I am reaching out for much needed information. After spending hours researching anything that closely resembled my situation, I am now more confused and scared!
Over the summer, I developed a mortons neuroma in my left foot (I suspect I have one in my right foot as well). It became somewhat painful and I consulted with a podiatrist in September/mid to end of September and she gave me two cortisone injections. Within a week of the 2nd injection, I started to get a burning sensation. By the end of October, I had severe burning, tingling, foot feeling cold than hot, intermittent numbnesses, skin color changes etc which than spread to the other foot. Podiatrist than said it was pain out of proportion and dxd CRPS. I started seeing a PM doctor who started me on gabapentin 1200 mg per day and he will start sympathetic nerve blocks this Wednesday.
The PM doctor feels confident that this is treatable because the diagnosis was made early. However, these are my concerns:
I am not sure if I have CRPS 1 or CRPS 2? PM didn't say either way but if this involves a nerve in my foot (Podiatrist said it was very small??) wouldn't it be CRPS 2? From what I read in this forum, than no matter what treatment I get for my feet the pain will not go away or lessen unless the mortons neuroma is addressed?
I really am desperate for any input/suggestions about my situation.
I had to go on a leave of absence from work because the burning(Which is only on the bottom of my feet) became so severe and I found it hard to actually put any pressure on my feet. The bottoms of my feet just burn 24/7,