Foot Pain--Please HELP!

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Hi, I've been 'lurking' here for awhile, but have never posted.

Long story short: RA type joint pain started about three years ago. I went to a

Naturopath, who was able to help the joint pain and swelling with diet, but then

other problems and symptoms started piling up. The bloodwork did not support an

RA diagnosis, so we pursued the problem with diet and homeopathic/naturopathic

remedies. But the increased number and intensity of symptoms added up to Lyme,

Babesia, Barts +/or others. Delays in testing were due to my big issue of lack

of money (I am nearly unable to work at all - I am a dog groomer), and refusal

of insurance co to pay for anything beyond (as in useless) test.

I've now suffered anything and everything from liver enzyme issues that refuse

to clear up, bleeding retina, continuing (though decreased with diet) joint

pain, eye pain, eye floaters, recurring fevers, air hunger and dry cough, nearly

constant swollen glands, sinus-like headaches, stomach/digestion problems and

pain, distended 'gut', sharp-quick-stinging pains all over random parts of body,

random itchiness, facial tics, jaw and ear pain, chronic sore throat, tooth

pain, dry skin, hair loss, calf and foot pain.

I finally got enough money together (along with help from the LymeTap program)

to get testing done, and blood was drawn and sent in for testing at SpiroStat

this past week.

Now, the reason I am finally posting - the FOOT PAIN!! OMG, the pain in the

soles of my feet, which I thought was plantar faciitis this whole past year, has

gotten so bad in the last few months, I am nearly reduced to tears several times

a day, every day.

Believe me, this means BAD pain, as I have learned to live with a consistently

high level of constant pain, all day, every day.

I cannot take much of any kind of pain killer, as my liver function has been

compromised for the last few years. A condition probably associated with

whichever co-infection I have, but also probably exacerbated by the huge amounts

of Tylenol Arthritis I was taking for the year before I found my dr for the

joint pain and swelling. I was just trying to make it so I could work each day,

but it played hell on my poor liver.

So, has anyone got any good treatments for the foot pain until I get my test

results back and my dr can start whichever treatments I need? Please! I think

I'm going to lose my mind sometimes, it is so bad.

My feet feel like they will explode when I step down on them, and the sharp

shooting pains that go right up the calf muscles, can just about take me down.

It is horrible, and I'm at my wits end.

Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.......

Toni in Oregon