All - Since I've never really had anyone to discuss PN with who actually has it, I don't know if what I am feeling is a classic form of PN or not. I know that PN pain can manifest itself differently for different people and differently at different times in the same person.

Aside from numbness, burning, worminess, and tingling, I also have this sense of low-level throbbing all the time in my legs. Sometimes it is worse than others. Is a throbbing-type sensation considered typical in PN or does PN not typically involve a throbbing sensation? Just wondering.

Thank you.

I get throbbing in my feet, particularly after i lay down at night. Major cause of not being able to sleep. Interferential electrical therapy, vitamin b1 and amitriptylene all helped in part. I still get it from time to time and recently ive been getting it at night but alka seltzer has helped to dim the pain until i can sleep.

I have had both from my own onset several year ago... the issue becomes what you can get 'used' to versus what you have to deal with.
PLUG ME IN is one stage? Keep me connected to the Hi-power Tension wires is next, then, last? Hear the HUMMM...or something similar.
Trying and following some of Mrs D's ViteB regimens plus the calcium and magnesium and Vite D concoctions? Well? They DO help get that HUMM below brain numbing levels. That and meds on occasion, but at times they are both a blessing and a curse as the meds cause side effects we truly do not need. So read up the 'full prescribing information' of any and all meds you take. There could be a 'conflict' of some of those you take. Note? Docs try and see IF meds are not compatable? But they are not pharmacists... Read the details of all the meds you are on and talk to your Insurance pharmacy about your concerns...Then? Don't be shy about reporting real concerns to the FDA. Their web site is easy to use and access
This is your FDA Start point: http://www.fda.gov/SiteIndex/default.htm
I hope you feel better. Or learn to live with it, as I have. My degrees of pain now? Are far less than at my onset!
By the way? LOVE the description of 'worminess'!!! Wish I'd have thot of it!
Hugs and hope - 's - j

I get throbbing when my foot/ankle gets the feeling like it got run over. I have rsd and pn so not sure what is causing what.
Do you see a connection of when you get a throbbing feeling? Sometimes for me there is not one but sometimes if I have bene on my feet more then normal,a storm etc.

--but I seem to be able to distinguish between muscular/vascular throbbing and neurological throbbing; the latter is lighter, and more surface, with more of an electrical component.

I have, quite often, gotten a cycling "shooting" type of jolt in many body parts--a repeating impulse with a period of one-to-two seconds or so. This periodicity is longer than that of a typcially cascular throb, which cycles at a few times per second. It seems to be associated with some form of compressive action in the particular area.