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Originally Posted by JoanB
I did a search for peripheral artery disease here and found this thread. You know, I've been bringing up that possiblity over and over to docs, but nobody ever seemed to listen to me. Until this last Tuesday. A new doc (rehabilitation medicine specialist) is ordering that Doppler thingamabob test.
While we never got to hear what happened with the original poster of this thread, I will let you know what happens with my test.
Just hope I'm not doing the old can't-accept-idopathic-grasping-at-straws thing yet again, because it would at least explain why my legs hurt so much with even moderate exercise. And shiny skin, and hair loss, and cold feet, and stuff. You know.
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Hi. Mine was vascular just like nide44 said. And I think yours is too. I ended up having peripheral vascular disease and I was put on nifedipine which worked great, for a while. Then the leg pain started. I was a runner, loved to run, until a few months after starting the medicine. I got claudication whenever I ran. Even trying to walk some hurt my legs, it sucked! My advice to you is to push doctors for things, you know what your feeling and you know its not normal. I'm 35 years old, not what a heart & vascular patient should look like but along with my PVD I was in the hospital Thanksgiving morning with heart failure. I got lucky and found a vascular doctor that even though he thought, "we're not going to find anything", he tried tests anyway. Now I see a cardiologist that I love, I've gotten my medicine adjusted and for the most part I'm feeling a lot better. My feet still burn sometimes and I've noticed that when I eat a lot of sugar they get worse but its better than it was when I originally posted to this site. By the way, about the sugar thing, I was told that sugar makes your blood thicker kind of syrupy so its harder to flow and less blood flow to your feet will make your feet burn and go numb. You may want to try that.
I don't know if any of you have PN or PVD but if you have any questions about anything please let me know. I've been to neurologists, rheumatolgists, vascular surgeons, cardiologist, nutritionist, etc. maybe there's something I've discovered along the way that could help?