it takes years and even decades of abuse in the form of tight, ill fitting or poorly designed shoes to develop bunions. Then, after that long slow process we reach a tipping point where they interfere with our mobility. Now, we expect to reverse the effects of a decade long process in a few weeks.

Realistically, you have to be more patient with your body, and find ways to manage the problem and avoid flare ups, hopefully to get back to the other side of that tipping point. Then by no longer adding to the problem, you have hope of it slowly resolving itself, which in most cases it will.

Wide, roomy shoes, and some support to maintain toe alignment, and some time for the inflammation to ease, and you might get the problem back to where it was less of one.

Summer's coming, consider wearing sandals of the type held on between the big toe and it's neighbor as much as possible (even to work, with an explanation) until September, and your foot might have a chance to fix itself.