Fellow soakers;

Has anyone else experienced pain from soaking your feet in Epsom salts?

I have just pulled my feet from the water (lukewarm) on my 4th day of trying an Epsom salt soak because it was causing burning pain. Has anyone else had this happen to them? Should I continue - push through the pain for a greater good, so to speak, or stop?

I also take magnesium supplements. Could the epsom salts be too much?

Any comments are appreciated.
Doxie

Doxie, how much are you putting in the water? How much water?

That was my thought. How much is going into the water and how much water? The soak should not cause pain.

Another question...is there any pain with a plain water soak? Is this city water? Are you smelling any strong chlorine smell?

Questions questions...fun huh?

But really, you shouldn't be having pain.

Another thought. The water I soak in is lukewarm but just barely. If it is just a tad too much then I will have pain. Now that would be water that others would think is pretty cool. My feet are extremely sensitive as many others who have CMT.

And, of course, there are those with CMT who can stand "really" warm water. Everyone is different.

All;

Thanks for all your questions and input!

I used about 1/4 cup of epsom salts to 4 quarts of water. The water is city water (No smells) and is lukewarm, maybe I should try cooler water and good point about trying a soak with nothing added. I will.

Anyone or anything else?

THX~
Doxie

Oh dear..... today I just bought a little soaking tub and some epsom salts. I also take magneseum supplements. Now I'm kinda of hesitate to try it...

I have never had pain from epsom salts. I always soak in the tub and don't use foot baths.

You may be using too much. I'd cut back to an ounce/gallon, maximum.

4 quarts is not very much water. At high concentrations it might sting like any salt would on any open areas of the skin.

Examine your feet and see if you have cracks in the skin, or athlete's foot, or any open areas. People with numbness in the feet often have small injuries they don't notice.
Now would be the time to find these areas, before they become infected with something. (fungal or bacterial).

I use about 4 ounces in the BATH TUB... soak up to my ankles.
Sometimes I will sit in it for a while too. It is totally relaxing.
Getting out you have to be careful... epsom salts make things slippery.

In a small dishpan size tub the 4 ounces would be too concentrated I think. But you could use it for compresses that way. I've done that on vacation where there is no bath tub.
I did my knee that way and just kept rewetting the cloth, with the concentrated salts..worked really well.

Well I did my big soak today, and checked the bag of epsom salts I use for it, and it said 2 CUPS per gallon! That has to be a typo..error!

I NEVER use that much! I put in my typical small dixie cup and it was splendid. I go up past the ankles, because my left has that old surgery scarring, and that ankle bothers me sometimes.
( I had a cavernous hemangioma removed from the top of that foot when I was 12).