Dealing with Nerve Damage & Anxiety

[WilhelmRilke]

I get the same "curled toes" feeling a lot in my right foot. Also can feel my right leg is a bit off when walking and get a lot of pain/tightness on the bottom of my right foot... which is from having a little drop foot... which is from having nerve damage... which causes weakness on that side of my body

Actually, one of the important steps I found in moving from anxiety to dealing with this problem as best I can, was starting to realize that every ache/pain/weakness wasn't a new symptom (a sign of something progressive or even just another horrible thing I had to put up with) but an extension of a singular problem. I guess visualizing the beast as one problem as opposed to the 50 symptoms it causes helps a little.

 

[eyennyGlimmer]

See your ok, mine went away, yours will too. I think it is from the feet twitches playing on the muscles and stuff..Just BFS..Jenn

 

[raptorx]

Hi,
This thing with my toes started over two years ago. That accompanied with tremors and tingles prompted me to go to a neuro. I thought for sure it was MS. The second toe on my right foot just felt bizarre. That something is touching me feeling, yet nothing was there. It latter became stiff feeling and at times like there was a bandage wrapped around it.
It drove me out of my mind.
I have been to the neuro several times since, Diagnosed with ET's and anxiety. Took anxiety meds first. Seemed to jolt alot. Went off them. Tried Topamax for the tremors, that made me extremely tired, and I also felt like my brain couldn't do simple math. Stopped them. Saw my neuro in August, we decided that I was better off without the meds for the ET's and if they got worse to set up a new appt. Still always fearful he was missing something (MS).
About a week later my fourth and fifth left toes started twitching. I call them dancing toes. (They still dance daily.) I phoned the neuro and got right in. He was perplexed, had me come back in a month. Said he didn't have any diagnoses that it fit into, my "wiring" was all normal. Try to ignore it. Come back in March. UGH.
So I continued to wonder what he is missing. The only neuro thing I could find involving toe flexing and cramps was Huntington's Chorea. Well, I was jerky and crazy, but that is hereditary.
Then I finally google "toe twitching" and find about bfs. I actually cried tears of relief when I read the forum. This seems to explain all my strange and annoying symptoms.
One good thing is that since the toes on my left foot have been dancing, the toe on my right foot is less bothersome. (Maybe like somebody stomping on your foot, so you forget about your headache kind of thing?)LOL.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.

 

[SonicSonic20]

My toes were killing me last night.....so I had to get my hot bath and soak! That is my remedy for everything....hot, hot bath. It didn't help, but anyway......