ugly and beautiful shoes again? its amina, yep.

Hmmm, I've never experienced any pain in my calves.

But yeah, your feet arches normally after consistenly wearing high heels. I love it. It's cute and just plain sexy. I love it how the toes arch just slightly too, but not too inwards. Then it gets pretty gross.

be careful. the point of no return is easyly reached. and than you will end up "gross" and stucked.

good question. if the days get shorter i wear them at night. ok. amanda snaked it all. i start in the morning (exept if i go from my bed the few meters to the pool, then i am on tiptoes) and wear them as long as necessary. sometimes i wear new ones during the night to break them in. sometimes, if i am very tired and my shoes are very tight or otherwise difficult to remove, i sleept with them on my feet. and, yes, i do know that it is not a good idea. sometimes, if i am not alone at night i also prefer to have my toes covered and wear them in bed too. good?

why do i always have boris karloff in my mind?

hi girls, as i was lead here to introduce myself, i will try to do so. i live in beirut and zurich, but mostly travelling around. i am 26 yo and got myfirst pair of heels with 11, manolos, very pointed, 8,5 cm hight with my intiations ceremony, because i bagged for it i am 177 cm tall and wear a european 36 now. i only like pointy toed shoes and hate flatties. that is me, amina.