Yes...I have traveled a long and painful journey. I've been poked and prodded and given all sorts of pills. But, I always come back to the structural issues around my feet. Neuroma surgery on both feet. Right foot between 2 and 3...and left foot between 3 and 4. I still have more pain as the day progresses....I still feel like I'm walking on a marble. Tonight, I took my sock off and under the light in the kitchen, I showed my wife the bottom of my right foot.This is also the one that became infected and required a second surgery with packing material left in the incision for three days. There is definite swelling between the second and third toes of my surgically operated on foot. I don't understand why I would have this swelling, if the nerve was removed. Also, I had an osteotemy of my big toe several years ago to relieve a painful joint from years of running. The pain is gone, but the shortened toe also pushes agains my second toe, and with the release of that ligament, my third toe is also pushed to the right. Could any of these dynamics have any bearing on the swelling on the bottom of my foot. I am going to be so upset about taking Neurontin and Lyrica for PN pain, when, and I do feel...I ice the bottom of the foot and take ibuprofen the burning and aching is diminished. I just don't understand why the swelling.
I realize that nerve pain is nerve pain. It has reached the point for me, that the cause of my horrible foot pain almost doesn't even matter anymore. Whether the chopping out of the nerves on my feet....or the monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance is the root of my foot pain....or I just have idiopathic PN.....I cannot seem to find what works or what doesn't work. The only thing that gives me partial relief is taking off the restrictive shoes...so my feet can spread....and that cuts down on the pain and burn.