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The idiopathic poly neuropathy in my feet started in my toes, and has progressed all the way back to my heels. This means that the soles of my feet are numb, tingling, and painful all the time as well, which causes balance issues now.
I don't know if it will continue up my legs into my calves, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
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Symptoms vary so widely. I know that my idiopathic PN is affecting my feet, but I know that chiefly because my two EMG's told me so. I suspect the loss of sensation in the bottoms of my feet was so incremental, so slow in its progression that I paid it no mind. As I memtioned earlier, I got my PN diagnosis in 2022. I'd gone to see a neurologist, not because my feet were feeling "odd," but because my balance was getting wonkier and wonkier. To my mind, my feet were feeling just fine (as "just fine" as a pair of severly flat feet can ever feel 🙂 ). It took the neurologist sticking needles into the bottoms of my feet and turning to me to ask, "Do you mean to tell me, Ray, you can't feel that?" That's when I knew I'd lost sensation. Yet to this day, I still think my feet are able to "feel" things (as accurately as they once did? probably not); I have to be forever reminding myself that I no longer have the feet of a 20-year-old.
Ray (@ray666)