Burning at the bottom of my feet

[Jan101]

2 weeks ago I had my L1 to my S1 lumber RF done and now I have burning in the bottom of my feet. has this happened to anyone else? Thank you in advance

[Jtal19305]

Hello

Yea this burning feet / foot happened to me after my back surgery. The burning was severe and my surgeon just could not explain it. I was left to wait a d go through pain management. I

Fast forward 1 year and 4 months post surgery, the burning pain has diminished quite a bit but is still there in my left heel. Plus dysthetic pain in legs at times especially at night. No doctor can explain. Give it time! Your nerves are agitated and the lowest further way nerves are effected the most. Give it time and get a foot shiatsu massager. That will help a lot to stimulate blood to your nerves.

[288kingstreet in reply to Jtal19305]

Hello jan1212 and jtal 19305. Since you say you both have burning feet due to back procedures have you had any medications or other treatment to ease the burning, or on the contrary increase the burning?

[Jtal19305 in reply to 288kingstreet]

Hello again. Yes. I am on meds. I recommend trying lyrica 75 mg 2x per day (morning and evening) or more if needed. For pain, I take oxycondone 10 mg 3x per day Which helps make it more tolerable but does not eliminate the pain. I am also on cymbalta 30 mg 2x per day which I feel is helping. Also you should stretch , soak your feet in warm water / epsom salts, take warm bath with epsom salts, use an OTC nerve pain cream on your feet. It is going to take time for the burning to calm down. Tell me about your self-age gender weight etc? It could take many months or years like in my case. I was extremely active and healthy and this ordeal has changed my life. Do not be afraid to take the meds you need to manage the pain. No one should live in pain like this. Also rub your feet and massager which will help.

Jerry

[Jan101 in reply to Jtal19305]

Hi Jerry I will take the meds and soak my feet. I am 61 female of 9st 3lb only 5ft so I am small. I have always been very Active and worked all my life. I have so much go wrong with Me sinceMarch of this year I have had a vertoplasty and the nerves in my spine and hips Lasered Also I have colitis which at the moment is flaring really bad so seeing my doctor tomorrow and Monday. I am very lucky to have an NHS system like the one where I live. I am going to get an appointment with my GP this week and see what else they can give for the burning feet I have only had it one week I want to try and catch it early to stop this if I can orbif that is even possible. This has been the worst year of my life and I want my life back and I have a lot of determination. but sometimes this year I felt like I wanted but sometimes this year I feel like I want together to give up and that is not like me because I love life. Thank you for asking and take care

[Jan101 in reply to 288kingstreet]

Hi no but I have some Lyrica at home I can try that until I see my doctor. Also I will try putting my feet into a basin off water. Have you any ideas? I wish you well.

[Jan101 in reply to Jtal19305]

Hi thank you for your reply. I have Lyrica at home so I will try that tonight. I will also speak to the doctor. I have been through so much pain and other illnesses since last march it been one thing on top off another. Also I have lost 1 1/2 stone in 4 weeks and I am only small to start with so the weight loss is not good. 😢 I hate the feeling off burning feet only had it for one week but it's awful. I really feel for you having it so long. It really has to do with the nerves being cut that I am sure off. I wish you well and to be in as little pain as possible. Take care

[Jan101 in reply to Jtal19305]

Good morning I just want to say thank you for your advice for the first time in weeks I got to sleep for 10hrs.😀 My body so needed to get the rest and sleep is a great medicine. I am seeing the hospital again today as my colitis has been flaring for the las 5 weeks. But yesterday I phoned my specialist secretary and my specialist was over in the US and she emailed him and he emailed right back and told me to up the steroids and he would see me on Monday before his clinic started. I am very very lucky to be under some great surgeons and doctors. But for now you are the one I want to thank as I took the meds and got the sleep that I so needed. 👍 I truly hope that you are feeling as best you can. Jan1212

[Jtal19305 in reply to Jan101]

Hello Jan

Yes sleep is essential and will help you recover. The weight loss is good but make sure you get the proper nutrition especially b complex and vit c and d. I'm doing better each month. I never thought it would take this long and need to mentally be prepared for 2 years to 5 years of recovery. I put weight on as lyrica is known to do that. For you give it time and do not over stress your back with too much. Watch excessive bending lifting and twisting. Salt water soaks will help. You will get better in time! Good luck and take care!

