Acute Pain in feet and toes - sometimes with numbness

October 1, 2008

Sorry this is sooooo long!

Does anyone else suffer sharp acute pains in the feet - sometimes

which are accompanied by numbness - sometimes there's just numbness

and no pain, just a little bearable tingling. The pain only lasts

from mins to an hour or so at the very most each time. They can

occur whether i'm lying around or walking around - when I read about

peripheral neuropathy it definately sounds similar and the only thing

that gives me some amount of relief is codeine. But aside from some

heart valve damage I have, which surely couldn't cause it to this

degree, there seems no obvious cause that I could think of. I've got

errosions in my feet - but that's bone right, surely it wouldn't

affect circulation to that degree if my RA isn't that active in the

area at the time?

I also notice if I swim or am out on cold water the bottoms of my

feet will go numb, the pain is unbearable (like i'm walking on glass

to get to the hot shower) and they turn white (translucent like)until

I can get the blood flowing in them properly again.

The pain can be just in my one of toes or ball or heel of my whole

foot. It feels different to the usual pains from my RA and none of

the RA meds seem to work.

I'm at the point where my RA is under control and i'm trying to peel

away the layers of what appear to be other problems - unassociated

but which have previously been lumped into the whole RA thing cause

it's easier for Doctors to do - and you know how it is you give up

and agree. I just found out i've put up with 3 impacted wisdom teeth

for 18 months thinking it was RA in my jaw!! arrrh - now waiting 12

months to get them out! lol So i'd really love to get to the bottom

of this or at least know the best way to treat it - these pains are

agony - the take your breath away kind! Give me a broken bone any

day!!

Any ideas or hearing from someone else with this would be greatly

appreciated!!

Thanks

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