Help! Can a corn really be so painful?

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Or is it something else? It's on the outside if my foot and it throbs all the time. Even when lying down.
I can't walk and even brushing it lightly with my fingers is agony so no question of using a pumice stone!!
A nurse told me she thought it was a corn.
Anyone else had this??

I am basically housebound because of a corn??? I can't call in sick tomorrow with that for an excuse!!!!

I have corns, and while they can be painful when walking they’ve never been painful enough to stop me wanting to go for a walk, or been sore to touch. You can usually see/feel the head of a corn, it’s a white dot. Sounds like it could be something else to me!

It is like a stone is burying it self into your foot it can be that painful . Get a chiropody appointment

Get a chiropody appointment because it sounds like there is something else going on.

Yes, they can be ridiculously painful.
Depending on exactly where it is, I have found the little foam donut shaped plasters really useful. They take the pressure off.
If there is a visible centre to the corn,, the medicated plasters are good. There's a little plaster spot you put on the eye of the corn, then a donut over the top.
Change as required then one day you'll find you can flick the centre out with a fingernail and BLESSED RELIEF!

I also have another corn so I thought I was familiar with the level of discomfort.
Because a health professional sent me home saying I have a corn I just took their word for it.

It's the fact that it throbs all the time....
Will try a chiropodist tomorrow maybe

Ah just read your post bruce. Ok I will hobble to the pharmacy! How long do you think it will take?

My mother had a corn on the ball of her foot that made it hard to walk. There was no visible centre just generalised hard skin.
The chiropodist filed the hard skin off then the corn appeared, she cut it out, covered it up and my mum fairly danced out of the room!
Get thee to a footerer!

I've never had a corn that throbs.
You'd be better seeing a chiropodist rather than self treat. But the plain donut is worth a go until you can get an appointment

I only had one once and those corn plasters helped giving comfort in shoes, and it sort of peeled off after about a week. Also it's possible you have a chilblain. There's a cream I think for that. I used to get them in winter, but they soon went.

The medicated corn plasters are amazing. The little disk kills the corn so the pain should stop fairly soon but keep on with he treatment until the corn is gone.

The medicated plasters can cause damage to normal skin. A corn is just a very focused area of thickened skin, there isn’t anything to ‘kill’. The medication just destroys skin cells, so if the plaster is too big or placed incorrectly so it overlaps onto normal skin it will damage that too and possibly cause a wound.

I wrecked my toe with those medicated corn plasters. It killed the healthy skin, which peeled off in chunks, and did nothing for the corn. The chiropodist said that he would like to see them banned from sale as he has seen so many badly damaged feet as a result of them.

I get a recurring corn on my toe and it is really really painful, it's hard to believe that something so tiny can cause such intense pain.

If it’s throbbing (red/swollen?) there might be an infection that also needs treating.

I have those gel inserts i put in my shoes if my foot hurts to much and im waiting for my appointment I wouldn't use a cornplaster it draws the good skin away too.

I found all corn plasters, doughnuts included a total waste of time.

Chiropodist and moisturiser is what you need. My chiropodist also said corn plasters should be banned

Are you sure it’s not a varucca. When I was in my teens I had two what my mother insisted were just hard pieces of skin. They were incredibly painful. I remember they burnt and when I stood in the school hall at assembly it was difficult to move my foot as it felt rooted to the floor. Eventually, I got taken to the doctor and given a correct diagnosis. This was the fifties so was sent to the hospital which I had to attend for several weeks while the cut it out bit by bit and bandaged it up in between visits. I always remember being shown the deep holes after they had been removed. My mother was mortified at her “just bits of dry skin” diagnosis. It’s something I have never forgotten.

Go to a chiropodist, they will sort it out straight away.

They can be excruciating, go to the chiropodist.

My DD has a severe verruca. At first there was some confusion as to what is was. The podiatrist said if you squeeze the area and it hurts its a verruca, if you push the area with your finger putting pressure on it and it hurts its a corn. Go to see a podiatrist, verrucas if it is one can be an absolute pain and are hard to get rid of. Good luck.

Be very careful with those corn plasters with a chemical in. I got a really nasty infection as it attacked the healthy skin and had to have antibiotics. My gp also said they shouldn't be on sake and should only be positioned by a specialist

Could it be gout?

I came back on to make a correction to my first post. It wasn't a corn plaster of the type pp's have mentioned, it was a foamy thing with a hole in to cushion the corn, so thanks, your comments alerted me to that I did not explain properly. Still could be a chillblain!

I would also say gout actually, it tend to start in the extremities like toes. Very painful especially to touch! Keep well hydrated if it is.

Photo op?