Originally Posted by Cowcntry

This is what happened to me. Last Summer my new kitty cat scratched me on the top of my foot. About a week went by and it was very sore and hurt to walk on my foot. I went to the doctor and they lanced it. Not much puss came out of the sore, however 2 days later I could not walk on my feet. They both hurt like hell.
I went to my pcp and he said he didn't know what was wrong with my feet and why they are hurting. Meanwhile I am bawling my head off because it hurt. He said to me if you still hurt in a week come back and I'll give you a referal to a neurologist. I told him no, I need one now. In the meantime he gave me pain medicine to hold me over until I could see the neuro.
About 1 week later with this foot pain, my back went out. Now it was very difficult to walk because the feet and the back was hurting bad. I saw a pain specialist and he blocked a nerve, but that only lasted 12 hours of relief so that didn't work.
I had an MRI done of my neck & spine. In the meantime I am waiting for my neuro appt. So from the time the pain started I got to see the neuro about 5 weeks later. He did the nerve test. I am not sure what the name was. But, he put the needles and it would shock my muscles. He sais he got a little bit of nerve damage so he wanted me to get a punch biopsy done. I told him I had diabetes for about 10 years, didn't get serious with the disease until last year....... when I got my results back he said I got the neuropathy from my diabates.
My new neurologist just gave me a MRI of the spine, did some blood work, sending me to a gastro doctor because of my diareaha that I have had for 3 weeks and the wierd feeling I am feeling in my abdominal wal. I am also having sharp burning pains that are now shooting through my back, legs and arms, oh yea also my butt. Also going to find out if I have sleep apnea. But I don't have any tingiling, or numbness... just the burning sharp pain. Does this mean these things will come later? If I could have the numbness then the pain would go away, would that be right? This pain is the worst that I have ever felt and I can't stand it!!

Michele