Re: yet another foot/toe problem-- Terry

[Guest guest]

Hi Terry,

I read your post on your foot problem and knew exactly what you were

talking about. I have numbness in the toes, not in the feet but I have

a very similar problem with pain. Mine starts in the toe next to the

big toe on both feet and runs the length of the top of the foot and

sometimes up the outside of the leg. I had my chiro work on it and he

says it is a nerve. He has given me a series of exercises to do but

they are so painful I give up very easily. I wondered then and still do

if it has something to do with GD. Like you I cannot bear to have a

shoe touch the top of the toes and I am now reduced to about three

pairs of shoes I can wear without extreme pain and this from someone

with an extensive shoe collection (middle name should have been Imelda)

that now sits forlornly in the closet.This all started about a year ago

and is getting progressively worse. My numbers show me to be slightly

hyper although I have no hyper symptoms. The need to sleep about ten

hours a day is the only external sign I have now and have had for the

past six months but having read over the past couple of days about

others with foot problems I think I can now add this.

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

So nice to know I'm not alone. Yours sounds more severe than mine, and

mine's been bad enough. Right after I wrote that post some little nudge in

my (dull) brain finally pushed me into getting my husband-the-acupuncturist

to treat it. It's far from gone, but much improved. The swelling along the

line of pain is decreased and the pain's been more occasional than steady

for the last 2 days. It no longer wakes me up at night when I brush the

sheet with the foot. I can't imagine having it on both feet, or running up

my leg! I've heard descriptions from other people of Shingles pain, and I

think it's similar although probably unrelated.

Anyway, if you are anywhere near a good acupuncturist, maybe you should try

that.

Terry

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> Reply-To: graves_support

> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:44:57 -0000

> To: graves_support

> Subject: Re: yet another foot/toe problem-- Terry

>

> Hi Terry,

>

> I read your post on your foot problem and knew exactly what you were

> talking about. I have numbness in the toes, not in the feet but I have

> a very similar problem with pain. Mine starts in the toe next to the

> big toe on both feet and runs the length of the top of the foot and

> sometimes up the outside of the leg. I had my chiro work on it and he

> says it is a nerve. He has given me a series of exercises to do but

> they are so painful I give up very easily. I wondered then and still do

> if it has something to do with GD. Like you I cannot bear to have a

> shoe touch the top of the toes and I am now reduced to about three

> pairs of shoes I can wear without extreme pain and this from someone

> with an extensive shoe collection (middle name should have been Imelda)

> that now sits forlornly in the closet.This all started about a year ago

> and is getting progressively worse. My numbers show me to be slightly

> hyper although I have no hyper symptoms. The need to sleep about ten

> hours a day is the only external sign I have now and have had for the

> past six months but having read over the past couple of days about

> others with foot problems I think I can now add this.

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