Burning Sensation In Toes
For nearly a week now I've had a burning sensation in my toes that is becoming more and more annoying. The spasm in my toes is a new thing going on, burning started after the spasms. At frist I thought it was maybe lactic acid, but is now more of like an acid or chemical burn.
I've done some googling on the subject and have found that menopause could be a cause as well as a condition called paresthesia, which I'll post below. What I can't find is anything relating to spasms and this type of burning sensation. I've been icing them and still they burn, icing has also not helped relief the spasms that have been fairly relentless.
After reading about this paresthesia, I wondered could it be possible that the spasms are causing an irration to the nerve and that is why I have the burning sensation ????
Toe burning sensation
The skin sensation of partial numbness or "pins and needles" or a type of "burning", "tingling" or "creeping" sensation of the skin, is known as a "paresthesia". Symptoms may start as a tingling (paresthesia) and change to a numbness, or there may be a combination of decreased sensation (numbness) but with heightened sensations at certain times or with stimulation. Any type of tingling, burning, or numbness is usually a symptom related to a sensory nerve being damaged, diseased, or injured. Causes depend on the exact location of the paresthesia sensations, but typically include a physical nerve injury type condition (e.g. a nerve entrapment or some type of pressure being applied to a nerve directly or to the spinal attachment of that nerve), or a disease condition affecting the nerves (e.g. neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and others). Having these sensory symptoms in multiple locations, or the recurrence of similar symptoms in different locations is a hallmark symptom of multiple sclerosis, so your doctor will likely ask about the past history of similar symptoms to assess the likelihood of multiple sclerosis as a diagnosis (see symptoms of multiple sclerosis). Any of these tingling or numbness symptoms are more than just annoying; they can indicate a serious medical condition and require prompt medical diagnosis by a professional.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/toe_burning_sensation.htm
Robin
I've done some googling on the subject and have found that menopause could be a cause as well as a condition called paresthesia, which I'll post below. What I can't find is anything relating to spasms and this type of burning sensation. I've been icing them and still they burn, icing has also not helped relief the spasms that have been fairly relentless.
After reading about this paresthesia, I wondered could it be possible that the spasms are causing an irration to the nerve and that is why I have the burning sensation ????
Toe burning sensation
The skin sensation of partial numbness or "pins and needles" or a type of "burning", "tingling" or "creeping" sensation of the skin, is known as a "paresthesia". Symptoms may start as a tingling (paresthesia) and change to a numbness, or there may be a combination of decreased sensation (numbness) but with heightened sensations at certain times or with stimulation. Any type of tingling, burning, or numbness is usually a symptom related to a sensory nerve being damaged, diseased, or injured. Causes depend on the exact location of the paresthesia sensations, but typically include a physical nerve injury type condition (e.g. a nerve entrapment or some type of pressure being applied to a nerve directly or to the spinal attachment of that nerve), or a disease condition affecting the nerves (e.g. neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and others). Having these sensory symptoms in multiple locations, or the recurrence of similar symptoms in different locations is a hallmark symptom of multiple sclerosis, so your doctor will likely ask about the past history of similar symptoms to assess the likelihood of multiple sclerosis as a diagnosis (see symptoms of multiple sclerosis). Any of these tingling or numbness symptoms are more than just annoying; they can indicate a serious medical condition and require prompt medical diagnosis by a professional.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/toe_burning_sensation.htm
Robin
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Permalink Reply by Robin Wood on -
My foot is feeling really good, it acutally just feels like a normal foot would feel today and I was up alot yesterday trying to get my house cleaned for my fathers visit.
My question is .... does the burning sensation from a B12 defen. come with a constint burn or does it come and go ???
Robin
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Permalink Reply by Jen on -
Mine comes and goes...much better with the B12 shot. I got my first shot yesterday. The pain, burning and tingling is much worse at night and improved during the day. The injection has worked wonders so I'm sure that it has to do with the B12 deficiency. I also get this in my fingers and it is gone from my hands since getting the shot.
Hope this helps.
-Jen
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Permalink Reply by Robin Wood on
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What type of testing should be done to determine B12 and other B's defen. ???
I am assuming that testing for it should be done prior to any supplementing at home .... It's the obvious to me, just had to put it out there.
Robin
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Permalink Reply by Ellen S on -
I think I mentioned this earlier, but it's actually not necessarily B12 as that only shows deficient when you're fairly far along. Homocysteine levels and Methylmalonic acid are the things that will best tell your situation.
If Homocysteine is high it may mean low B12 (which is required to break down homocysteine) and if Methylmalonic acid is low it could mean low B12 (because it takes B12 to create it).
