Foot neuropathy: What gives you relief?

It really depends on what is causing it. I know you said neuropathy but still, that has causes. I had monthly steroid injections into my right heel for most of the last year, by a great foot/ankle surgeon. Suddenly, it's stopped. Thank God. I've been using compression socks for years, they helped too. I had one really big bunion, on the right foot removed. That helped a lot because my greatest pain came from that one source, doing stabs of pain like lightening, whenever it felt like it. Of course, recovery from bunion surgery wasn't painless, but it's healed now. I've used Mentholatum (generic) rub all over the painful parts, in years past. I've got lidocaine lotion to put on it too. I found an NSAID topical gel while in Scotland, UK, back in 2017, called Voltaren, and it's now sold OTC in the USA too. It helps with so much. If you aren't taking something systemic for neuropathy, I'd look into it if it continues to be part of your daily life. Gabapentin works nicely on me for that, as my neuropathy is poly (many) places, not just one foot.

@katrina Welcome to connect We aren't Dr,s but tell of our experience . I have neuropathy ,fibromyalgia and lots of back problems . Have you seen your Dr or rheumatologist ,neurologist about Gabapentin for the neuropathy? Also I use for mine a product called Fibro cream by Topricin It does help me along with the gabapentin. Stretching your feet helps also along with exercise of the feet as you said. Good luck

I've not heard of magnesium gel. That might do me a lot of good. I have IBS and my stomach just will not tolerate me taking any supplement magnesium. I'll have to get some and try that. My Gabapentin is at 600 mg, 3 times a day. As far as I know, no side effects. I was on Lyrica before this and for me Gabapentin is really better for me. I was going to say I take it on rising in the morning, but that's not always true. I do a medset, which means I lay out all my medications for a week at a time. I bought a nice and sturdy case to do this a couple years back. Each day can then be taken out and I put that next to my bed. If I wake in extra pain, and it's like 6 am or later, I just take my morning set of pills in there. It has my Tylenol, and Losartan, everything in pill form. I do the same when I go to bed, or if I am staying up real late, by 10 pm, to try and keep it all balanced. My midday is at 1 or 2 p.m, unless I took it early that day, then about Noon. I've been real lucky to not have much side effects with the Gabapentin but until recently I was max NSAIDs, and some steroid injections too. Both of those are nixed now. My kidney's can't take NSAIDs unless it's maybe one dose per week as rescue medicine. And it turns out even the steroid injections are causing me troubles. my spine is growing fat inside it and that's both rare and a problem. I'm looking for a neurosurgeon next for that and stenosis there.

It really depends on what is causing it. I know you said neuropathy but still, that has causes. I had monthly steroid injections into my right heel for most of the last year, by a great foot/ankle surgeon. Suddenly, it's stopped. Thank God. I've been using compression socks for years, they helped too. I had one really big bunion, on the right foot removed. That helped a lot because my greatest pain came from that one source, doing stabs of pain like lightening, whenever it felt like it. Of course, recovery from bunion surgery wasn't painless, but it's healed now. I've used Mentholatum (generic) rub all over the painful parts, in years past. I've got lidocaine lotion to put on it too. I found an NSAID topical gel while in Scotland, UK, back in 2017, called Voltaren, and it's now sold OTC in the USA too. It helps with so much. If you aren't taking something systemic for neuropathy, I'd look into it if it continues to be part of your daily life. Gabapentin works nicely on me for that, as my neuropathy is poly (many) places, not just one foot.