Jerry

[Jan101 in reply to Jtal19305]

Hi Jerry

I will get all the nutrition that you suggest and start on it right away. I am so sorry to hear that it is taking you so long and been a long journey for you . I am also taking it very easy and looking after my back I can only stand for about 15 to 20 minutes at the moment before the pain starts again but I know I have a long road to go down but I am determined to do things correctly and get better. I am going to try the salt baths tonight and see how much they help fingers crossed. You take good care and thank you for all your advice. Please keep me posted on how you're doing. Jan

[288kingstreet in reply to Jan101]

The Lyrica may have had a contributing factor of your well needed sleep that we all need in order for our body's to recoup from our daily lives let alone from nerve damage. I tried Lyrica but I might as well have slept my life away and it takes up to 6 weeks to actually build up in your system according to my neurologist that slowly kept increasing the dose. It's usually used for neuropathic pain caused from diabetes, Gabapentin is in the same family as Lyrica. The problem I have with this medication is that I'm not diabetic. We often won't get an honest answer from Doctors today and I don't know why truth telling is so hard in the medical industry these days. I call it an industry rather than health care because that's just it, Physicians seem not to care - as a mistake may have happened and it will be hidden from all of us who suffer so much from nerve damage for as long as possible.

Arachnoiditis.

An incurable condition in which is caused by the very hands that do back surgery or Spinal Epidural Steroid Injections. I caution all who are considering these procedures to do your homework before, because after - it's too late. We all should be given very clear "informed consent" before any of these procedures are to go forward. More often than not, we are not. We are left with a life long chronic irreversible conditions in which the damaged nerves will never repair themselves rather the stages get worse as time goes by. I hope this is not your case, I truly do. However, please people please, do your due diligence before you even let the best of the Professional Surgeons or Physicians do a procedure near or at your spinal cord. To Error is human. To be human there is always errors or we would never learn. Unfortunately we are left in painful excruciating pain whilst the Doc's go to the next patient,and then the next doing tbe same pricedures and so on it goes.

There are alot of some very good u-tube videos that will help you decide if what you are going through could be Arachnoiditis. Also u-tubes from The Physicians point of view. Very sad that this is not FDA approved and Physicians are using this drug and many others for "off label" use.

May God bless you all today and every other day until we can get an appropriate pain resolution, which could be life long use of strong opioid medications which unfortunately due to street addicts and abusers of medications they often will not be given to the very innocent who need them desperately in order to have any quality of life. At the very least this should be given some thaught by treating Physicians and it is not, by any means. How cruel and so very sad.

[Jan101 in reply to 288kingstreet]

Hi I fully understand what you have said and I did try to do a lot of ground work to find out if this was suitable for me. When I was waiting to have my procedure for helping of my patients who have waiting to be seen again by him and they have been very successful one pain-free for one year and the other pain-free for three years. So I feel a little bit more comfortable going for my procedure. when I walk up in recovery I was in excruciating pain because we had to do both sides of my spine and both hips. So they put me on morphine and liquid paracetamol and they had called when I woke up in recovery I was in excruciating pain because they had to do both sides of my spine and both hips. So they put me on morphine and liquid paracetamol and diehard recording. That helped reduce the pain but never took the pain away I am 2 weeks on from the operation and now I cannot understand for 15 to 20 minutes before the pain returns but when I'm sitting I mostly okay now. I know I have to be very careful and I have a long journey. But I hope I am like one of the people that I spoke to bye have a good period pain. What is the southern medication that you mentioned? I am happy to look into all avenues. Thank you for your concerns and your reply. I look forward to hearing from you. Take very good care.

[288kingstreet in reply to Jan101]

