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John, after ten years of pain, last week one night my feet were like ice cubes, not sure if that is "burning" or "freezing" since the symptoms might feel the same. The pain was the worst pain I have ever felt and I have given birth to eleven children some with no anesthetic. I couldn't get the pain under control so I took 2 vicodin, 1 Benadryl and then kept my feet on a heating pad for hours. Is this part of neuropathy? If so, I don't like it very much. 🙂
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Hi Mary, sorry to hear you are in so much pain. Like many others, my wife has severe neuropathic burning in her feet. She hates taking drugs due to the terrible side effects as well as the limited effectiveness most people describe. So anyway, the only thing she has found so far that has given her some relief is a product called Penetrex. She says it reduces her pain level about a third (e.g. from a 7 to a 4 for example) for 2-3 hours after use, which is something. In case you are not already aware of it and you are interested, you can find it on Amazon. I think others on Connect have tried it but I have not heard any feedback from anyone. I mentioned it in another post in May. Here is the page link if you'd like to see it (It's the post from Fri, May 15 6:54am):
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/anyone-here-dealing-with-peripheral-neuropathy/?commentsorderby=DESC#chv4-comment-stream-header
Good luck to you Mary, hope you find some relief, Hank
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@maryflorida, It's easy to understand why you don't like the burning pain. I don't think anyone would like it...it's the pits. Neuropathy has a lot of different symptoms and burning or freezing I think are included from what others have described. I just read a recent article that you may find helpful -- What to know about small fiber neuropathy: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/small-fiber-neuropathy
You mentioned in an earlier post that you had an appointment scheduled with a rheumatologist in early June. Are you able to share how the appointment went or if you found out anything more?