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margaret_edwards
margaret_edwards

hello, does anyone else get such pain in their foot or feet, that the muscles tighten up, making for pain, and an inability to move the foot or feet? it generally happens when for instance i have been out shopping, does also anyone find the muscles of the thigh tighten up so that you cannot lift the leg. making it difficul;t to get in a car, or up stairs etc. i go to see the 'rheumy', next week, so will mention it then. 'cp' reading good at 4. and inflammation is at 38. but i have stopped taking steroids. thsnks in advance. i look ijn the site daily. m.edwards.

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  • shebob
    shebob

    Posted

    Hi Margaret,

    I get an agonising pain on the top of my foot and I can`t move it. Also get terrible cramp when I get to the checkout at Tesco. Don`t know whether it`s the hard floors or the fact I`m wearing shoes instead of the usual slippers. Good luck with the rheumy. Regards, Shebob

  • queenbee
    queenbee

    Posted

    The thigh pain is exactly what I experienced when diagnosed with PMR but oddly enough the pain in the top of my foot that I took to the Docs turned out to be underactive thyroid. Probably not the same for you but I was just so surprised when he took one look at my feet and sent me off for thyroid tests and it proved to be so. No problem at all now I take the thyroxine.

    Betty.

  • margaret_edwards
    margaret_edwards

    Posted

    she bob.

    thanks for the reply. i will ask the 'rheumy' when i go next week. thats interesting my niece has thyroid probelems and is waiting to have the thyroid removed. i did wonder if the thigh problem was related to the 'pmr'. m. edwards

  • margaret_edwards
    margaret_edwards

    Posted

    queen bee. thanks for your reply, i got the thyroid mixed up with shebob, sorry about that. it must be my 68 yrs, and the print is small on the site, maing it difficult at times to read. m.edwards
  • EileenH
    EileenH

    Posted

    Hi Margaret,

    I've only just noticed your address - I was clearing out our house in Pity Me last week!!! If only I'd known, I would have called by!

    One of the worst bits of the PMR was the foot pain, especially when I stood up after being sitting for more than a few minutes. It eased a bit after starting to walk but was always there and got worse when standing too. It made doing anything/everything painful. It was along the outside edge, if you know what Imean, and felt as if someone was sqeezing it very very hard. It took a while after starting on steroids to go away and comes back if I try to go lower than the dose I was on about 4 weeks ago, which was 13.5mg every second day. I've just had a bit of a flare and went up to 17.5mg every other day for a week or so but am on the way back down again at 16.

    I also had pain deep in the hip joint which was worse when I put weight on the leg. That went away almost immediately with the steroids and has not come back at all. I hated not being able to move freely, but it was the pain in my joints that really got me down - and that doesn't seem to figure on the doctors' radar for PMR. It all improved dramatically within a few days after starting to take the steroids at 15mg a day.

    cheers from a very wet northern Italy, :roll:

    EileenH

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