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Burning sensations on skin pressure points, i.e. elbows, hands, feet
Skin Health | Last Active: Feb 12, 2022 | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
I saw your post lisa. Have not been on mayo for quite some time. I can really relate your your dilema. I strated having this burning feeling in certain pressure points in my body. Mostly on the elbows mostly on my left side ....mostly worse in the late afternoon and evening. It's usually burning and/or uncomfortable feeling when I am sitting down on couch or chair. the burning sensation like I said on pressure points like elbows, legs, or butt when sitting even if 2 mins or less and seems like I can't remain still.......upon getting up and moving around it relieves the sensation. Went to neurologist 4 years ago..........he confirmed that it was Restless leg syndrome............there are different types of RLS but the classic symptoms are a feeling of burning, tingling, and a general sense of unable to relax when quietly sitting or even laying down and relieve comes when changing position and/or getting up. Diagnosis is by symptoms....there is not definitive diagnostic test.........all bloodwork etc....is usually normal RLS. I now take Gabapentin, and Klonopin to calm the "restless" nerves...........there is no cure for this........It's just something you have to learn to live with and take those medications for it..........They say there is a link between low iron (which I had) and now I take more iron (but that may not allevate the symptoms even when iron level becomes normal ) . Also it is believed there is a link between low thyroid and RLS also.......I was diagnosed with low thyroid 5 years ago and started taking the levothyroxine to put my thyroid back to normal. But even though I still have the RLS........there is a possiblity that I had LOW thyroid for years before I was diagnosed with it........hence I think (my theory) the RLS evolved due to the years of LOW thyroid. This is just my thinking on this. No Dr. Told me of that.....anyways I hope maybe this helps others and they can begin to pinpoint their syptoms down.
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My symptoms are very similar to yours: burning in my left buttock when sitting and burning/tingling sensation at pressure points - mostly on the left side. This started in 2021 with numbness in my left jaw a day or 2 after getting a vaccine. I am not and anti-vaccination. It progressed to the burning sensation. The neurologist in the hospital did not see any irregularities in my brain scan. I've had Hashimoto's Thyroiditis for 25 years and my endocrinologist says that the symptoms are not thyroid related. I believe that the burning in my buttock may be unrelated to the other issues because when I was giving a steroid the burning in my buttock stopped within a few days. and started up again when I resumed my hip stretches. I could feel my butt muscle moving over my ischium (bottom hip bone). My PCP says that this is normal, but I am questioning that! I iced my left buttock, sat on large bubble wrap and used and TENS and after a couple of months, the pain went away. I tried the hip extension again and the pain returned. I believe that is Weaver's Bottom and is unrelated to the other burning/tingling. Even though the buttock and joint burning/tingling occurred simultaneously, to me, they seemed to be unrelated. If you haven't tried a TENS unit, I strongly urge you to give it a try. When I wear it, I can sit comfortably.
I don't know if the Gabapentin that a second neurologist gave me helped with the burning/tingling in my pressure points or they went away on their own, because they went away about a month after I was hospitalized (I wasn't taking Gabapentin at that time). It seems that sunlight/UV exposure may bring this on. So, I don't know if the vaccine was the cause or it's just a coincidence. I still get the burning in my left jaw regardless on sun exposure.
I know that your post it from 2016, and I do hope that you have found some relief. But, I wanted to suggest the TENS unit just in case no one had mentioned it to you.
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Thank you for replying!! I haven't checked the site in a few months, but I checked it again today because I am going to another neurologist. I contacted a few other people with your name because I have been so desperate for answers. There is another lady from Puerto Rico on a different site I have not been able to communicate with who has same burning symptoms when sitting. If you are on Facebook maybe you can send me request or your email address instead of waiting for replies on this page.