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Originally Posted by HarryDresden
Thanks a lot zookester,
The osteopenia showed up around month 3 in the toes,your 100% right i should explore this with my doctors so i understand what might have caused it. I see some literature relating stage 1 CRPS with patchy bone loss, but its unclear what the cause effect is.
I hope it doesn't take 2 years to restore ROM, but i wouldn't be surprised.
My Symptoms: warmth, redness, odd twinges, small electric shocks. The foot often feels sore to walk on, but I feel this could easily be part of the recovery process. These are the symptoms and pain level that I have had for the last month or so.
My symptoms seem to increase as the day goes on. Starting with no symptoms (0 pain) in the morning and increasing tell around 7-9pm (2 pain). Around 7-9 their seems to be a slight boost in symptoms. Which then fades around 10-11 (1 pain).
Symptoms increasing/decreasing don't seem to be correlate with how much i exercised that day. Squatting plus a mile of walking resulted in less pain then days when I only do mild walking.
Driving (pressing the petal) seems to be the most uncomfortable activity.
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Regarding the osteopenia showing up at month 3 - unless you had a base line prior to month 3 there would be know reason to believe that this was caused from CRPS. Osteopenia in CRPS is usually a much later stage of disease process or in those with a severe case in which by your history this is not the case for you - so I do hope you get it checked out.
Your symptoms above sound more like the healing process - it would not be uncommon for pain to increase in the morning after sleeping as this is when inflammation and stiffness occur due to disuse while sleeping it is also a common symptom as an inflammatory response to the normal healing process, as is the increase in warmth and even twinges of nerve pain.
It also makes total sense the the most uncomfortable thing for you is the driving as this would be when you would utilize the small bones (toes) the most. Have you ever used a 'balance board' for therapy? It is often utilized for ankle sprain/brakes but,I would bet it would be good for you for your toes as well.
Lastly, regarding ROM in your toes - there are many worse body parts to have reduced ROM
.. keep up with your fitness routine and don't forget to massage your foot (especially the toes) to facilitate healing and brake up any scar tissue that is forming. Massage + epsom salt soaks + physical therapy = speedy healing
and if it truly turns out to be CRPS then all these things will have helped you already.