Which symptom bothers you the most?

The soles of my feet. 👟

As though they are atrophied.

I can walk heal to toe now and I walk as much as I can. I wear good shoes. It started off with a feeling of having a rolled up sock in my shoe at the ball of my foot. Now, the feeling is of a deep tightness/numbness involving the full length of my soles. Sometimes when I walk, my toes flip upward. At times my second and third toes are giving me the peace sign.

The pain and tingling is now resolved which is a blessing.

I've been dealing with the bunched up sock feeling in the last 3 toes of my left foot for a couple of years now. I asked my Intern about it and he only said "periphreal neuropathy. ( I know I spelled that wrong).

I did try to google it and came up with something about scar tissue around nerve endings or something.
My feet have gotten like ice in the Wintertime, well not just my feet, all the way up both of my legs. I tried wearing socks at night but I will wake up and have to rip the left one off, as those toes will be burning up with pain. A few times I had to make an ice pack to wedge next to them so I could go back to sleep.

I get the toe spasms too mostly in that foot. It's more than just cramping. But again that's not been a problem since warmer weather.

I also was unable to wear shoes for very long or the pain in that foot (toes and ball of foot) would start. I've not had any pain since sandal weather, and I've purchased a pair of athletic shoes that are pretty wide in the front, hopefully that'll help me. I am wearing fuzzy socks right now, because it's chilly here, but with my sandals...STYLISH, LOL!

Does your foot itch sometimes? Does it feel like it might be peeling, or very dry?

The worst symptom? Nerve pain. The shooting, fleeting, kind that makes you ask yourself just what in the heck happened.

trader758 said...
The worst symptom? Nerve pain. The shooting, fleeting, kind that makes you ask yourself just what in the heck happened.

Where do you feel it the most Trader758?

Vertigo ..dizzyness is like i have been drunk for a year and a half ...the muscle wasting and joint pain is a 2nd 3rd place ...i hate complaining but thanks ..

The nerve pain and pressure feeling - upper back - left side, left arm, hand

and the shivering

and the vibrations


I know it's three...but can't choose...

Vertigo, headaches and spine pain (osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease and scoliosis ). Uggh it's hard to stop even at 3.

My brain not working right.

Second to that, it's a toss-up between the burning aches and eye inflammation, irritation, watering, etc.

Third, the crawling in my head.

I should stop, otherwise I'm going to list them all off. lol

dizziness ang i can not stand for even 1 minut.currently lung tightness

my worst symptom is bilateral thigh burning! OMG, it feels like it is on fire.
Like Julymoring, my toes will get really hot and burn red! Awful
Get the freezing feet too.
Igenix indet, and babesia positive.
How can I post to other directly?

Another one in the dizzy/drunk column. I would give anything to trade dizzyness for pain somewhere else. To never have a clear mind...It's awful.

Hi Huddie,

1.Symptoms. They didn't get worse, just morphed. I feel as though my foot symptoms have reached a tipping point and are reversing verrrrry verrrrry slowly but surely. The pain and tingling is finally gone after many months. One new symptom this morning: it feels as though I have ingrown toenails on every toe. They are sore to the touch and Uncomfortable in my shoes.

2. Activity. Same as you Huddie. I can only do a couple of major things a day. (i.e. Grocery shopping, visiting someone, going to the hardware store, doing a bit of outside work..... ) My days need to be planned. I rest before and after the outings/activities. I can't do an outing two days in a row. My main forms of exercise are housekeeping, laundry, cooking washing the dishes and swimming. My movements are slow and purposely exaggerated as I consciously attempt to pretend that I am a woman of leisure exercising my day away. Have you ever tried putting your dishes away ballet style? Hahahahaha! I can hardly bend down to pick something up but I'm getting closer to the floor all the time. I hardly ever use the tongs anymore. ( I used to carry the tongs in my purse hahahahaha) if you think you've had funny looks at times, try picking up your glove off the floor with tongs in a shopping mall or grocery store. One day I pulled a Mr Bean and shopped for my fruit and veggies with the tongs. I had a lot of people laughing.

Be easy on yourself Huddie. When your body is ready you'll be able to do more. It is busy healing and needs the energy.

3. Thank you for the essential oils tip. So appreciate the information. Will let you know how that worked for me.

Hope you have a good day my friend,

Buzz aka Edgar the Bug. (Edgar is in hiding today. I'm having a good day so far.)

Huddie said...
Hi everyone,

Sorry you have all these symptoms. Question: Did your symptoms get worse (and more of them) over time? Or has it always been this way? I'm fairly new but a bit daunting to know what I'm in for.

My worst symptom is not being able to do more than a few things a day. I don't feel tired like I need to nap just like I can't do much. Hard to explain. Exercise out of the question. Felt really great yesterday, went to lunch and went to two stores for errands and felt exhausted. So weird.

Also anxiety. Hate that feeling.

Buzz, if you put essential oils in a base of coconut oil it may help your feet. I do that every night and it is definitely doing something. It is supposed to bring infection down. The lyme oils are Clove, Thieves, Cinnamon bark, Frankincense, Oregano. I use Young Living essential oil and I buy them on Ebay, oops, I mean Fleabay :) Feel better my friend.

Huddie, mine morphed also. I started with chest pains, severe intermittent vibrations, intermittent minor air hunger (compared to now), almost constant panic attacks for seemingly no reason whatsoever.

The chest pains aren't as bad or frequent now, the vibrations are almost always with me, to varying degrees and I just sometimes wake up into a panic attack. Things were added in every time I had a major life stressing event, and after my two surgeries. I've commented before about my upper arm reconstruction, forgetting that about 11 years before that I had laproscopic (sp) gall bladder removal. It didn't sink in until recently that my tick infections played into my body breakdown after that surgery that caused me to have to give up my pet store business. I was awarded my disability later that Fall.