burning pain in toe

I get a burning pain in my big toe joint at the ball of the foot.  All my other joints that hurt aren't a burning type of pain so I'm wondering if it's arthritis or something else.  Any ideas?

Hi, Miss erin

I have burning pain in feet, from ankles to toes. Sometimes can't touch, hurts too bad.

Possible cause= neuropathy of feet r/t diabetes? Was dx with that last month.

Flopsie

erin (I know I can hear you now..here she goes again)   I just want you to think about yourself and feel better. Slow down, that job or another will be there when you are up to the challenge of working again. I know you were so excited to get the position that you have, but who knows if it is not in the cards for you to handle it right now, the next one may be twice as good. The main thing right now, is you, and getting your body in a holding pattern, so to speak.Your cognitive abilities are impaired r/t erin.

gee maybe I will sign this one Mama   lol

ttyl,  flopsie

i stop sometimes and think of the things i use to tell my patients in the hospital: " I know you hate to be here and it is hard.... but this is where you have to be for now. And if you HAVE TO BE HERE, we can make the best of it !"  it's funny how much hearing that come from someone else helps another... i just wish i was the one saying it to others and not myself. but i am practicing what i preach.

 been having some good small improvements the past 2 days! am more agile in my arms ,elbows, and shoulders. can turn onto my sides in bed. can lift arms up overhead, and is easier to shower and hold things! throbbing is minimal as well.

 bad set-backs: i don't know where this is coming from, but since on the Sulindac 200mg been having terrible LLQ pain and then 15 BM yesterday; bad pains today but only 4 BM so far. exhausted. no sleep tuesday nite at all (very nice decorating shows on cable @ 3am!)

but last nite i had to take something to sleep and was able to get 8 hours thank god!

 called the rheumy asap yesterday about the pains and BM....so he said stop the sulindac. now what? so he's claiming sulindac will manage the inflammation along with the steroids....but now i have nothing for pain except darvocet or percocet which he claims will not work. he's driving me MAD!

 managed to keep out of all ER's and offices this week so far! good accomplishment!

Seeing BOB DYLAN tomorrow nite!  oh i can not wait! nice to have that to look forward to...and i don't care if i have to crawl there! just hope it doesn't rain on my parade, it's out in a baseball field.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ hugs}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

ERIN

Sulindac = glorified advil....overpriced, unnecessary NSAID

 hi nurse Flopsie! not bashing sulindac at all .... i hope it works well for people. but yea, it's pretty much just like indocin or mobic. i don't think it's from the prednisone and pain killers. because saturday after i took the sulindac i noticed  burning. today i only "went" 6 times,  but very painful in the LLQ abdomen. perhaps it's just a freak thing.

and in the hospital the solumedrol drip allowed me to bend my arms after a few hours so yes...i think that was successful. that and the high doses of prednisone eventually eased and stopped the throbbing.  

ooohh yea it's BOBBY TIME!!!!  big dylan fan. saw him 2 times. once in the Hamptons in a field. once in Atlantic City on the beach and tomorrow in NJ at a baseball field. Willie Nelson is opening for him. my honey needs it too. he's having a rough time with work and i think he is leaving the practice he's in now because the manager and the 2 chief neurologists are ordering eeg's every 40 minutes back to back. it's nuts! you know...how can you set up, run and download eeg's and seizure studies in less than an hour start to finish? their theory is that people will cancel and then there will be lulls in his day. NOT HAPPENING!! the poor guy just got home at 1000pm tonite from working from 8 this morning because EVERYBODY showed up and therefor he was backed up 3 hours.

i'm hoping i will be feeling well enough to make him happy and lift his spirits tomorrow and this weekend for a change. he has been just sooooo good to me and i'll spend every bit of me trying to do the same back. here's to better days!

Erin