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Originally Posted by ~Sage~
Vrae, that's why I'm so nervous about even a small surgery as in lopping off the end of a toe. From everything I've read, ANY trauma can set off RSD. And no surgeons we're likely to get know much about it, not enough to make me comfortable anyway. A stroke IS brain trauma and discectomies are definitely trauma.
The lightning bolts of pain that enter my toes can cause my leg to fly up in the air. Peripheral Neuropathy. That happens much less now but is still often the result of removing a shoe and my foot is screaming, even without the lightning bolts.
Can you describe a bit more about painful numbness? I'm wondering if my foot qualifies...  |
The way I have described it to ohers is this - imagine your leg submerged in ice water for 30 minutes........that is painfully numb!,
Mine worsens with weight bearing, improves with elevating the leg, but is constanly there.