Intense Toe Pain - At Hotel Alone

[NordicPrincess]

Hi. I'm at a hotel now-weekend with my boy friend. I have developed so intense pain in my left big toe, very small spot right over the outer corner of nail.started yesterday, intense stikking for about ten seconds, then away, then on and on and on...way away last night, came back to day, worse and worse for every minute. i cry now, not able to do ANYTHING. can not see a doctor here, many hours waiting and he wont see or feel anything. i'm desperate. what is this?? my left hand is numb and i'm dizzy. when i google i only get MS hits... with stories like my other symptoms as well. anyone felt this?? intense needeling, like 4 mm under the skin. see nothing. have normal feeling when touches. scared!

 

[TwitchyMD]

The pain as well as numbness of big toes (usually the tips or along the nail) is not uncommon generally, its an issue with the small nerve branches there. E.g. I have numb tip of my left big toe..

 

[jerryTwo]

I think you are having a panic attack with the dizziness and numbness Try to breathe slowly and get on open air. The scare of the pain must of triggered it I can reassure you this kind of pain goes away in hours or days, I had it in one of my toes when I was on vacation this year and it ruined my day, it was so strong and like you said, like a nerve spasm, severe pain and stop and again and again. Few days later I got in in the bottom of the sole (foot) again lasting for few hours. The it stopped and since have not returned. So that kind of pain is not unusuall.Try to deconcentrate on it as much as you can. You just were in a hospital for extensive evaluation, I don't believe local hotel doc can help you with the nerve pain. I really doubt you would be writing on the net with heart attack, ask your boyfriend to evaluate your condition as I can not see you from here. From your description you have a panic attack on top of the toe pain. It doesn't sound anything serious to me nor something I didn't have and many others here.Try to relax and see if it any better, at least the numbness. Surfing on the google from your hotel is a NO NO. You were in the hospital for MS, remember?YoursJerry

 

[LisaQ.]

I can't even imagine what search terms you must have used in order to find "MS" associated with pain in your big toe. Gout is the most common cause of big toe pain, and I never found MS even once when I searched, not that I would expect to. That's because toe pain is not even remotely a symptom of MS. Sciatica can also cause stabbing pains in the big toe. Do you have lower back problems? Blessings, Sue

 

[NordicPrincess]

Thanx. i took max dose of pain killers and sleeping meds and better to day but i'm afraid it will cpme back. jerry, did no tests for MS when at hospital last time and it was not a panic attack. i know what that is. the numbness and dizziness comes and goes, comes out of the blue even when i'm fine elsewise. I google needles in toes.... and came to MS side where a lot of my symptoms where described. like feelings of walking om needles, feelings of a thight rubber band around my toe, extreme pain in feet..and so on.. well have to go, Really hope it wont be as bad again!!

 

[NordicPrincess]

About sciatica: my chiropractors throught I had that in both sides jan-april, I had extreme pain in low back, buttocks, legs..my but literally wasted way.. but I got only worse and worse after treatment and when symptoms started in upperbody also, my GP told me not to go back to chirop. my pain started right after a very bad stomach infection, that do not point to sciatica..?. I don't know if they where right or wrong. i have pain in low back and butt and feets now also but not as bad as jan-june..and i never had this extreme pain in toe then...i screamed yesterday, it was Ooo painful :/

 

[NordicPrincess]

I'm not swollen, not warm and just a bit red. it's not located in joint, it is INTENSE sticking/needlesright under the top "corner", over the nail. feels like About 3-4 mm under the skin.. And I wrote wrong before, kirop. throught I had "piriformis syndrome" both sides.. but i Really doubt it since I developed the same kind of pain and other symptoms in upper body as well..but if it were not symptoms in upper body I might have throught they could be right.

 

[LisaQ.]

Pins and needles is not the same thing as feeling a "stabbing" pain, which seems to be what you are describing? Pins and needles is more of a sensation that your foot has fallen asleep, and is waking back up, which is super common with BFS. What you are describing really sounds more like a sciatica or some sort of nerve entrapment syndrome. Blessings, Sue

 

[NordicPrincess]

Yes, I agree with you there, but really strange since the pain in low back/butt, leg comes and goes and is cot as contant and bad as it was the first six mounths with symptoms and then I did not have this pain. No, it's absolultely not pins and needles like that, it is an extreme pain, pulsating kind of pain..

 

[Fjordian]

Lately, I also experience some extreme stabbing pain in my toes but it's very temporalily, it only lasts a few second.I don't know if it's in any relation to my other symptoms.But I think it's just a good thing that your pain is not as constant and extreme as it was for the first six months.For me it's the same, still have flare ups and a variety of (odd) symptoms but it's not as painful and extreme as it was in the first months.

 

[NordicPrincess]

Thank you Sue!Yes, I know one don't need to have back pain when sciatica, specially if it's piriformis syndrome, witch was what the kirop thought I had (have). Then you feel the pain from butt/hips and downwards. I just thought one had to feel the pain in butt/hip/leg AT THE SAME TIME as the pain in the toe if the pain in the toe had a connection to this, but I didn't have so bad pain elsewhere when my toe was crazy as H..., but now I've more pain again in butt/hips/legs, so I do think there actually is a connection there.I've never heard of "inversion table". Can you post a picture, or a link? Do I have to go to the gym to do it, or have you bought one yourself? The kirop gave me a lot of needles in my butt (piriformis) and streched so hard I was more painful than giving birth!! I cried and screamed.. I also got exercizes to strengten the muscles in the area, and streching exercises, but all of this only made me worse, and pinally I got to another kirop that that looked at my hips with ultrasound and said I didn't have piriformis syndrome, and that I had to stop doing all those things that only made me worse. At the same time I started getting symptoms in upper body as well, and I thought the last kirop was right. My GP said the same. But sometimes I wonder maybe I have piriformis syndrome and also BFS or other decease(s). Thank you for caring!