I’ve been lucky for a few weeks. Each time neuropathy pain occurs, I’ve been able to take some pain medication and sleep it off. Not tonight. I felt some pain at the top of my left foot yesterday. I quickly took some Tylenol and the pain went away. However, it came back to the same spot about an hour ago while I was sleeping. The pain woke me up and I’ve been trying to massage the spot with no avail. I also took another two Tylenol pills but it had no impact this time. The pain feels like it’s coming from just under the surface of the skin but no amount of hitting or putting pressure on the spot has any impact. In fact, due to the neuropathy, I don’t feel anything there at all except the nerve pain.
In addition to the persistent pain attacks, I’ve notice a huge increase in the number of one-off nerve pains. They would be super painful, but only hit once. Next time, it would be in a different spot. I have no idea what’s going on with that. Maybe it’s affected by the edema so hopefully draining some of the fluids will help.
I’m fully awake now. There is no sleeping anyway in the midst of an attack. I’m going to walk up/down my short hallway to see if that helps.
Life with chronic diseases 