Depo-medro - was used for all my Epidural Steroid Injections. Many pain management specialist are using this "off label" drug at thier discretion either aware or unaware of the harm it causes. I stongly suggest looking it up or viewing some u-tube videos. It is very easy to understand how easily a Dr. can miss. I had several and the aftermath I felt was nothing less than a miracle - I wanted to hop, skip, jump and dance, for it took the sciatica pain away along with herniated and Bulging Discs at L3-4, L5-6 and S1-2. pain away for almost 2 years. I do not know which one went wrong. It only takes a misjudged slip as thin as the skin of an onion for the needle to by pass the Epidural layer and enter the Dura layer where our nerves are kept nice and safe floating in smooth spinal cord fluid. Once it's accidentally punctured just once, that's it. Nerves are no longer bathing in our spinal fluid but rather a chemical that should never ever, ever, be in our spinal cords. Don't let this scare the pants right off you yet, but I feel that two many people are being purposely blinded by not telling us the truth about how dangerous Epidural Steroid Injections are, let alone spinal surgeries. We always will here about the "good outcomes" because there have been those who have been so lucky, I was one of tbem. The Medical Care now is more like Industry with only profit in mind. The ones who have not been so extremely lucky you don't often hear from them, they're so beaten down with the severe constant deep burning pain as one symptom. I'm sure many have gone through alot of insulting behavior from the very Professionals we seek help from. It's an awful thing to think about as the first order of the Hypocratic Oath is "do no harm".

All the best in your research of Arachnoiditis.

Pass it along as knowledge is a very valuable and indispensable commodity.

[Jan101 in reply to 288kingstreet]

Hi thank you for that information I will certainly look into this. Like you I had steroids injections in my spine and at the moment can only stand for about 15 to 20 minutes before the pain starts to return. But they are telling me that it's early days as the nerves need to heel and I should get some results in around 4 to 6 weeks. I have very little pain to no pain if I just rest on my bed. So I am really hoping at around the 6th week I will be able to have no pain and get on with my life again. One thing the surgeon told me is that he could only reduce the pain but he could not take it all away. But I spoke to a couple of patients before going in for surgery as they were also waiting for surgery and one had no pain for three years and the other one had no pain for one year. So what I cannot understand the same surgeon today pain away and yet was telling me he could not take all the pain away😢 So I found it so quite confusing even confirmed it just before I was under the anaesthetic. I also wonder how long it takes the nerves that have been cut to heal. I appreciate everyone is different but I'm in a place off wonder and not knowing. Only time will tell if I'm going to be pain-free for awhile anyway. I also spoke to people who have had to 3 times with success . Once again thank you for your information and I will look into them before I see the surgeon again and have a more in-depth conversation with him. Take care

[Littlesheilacox in reply to 288kingstreet]

Spot on answers there, I also have arach it goes hand in hand with cauda equina !!! The nerves are a strange thing and play tricks after back surgery!!! I hope your having a better day today xx

[Littlesheilacox in reply to Jtal19305]

Same ,left heel feels like glass in the night esp xx

[Jan101]

Hi yes I have them both at home and I also took them last night. Thank you so much for your help. 👍👍😀

[Littlesheilacox]

Absolutely!!!!!!!!! Hey you're the first person who has the same as me!!! It's like glass in my heels esp at night ,I have cauda equina syndrome after 3 ops on L4 L5 S1,pain in calf radiates down 👇 the leg into my foot 👣 down the outer edge and into toes have you experienced any of that ??! Gentle hugs xx

[Jan101 in reply to Littlesheilacox]

Hi 👋 no it's not like feeling glass but it feels like a burning sensation. I have just undergone nearly 4 weeks ago my nerves lasered in my L3 to S1 and also in my hips so was quite a large procedure. One week after the procedure I started to get a burning sensation in the soles of my feet. It is really horrible. I am taking amitriptyline and pregabalin at first it seemed to help but not now, so maybe I will have to up my dose. I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling like a glass sensation going down your legs and into your feet. You should go and see your GP and see if they can prescribe something to stop the nerve sensation because that is what it is. I am no doctor but I know I never had this before and since my procedure it's the first time that I've ever had this. so it has to be the nerves. I wish you good luck and I hope that you get that feeling under control. Take care

[Littlesheilacox]

Hi Jan and thankyou for your reply,,I don't think I explained that right the pain that radiates from outer edge of my calf doesn't feel like glass that's like a deep throbbing and painful but at night I've noticed that my heels are burning and to the point like glass is stuck I it different to the calf pain which has me In tears!!; Still waiting for another m,r,I scan since February cx

[Jan101]

I am really sorry to hear how much pain that you're in. It sounds really awful. It's hard to believe that you have also had to wait so long for your MRI scan. I am quite lucky as I live near a hospital that is really good normally you only have to wait a few weeks for your scans and x-rays. Then a couple of weeks for the results. Is there nothing you can do to chase up your MRI scan? It sounds like you're going through a really tough tough time and I do feel for you. I truly wish you all the best and hope you get something done in the very near future. Take care x