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I can't figure out where in the world this foot pain is coming from. It hurts to stand on them (but they're not swollen), I get stabbing pains in them, and it even hurt to have the covers on them. What is up with this? ANYONE?
I swear I think my husband thinks I make up these crazy symptoms to get out of working. A migraine yes, horrible fatigue, yes, but how do you explain this? And what can I do to get relief?
TIA, Jill
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SForsgren
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Bartonella Bartonella - probably one of the top options....
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I haven't personally expereinced this but I think you can become supersensitive to touch.
I have sharp stabbing pains in my feet alot especially the joints and bones.
I can only wear sneakers when I go out. Other shoes just hurt to much.
Sometimes I have weird symptoms too and I think gee am I just imaginaing this...
But I come on here and find I am not the only one.
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Me too! That is one of my worst spots. My heels, especially. Sometimes I have to hang my feet off the bed.
Only problem is sometimes one of my dogs will lick them in the middle of the night! Really hot baths help sometimes.
Other times it takes narcotics so that I can walk. Big problem since I walk dogs as a part-time job. Cindy
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My first big thought on this is the same as SForsgren - BARTONELLA! I just attended the Hope to Heal Lyme conference and this was mentioned as one of the big symptoms of Bartonella. I have this problem on and off and I know I had Bartonella and suspect I still have it.
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I have the foot problem too and it has gotten so much worse over the course of this treatment period, which just makes me wonder. Don't know what that means.
It's sharp shooting pains through the centers of my feet, unexpectedly when I stop on them, mostly the left one. Today it was really bad as if stepping on bunches of rose thorns. OUCH!!
Isn't it just arthritis?
I also get this everywhere...sharp shooting pains...in the hands, hips, bones, neck, through the head...GGGRRRR. So if the sharp shooting pains are everywhere in addition to the feet....does that still suggest bartonella??
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I know what you are talking about. I was on the Marshal Protocol for awhile and my foot pain was 90% pain free. After I was diagnosed with Lyme my LLMD suggested I get off the MP for awhile and the foot pain was back within a month. It is like a burning inflamation.
The next ABX treatmemt that I am suppose to take is for Bartonella. So I hope Scott is right on target.
One thing my doc said was to wrap feet in a electric blanket and turn it to 10.
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Thanks everyone for your input. I have not been tested for Bart, but will bring this up with my LLMD next week. It is just the strangest feeling. Almost like walking on bubble wrap over sharp rocks.
Very random indeed.....
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your not alone with foot oddness.
pre treatment, i had this thing with my left foot. while in the shower if the water hit the top of my foot, it felt like someone was breaking all the bones in the foot.
I mentioned this to one of the ER ducks i saw before i knew that if you didnt fit into a pattern they could care less about you. he looked at me like i was nutzo.
I hope this passes for you. I would talk it over with your LLMD like you said, they should be able to provide the correct treatment.
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A LLMD at the Hope to Heal Lyme conference told me that the tests for Bartonella, like Lyme, aren't accurate and you need to go by symptoms, if you get a negative. Foot pain would definitely be a symptom of Bartonella.
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Spirochetes eat mylene and thats the covering on nerves and the facia that connects the tendon muscle to the bones next youll get a spur when it tears away thats the bodies way of trying to reach the facia.
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This is just another one of the symptoms tbd's can imitate...Raynauds syndrome...
Peripheral neurapathy is generally the explanation given.
I used icewater baths myself not heat...
Then I used a tems machine on the feet to confuse and numb out the nerves...
You're not nutso....zman
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I was being treated for my 3rd coinfection when I started having really bad foot pain, outer thigh pain and headaches. I'm now in my 2nd month of treatment for Bartonella. Most of my symptoms are gone.
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This is all too weird. I did not even think to associate my foot and hand pain to lyme. I was more focused on the normal body aches, headaches, and tiredness. So there is more going on in here then I thought. Hmmmm. I am trying to get a LLMD as we speak...no as we type.
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So, what is it? Erlichia or Bartonella?
I too have had foot pain, especially my left foot, which is my game leg from Polio and breaking it so many times.
BUT I also got bit on top of the left foot 6.5 years ago, and then about three years ago, I got a little hump on top of it, but my duck said that it is probably arthritus.
Then about two years ago, or less, I was on a ladder quite a bit working on the new house, and my right foot, achilles and down to the heel, got painful. So now I have trouble walking on BOTH feet. Lots of pain every step and very bad after standing on concrete for any length of time. Also, MOST shoes really hurt the top of left foot.
I have been treating for Lyme and Babesia, but pain has not changed on the feet. Was hoping it would.
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Jim - My erlichia came with incredible muscular pain. My feet didn't start really hurting (read - hurt to walk) until after I was being treated for the erlichia and the muscle pain starting resolving.
Eye issues and outer thigh pain also became issues that were not in the past. Up until that time I only tested neg for Bart.
I suppose everyone is different . . . but for me foot = bart
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At the Hope to Heal Lyme conference they said foot pain is from Bart.
But you did get bit on your foot....so maybe that has something to do with it, too?
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Hi all, I also cannot walk on my feet when they are bare and must wear athletic shoes if I am going to walk any distance at all.
Do any of you know of any alternative tx for Bart?
I am one of those unlucky ones who is allergic to all ABX after so many yrs. of misdiagnosis and a very Th2 dominant immune system.
Three yrs. of Samento has not modulated my immunity enough to change this, despite strong herxing from it.
I thought Samento was supposed to kill everything but Babs, but my foot pain spread from my right heel, and now affects the bottoms of both feet. It feels like I have no flesh there, as if my bones were contacting the floor each time I step.
Thanks for any ideas. Klutzo
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Orthopedic arch supports. (Yes, they do make a difference.) Don't walk barefoot on hard surfaces...wear the inserts as much as possible. Seriously, they balance the WHOLE body!
Massage the feet.
Walk.
Stretch.
To name a few...
Bug
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Ankle supports, the kinds like ace bandages that go around your foot and ankle, help reduce my foot pain. I think part is the constriction it causes, and part is that it changes the position I hold my foot in.
I know my foot pain can sometimes be referred pain from my hips and buttock muscles. Discovered this through yoga and physical therapy.
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