Wife has extreme foot pain and we are getting nowhere with her PCP. AskDocs

Hello, I’m coming here out of complete desperation. Starting about two months ago my wife has began having foot pain right on the ball of her feet that spreads across her entire front part of her foot. The pain then was most an annoyance for her then. Now when an attack comes on, it brings her to tears. This is someone who has SLE, Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, and a host of other long names disorders that put her into pain. When I see her begin to cry I realize she is in pain on an extreme level.

This issue is aggregated when she walks even a few feet to the bathroom or to the refrigerator. The pain mysteriously wakes her up right around dawn each day for no discernible reason. Her mornings lately have been spent with her first one or two hours crying. Oddly enough, right before bed, is flares up again. We’ve been trying to keep ibuprofen and Tylenol in her system every six hours to give her some relief, but it doesn’t do much. We’ve also been trying CBD oil and it can’t really break through the pain either.

The only things that I can think of that brought this on were that in August we got a dog and she went from very little activity to walking the dog daily. She insists his isn’t it because she wears Brooks shoes that have excellent support.

At this point, her PCP has tested her for Gout and has referred her for an X-RAY. The doctor checked vitals and commented that her feet had good color and her heartbeat made her feel that there was good circulation. The PCP ruled out neuropathy from Type 1 based on the examination and because her family history shows that Type 1s often don’t have complications (when her uncle who was a life long Type 1 passed away, the person performing the autopsy couldn’t believe he was Type 1 because his insides looked like that of a normal person).

From my research, the pain seems to be around the metatarsal joints but I don’t want to self diagnose her. I’m begging for any strings to pull on, because I just want her to have pain relief. We’ve tried ice and heat to no avail and we’re not sure what else to try.

Submitted December 23, 2017 at 08:11PM by is_this_thing_off http://ift.tt/2D4AiT8 AskDocs