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I sprained my ankle pretty badly on Halloween in 2023 and in the following 2 weeks or so ended up injuring it a lot more which the doctors think is what caused it even though I had thought it had fully healed. It originally started as just ankle pain that I just woke up with one day and has since spread to being my entire leg with the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life. I can’t walk well, I use a cane to get around if I’m not at home and limp when I don’t use it. There has been temperature and color changes, like I know sometimes it’ll look almost purple and it can be both really cold and really hot depending on the day. There definitely is swelling at times, and the pain can change but it’s always there in some form and even the lightest bit of pressure feels like needles on my skin. They told me it was CRPS because I had nothing show up on MRIs, nerve tests, blood work, xrays, etc. I have not tried a lidocaine patch but it’s been brought up, I’ll probably end up trying that. Thank you.

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Sometimes pain in the foot originates in the lumbar spine. Did you have an MRI of the low back?