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Posted 1/30/2013 8:57 PM (GMT -5)
For those of you w/ Bart and foot pain, what kind of pain is it? Joint, aching, muscle, neuropathy (stinging, burning)?
Posted 1/30/2013 9:34 PM (GMT -5)
For me, it's worse at night. And it's not stinging or burning.. they just ache. The best I can explain it is if you have been wearing high heels for a really long time and they were tight and had nearly no padding on the ball of the foot or heel. And you have been wearing them for so long that when you take off the shoes, you still feel no relief, mainly on the ball of the foot and heel. For me, it's very different than the lyme arthritis.
Posted 1/30/2013 9:40 PM (GMT -5)
For me it feels like my inside arch is really tight and the outer edge of my foot hurts like a foot cramp along with the back of my heel, not the bottom of the heel. I was told by a primary care doc a few years ago (I wasn't even 30 yet), that I must have plantar fasciitis based on how I described my pain but a podiatrist said no go!
Posted 1/30/2013 9:57 PM (GMT -5)
Wwjd- do your feet hurt all day? Mine ache but its for 20 mins to an hour or two at a time. They also have pins and needles from time to time (usually on my worst herxing days). It happens even when I am standing up which is a crazy feeling as I used to get pins and needles after sitting cross legged for too long. For a while a few years ago I got rid of all shoes with no arch support and only wore supportive shoes like keens where I could insert one of those arch inserts you can get at a drug store after standing on a big machine to get tested. They helped a ton. And I agree, the pain is more like an over worked foot pain that is more constant, nothing sharp or burning for me.
Posted 1/31/2013 1:50 AM (GMT -5)
Hey justascarf2,

That tingling you are describing is what made my doctor say I had Babesia, along with the night sweats. I noticed as the Babesia clears up, so does that pins and needles feeling. It is mainly on my heels though, now that I think of it.
Posted 1/31/2013 3:03 AM (GMT -5)
For me, the heels and ball of the feet are the most painfull.It feels like the soles are badly bruised, sometimes it feels more like burned. The rest of the foot is really tensed. Feels like the inside of my feet are too large for the skin, like they want to burst out of the skin...

It's worst when waking up, I almost can't stand on my feet the first 10 minutes. Or when I'm sitting with my feet up in the sofa for a while and then have to get up, I can't put my whole foot down, I walk like a very old lady. And they also make cracking noises. Throughout the day they are mostly just a bit tender, sometimes they tingle.

Wearing heels is painful, never knew why I couldn't do like other women, now I know. I only wear them for occasions, and put those silicone patches in them.

Posted 1/31/2013 9:25 AM (GMT -5)
Makes me wonder if this is really Bart or not. My pain is primarily tingling, stinging. I do get a feeling in the morning when I wake up like the skin is too tight (almost like a dry feeling). My foot joint do crack.

I'm wondering about babesia, but I don't have the night sweats, which seems to be a symptom that almost everyone w/ babs has.
Posted 1/31/2013 11:36 AM (GMT -5)
I have the same feelings of my skin being too tight for my foot. The only time I have night sweats is when I use the sauna. The rest of the nights, no sweating so my doc thinks I don't have night sweats! But the tingling- pins and needles feeling, definitely have that. Thanks all for the insights. Need to have a talk with my doctor.
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