Ugh. I’m starting a lot of posts with this word.
I was feeling pretty good tonight. I got over 5 hours of sleep today, broken up into several naps. I had a decent dinner, and my chest pain/pressure wasn’t bothering me too much. Anyway, I walked for about 20 minutes on the treadmill for about 0.6 miles. At the end, I started feeling a sharp stabbing pain in my right foot, right below the inside of the ankle. I think this is the first time that exercise made my neuropathy worse, or even appear out of nowhere.
I used to think that exercise helps relieve the pain somewhat. I did notice a huge wave of numbness in my legs/foot when I stopped walking on the treadmill. But exercise triggering the neuropathy pain? I didn’t expect that.
It’s been only 10 minutes and the pain is already excruciating. I took two Tylenol pills already but likely it won’t do anything. I guess no sleep tonight. I just hope it subsides by the time I have to go to dialysis. I can’t imagine sitting for four hours while feeling a constant stabbing pain in my foot.
I hate my life.
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Let me reiterate that this was a problem that used to appear every month or so. I can deal with one night of no sleep and sharp pain each month, though it was pushing my pain tolerance. Now that this seems to occur once every few days, plus my recent erratic sleep patterns, I am exhausted all the time. I was trying to get some work done around noon today but I kept nodding off in front of the computer. After about 30 minutes of this, I finally went to take a short nap and woke up at around 2:30 pm. Luckily, I did not receive many emails or text messages from work.
Life with chronic diseases 