Buring feet/over sensitive to heat and feel like giving up

Sounds very very similiar to me. Cant remember if it was nortriplene or amatriptylene. It was the first thing prescribed. Never worked. Im open for you to communicate. My feet are so bad i stick them in a basin of raw ice at work. For the past few months now sleeping has become a problem. I too feel being on them or having them get hot are triggers

Hello there mate, I'm Tom! Nice to find someone with similar problems, I'm an engineer and depend on my job! Life's just getting harder and harder, with the pain getting worse and worse, I'm 27 and used to be very very active! Now I can go swimming and that's my only option of excessive due to my feet constantly burning, especially after 10/20 mins standing, then that's it!! There on fire :-( have you been diagnosed as yet, they have not found a diagnosis for me yet, feel like I'm fighting a losing. Battle things just go so slowly with the doctors etc

I am not exactly dealing with what you are dealing with but have had numb big ties fir over a year and then the burning started in the soles of my feet.  First suspect is usually diabetes.  I am not diabetic.  A drug that is often prescribed, and seem to help some people, is Gabapentin (which I was already on for GI issues and still am).  You probably need to see a Neurologist for testing.  Always a chance it could be caused by a spinal issue.  My initial testing was inconclusive and I was referred to a Neurologist at Stanford.  He repeated his own testing, did not think it was from my spine.  He then ordered punch biopsies be done.  They took 3, one from the top of each foot and one from my upper thigh. These have to be sent to a special lab (mine were sent to New York) and results take about 2 weeks.  I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy.  You might want to look that up.  Many doctors, including my own, have never heard of it and don't think to check for it, but probably see it more often then they realize.  I was referred to a pain clinic but don't choose to take any more drugs then I do now.  Sometimes, the cause cannot be found and is diagnosed as idiopathic neuropathy.  

Thank you for your reply, I've been on amatriptyline nearly 2 weeks now but after the experience I had last night, think I'm going to stop taking it, my heart was racing like crazy all night, didn't get any sleep was quite scary!!! Yes this sounds similar to my problems, sometimes my feet are burning and sometimes there very numb or both, very painful welts trying to work!!! Yes I will look in to small fibre neuropathy!!! What's a punch test? You mentioned thanks you

So is there a cure, for idiopathic neuropathy or small fibre neuropathy or is it's just a case of taking medication for pain relief!! :-/

How about this, I'm a nurse I need my feet or I got nothing. There isn't really any true diagnosis for small fiber neuropathy they can diagnose with an EMG full neuropathy. From all of what I read sounds like small fiber has worse symptoms but in the long-term Fulmer apathy is worse as you could lose mobility and have muscle wasting. What I found with me with the multiple doctors I've gone to is they seem to take a good history of me and they base it on that. Since I've had a negative EMG study twice they think the small fiber neuropathy. Then I had a skin biopsy which in layman's terms said there's a strong possibility I could get it down the road yet it's inconclusive if I have it now. I remember my doctor being disappointed in saying that's kind of like saying your a little bit pregnant. Mine started about 10 years ago in his gradually worsened. Cold weather certainly helps me and the summertime is just the worst

I wish I knew!!  Not that I have been told.  Possibly if a spinal problem is the cause, there may be some treatment.  From what I have been told, it is more management.

Oh, forgot.  One of the first things the Neurologist at Stanford did was check my B-12.  I had been tested here but was in the low range of normal so my PCP said it was OK.  The Neurologist told me to take a B-12 supplement, helped me a little.  B vitamin deficiencies can cause neuropathy so ask your doctor to check, just a blood test.  You could try taking the B-12 or a B complex.  My circulation was checked and that is ok.  So, no real answers for me so, for now, I am in the idiopathic class.  The Pain Clinic wanted to prescribe Lyrica, in place of the Gabapentin, but I refused for now.  I am managing ok right now.

Yes I've had a few blood tests, including B12 tests all fine!!! So I'm in the same boat as you, still looking for a diagnosis, I have started taking vitamin b-complex anyway recently just in case, and also omega 3 fish oil!!! I decided 2 days ago to stop the amitriptyline, I could only handle it for 2 weeks and I know it takes longer for full affect but the side effects were just to much for me to handle!! And I don't think I would of coped at work, going back on Monday! So would like to be drug free, but now I cannot sleep, I'm having withdrawal symptoms from just 2 weeks! At night my hearts just pounding like crazy and sleeping is impossible! So I'm glad I stopped it early! Its a very powerful drug!!!

Do you take any medication!!! I tried amitriptyline but, the side affects for me was to much, very powerful drug!!!

Hello Cabonick recently had a nerve conduction study and a MRI scan on both feet, witch I was really looking forward to results I fort finally I may have some answers but apparently everything is normal, witch I know is good! But unfortunately. The pain won't be relieved yet!!! There sending me to a back specialist next!! To see if that's effecting my feet in any way!!!

I also suffer from burning feet after taking gabapentin.

I read a medical journal article that you may want to read called Gabapentin Induced Polyneuropathy.

I developed carpal tunnel and concurrent ulnar nerve entrapment at the wrist and the neurologist prescribed gabapentin to help with the pain.

The gabapentin helped with the carpal tunnel forearm pain, but I noticed my hands became much more sensitive. A week after taking gabapentin my feet (which never had problems) started tingling. A week later my feet started burning and a week after that my left foot started dragging when I walked. At that point I started a one-week “taper” of gabapentin from 900 mg a day to completely off the drug in one week.

My feet continued to get worse for approximately 2 to 3 months after stopping and then they started getting better, just like the person in the journal article listed above. After about four months of slow improvement, my symptoms got worse again. My feet have continued to get worse for the past two months.

All of my symptoms seem to point toward gabapentin induced small fiber neuropathy, and I am getting a skin biopsy in early March.

SERIOUSLY...Get your B6 checked. Identical issues and my B6 was deficient. Took super b complex and additional b6 and solved over 8 years of problems.

Check your b vitamin levels. Especially b6. Cured my 8 year problem after diagnosed with poly neuropothy. I kept asking WHATEVER is causing the neuropothy. Finally had a doc check my b vitamins. Was low on b6. Took super b complex and an additional b6 and solved all my problems. Doctors SHOULD know to check this but they dont.

Get vitamin B6 and B12 checked. I was deficient in B6 and that was the problem!

Have your B6 checked. Mine was B6 deficiency and I am now symptom free after 8 years of doctors, mri's, gabapentin, physical therapy, you name it.

Get your vitamin B6 checked. Solved my problems.

Get your vitamin B6 checked! Solved my problems.

Get your b6 checked. Completely solved my problems.