Pain in feet????

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Ruptured or bulging disks are so common, especially in the lurabar spine. Apparently a ruptured disk doesn't hurt in the back, instead it causes pain in the extremity that is serviced by the root exiting the spine at that location.

The tingling, nurabness etc sound like it could be Disk pain to me or a corabination of the facet issues and foraminal narrowing. My Chiropractor and I hope this Orthopedic spine specialist I am about to see, agrees.

They both have used traction as a very effective method for pain that is caused by a disk. I know people who use an inversion table everyday and it had a dramatic impact (saved some from having surgery) Traction is not recommended if you have fusion in the area, because fused areas are easily fractured. I have no fusion according to my sacrum XRay but I have not had an XRay of the Thorasic area.

A friend of mine had almost identical symptoms resolved with therapy and traction. My mother had terrible hip pain and the spinal specialist said it was her bulging disk. He sent her for therapy and the pain resolved with therapy so I am hopeful.
 
i havent read all ur posts, please apply bengay, that may work? i am also suffering same kind of problem, bump, someone adviced me to apply bengay, it healed, but i do have doctor appointment 20th this month. so i didnt no what to do, what the doctors says if its heals off completely, so i stopped rubbing the bengay over my feet. please give it a try.
 
If you do a search on dermotone charts you will find that nerve pain can be a result of L4, L5, and s1 which are located in the lurabar area. I have problems with all 3 levels and suffer with 24/7 foot pain.
 
Thanks again everyone, it appears to be a herniated disk at T3 and T7 and a bulging disk at about L4/5? Anyway, they can see that some calcification has started to compensate for the alignement issues in the spine. I was in a car accident at around age 20 and we feel this may have got me started on the road to back problems. The car was like an accordian and my back and neck hurt fior so long after that day. Since then I have hurt my back bad and had some bad skiiing and snowboarding falls.....all snowballing to my current state.

Anyway, I start chiropractic care and maybe therapy with no weight lifting or skiiing/boarding, high impact activities for a while. I guess I should have stopped weight lifting when all this started.

The things that puzzle me are why were my symptoms so bad when I fisr started to get the nurabness and pain back in October? Was it my body going into some sort of initial shock or "dealing with it" stage? I remeraber waking up with half my leg nurab, having tremors, shakes, very weird. Since then maybe my body has compensated and leveled off a bit. The biggest problem is in my right leg and foot. using Orthopedic tests they could recreate some of my symptoms so they really think much of this is mechanical.

Also, I have benign floaters in my right eye and they get worse when my symptoms get worse, leading me to believe this could all be autoimmune related. However, I know floaters get worse with stress and I get stressed when my symptoms act up.
 
Have you had a EMG/nerve conduction test? It could possibly show what nerve is effecting your legs/feet. The nerves in the L4-S1 region can really effect your legs and feet. I had surgery on two ruptured disc in 2005. My back also hurt before surgery and after. My legs are in extreme pain. I hope you find out what is going on with your back and the issues can be resolved quickly.
 
have you gone to a podiatrist and had a fulll sensory grade done? It could be worthwhile to start monitoring any sensory loss due to neuropathy. it can get a bit serious otherwise.
 
What is a sensory grade? I had three neurologists check me and run tests and also have seen my podiatrist numerous times with normal results.
 
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