Burning Feet

I know we've discussed this before so bear with me! Recently I've been having alot of burning and pain in the soles of my feet and the Ami and Lyrica I take isn't controlling either my V or my foot pain very well so I decided to try and establish what was going on with my feet. My GP immediately wrote it off as nerves but my last physio said because I hyper-pronate the muscles in my feet and the fascia underneath are all a mess so she didn't think it was nerves. I looked it up a few times over several evenings and found a few sites about foot pain that have links for both peripheral neuropathy and plantar fasciitis and found the defining symptom to distinguish between the two is muscle tenderness, this intrigued me because I've had my doubts about whether my V is nerve related or not and as I have muscle tenderness and soreness in and around the vulval area I think it's more likely to be muscular coming from my wobbly pelvis. As neuropathy in the feet apparently should have NO muscle tenderness and my soles feel really tight and sore (as do my lower legs) I think it's more likely to be inflammation of the fascia and it kind of confirms for me that my V is coming from muscular origins too. What I wondered was if any of you ladies that have burning elsewhere have trigger points or spasms that could be the source rather than nerves? If you have burning hands look in your shoulders around the back and sides for muscular problems and if it's the scalp try your neck, muscles that run along the sides of the spine or directly under the area that burns. I'd be very interested to know if anyone else who thinks it might be neuropathic pain actually has muscular problems that could explain it instead.

Hey Sarah --

I get burning in my hands and feet occasionally.

The body is a system of nerve pathways, connections, etc etc...so I can see the correlation between a burning vulva and burning in other parts of the body....

I think it would be tied in with peripheral neuropathy... I hate that terminology, sounds so doom and gloom...

So, yeah some ladies on here have mentioned burning in other areas of the body, so there's got to be something to it.

I obviously haven't made my point very well! The point I'm making noni is that with peripheral neuropathy there should be NO MUSCLE TENDERNESS and I was wondering if any of you ladies with other areas burning too had muscular problems that could account for that.

I have had alot of experience with this type of thing. In all areas. My feet burn too, but on the top right before the toes. It seems to alternate in minutes from, burning vag, then the feet. But? i have a serious neck problem. With muscle troubles too, as well as bone issues. It can make the skin on my arms burn. it does. I have had all sorts of things like this from bones-muscles nerves. I think a muscle problem can make the burning.
Ten years ago i was severely injured by a dentist. he dislocate my jaw. anyways, the muscles were very sore, They created severe burning pain.
Anxiety! believe it or not. gives me burning arms. It also will target anything not perfectly healthy. For example. Lately its my v area, so any anxiety will make my V burn. after ten years of all these things. i now can turn off the anxiety switch with my mind. But anxiety can do weird stuff with nerves. and burning is mostly what it does to me. hope that helps a teeny bit anyways.
When you guys burn the worse, stop and think if you are having negative emotions in your mind at the same time. I have been noticing that when i burn, i am thinking bad, neg thoughts about my vag. Like why did this happen? will it ever go away? and if i think about it could be an infection, it burns really bad. weird stuff. weird! cindy

Well update on my feet, it's another bout of plantar fasciitis not nerve pain. I've been treating it as i did before with massage, heat and orthotics and it's already improved and doesn't feel like burning anymore. It could be mechanically connected though as I flatten my arches when I walk it translates postural problems up to the hip and pelvis so I suspect that's the link for me.