I should add one more thing which is really strange.

I had a total hysterectomy in 2000. All this time I have been on HRT (Vivelle dot., .05 mg transdermal patch). These past 7 years I have never lowered the dose as I believed I was fine and per my ob/gyn I was. But I did ask her on occasion if estrogen could cause burning or sensory disturbances and she said yes. So, I experimented because we both thought I needed more.

Just recently I have had to change and go to another ob/gyn because the other one is downtown and it is very hard for me to drive there anymore with spinal problems.

To make a long story short, I am now 50 and my requirements over the last 7 years have changed. So, the new ob/gyn said I could lower it to .025 and hopefully I can come off of this in another year and take Fosomax or something similar along with Calcium and D. So, I switched and for 3 weeks now have been at a lower dose.

Anyway, I could NOT believe it! The cramps, pain, burning in my lower legs, ankles and feet have also stopped! I do have lumbar issues and still have radiculopathy but it is so much easier to tell now what is what. Instead of wondering what was causing what. I KNOW what radiculopathy feels like and this wasn't it and I mean the burning sensations. Or it could be that my lower half has finally caught up to the second fusion I had in my neck. I really don''t know.

So, there you go. You just NEVER know especially with an idiopathic diagnosis.

And I hate to say this but I never really did take the B vitamins. And it was only because I was tested and was never deficient in it. I am just saying you have to look at sooooooo many different things. I just never knew that some of the sensory disturbances were being caused by the little ole estrogen patch or rather too much estrogen.