B12 levels of less than 4-500 are considered reason enough to supplement with injections as that is about where serious neurological damage happens. Less than 200 will give you macrocytic anemia (not iron related).
Do NOT supplement before testing! It will raise your blood level, but not tissue level or storage level of the B12 and give false B12 results.
You can look perfectly healthy and be vitamin deficient. Don't let your gorgeous good looks fool anybody. :)
Hope this is helpful.
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Permalink Reply by Ellen S on
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Oh Yeaah!!!!! I'm so thankful for you, Jen. Hopefully this will be the end of it all. You should really think about asking for testing for other deficiencies as well, eh? Since your gut is not working well, it might make sense. Might also surprise you what you find.
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Permalink Reply by Thorns on -
Robin, Just started to have pain and burning in two of my toes in my right foot with the two toes beside my baby toe affected, went to my massage therapist who worked on my hip flexers and found the muscles were tight and painful with massage that was also painful but necessary to break up the knot the pain in my toes is gone. I`ll still have to have her work on this because I still have the pain in my hip muscles but it worked for me maybe for you too. Thorns
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Permalink Reply by Robin Wood on
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Hi Thorns :)
You know I haven't had a bit of problem with the burning etc in my toes since the occurance I wrote about here, well aside from minor spasms of the toes and the fact that now my left toes are spasming in the same way. Again the spasms have remained minor, hardly even notice they are there and they are there pretty much on a daily basis now.
I can't shake the feeling that what I experienced was somehow directly related to the spasms and the intensity of the spasm, dystonia had a grip on my poor lil' toes much like the grip it has had on my left shoulder.
Interesting about the message, did your message therapist feel yours was related to your hip flexers ???
Robin
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Permalink Reply by beka on -
Hi T-
How do you tolerate the massages ?? I can't and don't let anyone come near my my neck, back, feet etc... Hurts too much !!
beka
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Permalink Reply by beka on
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Robin - Have you gone to your general physician about Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ???
Read Bionic Kris' Spinal Cord Stimulator Thread !! You might find some of the same symptoms that you mention here. I asked her personally if she had similar burning sensations etc. with RSD..?
beka
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Permalink Reply by beka on
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I think I by mistake deleted a portion of this discussion.. call it typing with two fingers.
But how are you doing with the Vit B12 shots ? Sympto,s subsiding- Robin ?
oops...
beka
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Permalink Reply by Robin Wood on
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Hi Beka ... I guess I'm doing ok with the B-12 shots, haven't felt much different at all as far as energy level but then again my energy level is always high. Just completed the 4th shot for this month, next one is due in a month, then one more monthyly after that and then my blood will be checked again. I've been receiving like 2,000 cc, does that sound right, cuz I know it's not mg., got the med head thing going on as you'll read later.
Another current happening in my life is that I am working on the STOP SMOKING thing again but this time I am doing under Doc's care. I get past the 48 - 72 hrs of becoming nicotine free just fine but then within a week or so I my storms want to come out. I did some research over a year ago on my last attempt into the effects of nicotine on the brain .... And right now I'm a bit forget full with the meds I am taking but I believe it was the seretonin levels that the nicotine messes with, any how it takes something like 4 - 6 weeks for those levels to get back to normal. That is what is causing my problem in this battle to be smoke free. I started with Chantix, ativan for my storms, flexeral for any minor spasms and xanax. All three meds were started to help me along as well with many of the side effects from the Chantix. Chantix side effects have lots of dystonia triggers. It's been 4, almost 5 weeks and I've gone off the Chantix 2 weeks ago. Every 5 days to a week I might feel like I really really have to have a smoke, the xanax nor ativan take away the urges of a storm coming on. And it could also be the fact that the ativan stoped working; past experience with ativan I have only gotten like 2 - 3 weeks relief from it. I really should sit down and re do some research on this cuz it was quite informative.
Robin
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Permalink Reply by Robin Wood on
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Well here it is nearly a year and a half since I wrote this post .... hard to believe so much time has passed. A couple of months back I finally got in with a PC, something I had gone without for nearly 9 years now. I frist had some pretty routine blood work done and one test came back that a B12 defen was a possiblity, so I then went and had my B12, Folic Acid, Methylmalonic Acid and Homocyst (e) Plasms levels checked.
Sure enough, I am B12 deficient. I'm right on the border line. I got my frist B12 injection today and will be having one a week for the next 3 weeks then once a month after that. Since I frist wrote this post, I've had very little issues with burning sensations; there has been some minor incidents but nothing like I frist wrote about in this post.
Thanks to all for all your advice and knowledge, it took me a while but I finally know for sure now ;)
Robin
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