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annieigma | 16:25 Sun 08th Mar 2015 | Health & Fitness
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Hi All,
Been suffering with severe neck,arm muscle pains. have been taking co-codamol 500/30 and Tramadol at night. ( Tramadol doing nothing). I had a blood test last week, and i phoned for the result and was told " no further action"
Last night the pain was so severe that i was awake most of the night again, and about 3 AM I noticed a pain in my big toe. This morning the pain in the toe and half of the foot and sole is excruciating, can hardly walk. I have taken the co-codamol but that does not seem to help. Question is, do you think the foot problem is related to the neck/shoulder pains?
Thank you.
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Glad your shoulders are better. Hope the GP appointment goes well and you get your toe sorted now. Let us know how you get on, please.
12:19 Mon 09th Mar 2015
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Forgot to adde that I felt a small lump in my arm muscle yesterday, too painful to touch.
\\\Question is, do you think the foot problem is related to the neck/shoulder pains? \\\

Might be...........might not be.

Is you big toe red and hot?
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Hi Sqad,
Pretty pink, hard to the touch and swollen.
Gout?
ladyalex has got it in one.

The foot is not related to your arm and neck pains.

Either see your GP for a blood test (uric acid) OR start taking Ibuprofen 400mgms every 4 hours.
Lucky guess....
Or she could have a septic toe and the other symptoms are that of septicemia..
Retro......naaah!

You mean the signs of septicaemia came on BEFORE the septic toe?

.....naaaah!
or................... you could return to the gp ?
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Thanks for the answers,
Have got an appointment this morning, but very strange thing is that last night my shoulders arms and neck were almost good, I slept quite a bit, being woken by the foot, not the the shoulders ( which had been the case for several months). Foot still looks the same, swollen and pinkish, and almost impossible to walk on because of the pain.
thank you.
Glad your shoulders are better.
Hope the GP appointment goes well and you get your toe sorted now.
Let us know how you get on, please.
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Hi All,
Doctor confirmed sqads diagnosis, gout. been given colchicine 500 mg tablets, 3 a day for a week. if no better, report back. Apart from that, the Doctor didn't really say much more apart from drink lots of fluids. I thought She might have mentioned diet or whether i should rest the foot etc.
Google sites say about avoiding oily fish, and I had started taking 1000mg cod liver oil tablets last week for the arthiritus. Probably nothing to do with the gout?
Retro......naaah! You mean the signs of septicaemia came on BEFORE the septic toe? .....naaaah!

agree Sqad - definitely gout
Septic arthritis is high up on the differential BUT
when I had my first attack of gout in a knee -I thought it was septic -and everyone fell about laughing saying look you would be dead by now
Ladyalex deserves best answer. I hope you find some improvement soon.
That was too easy.

Ladyalex deserves best answer, not for the answer given, but for her first answer........yeeeeeh!
blimey I thought lady alex' SECOND answer was applied to you Sqad
PP...LOL
Glad you have had a diagnosis from your GP and got some medication.
Hope it kicks in soon and you get some relief.

Thank you for 'best answer' and thanks to those who thought I should get best answer.
:-))
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Hi All,
Thanks again for the answers. update is: neck and shoulder pains still the same, cannot sleep for more than an hour, before waking up with pain, then re-siting my body and another hour etc. Toe was x-rayed, and blood test result said that the gout purines were not eveident in the blood, but x-ray showed joints in toe worn out. athirirtis. Doctors remedy was pain killers. Thats about it, but still unable to understand why i have severe pain in the arm muscles, no joint there???? and the elbow joints also extremely painful, have a job to bend my arms, but I accept that that is a joint, but the arm muscles??? any ideas please?
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Hi All,
Thanks again for the answers. update is: neck and shoulder pains still the same, cannot sleep for more than an hour, before waking up with pain, then re-siting my body and another hour etc. Toe was x-rayed, and blood test result said that the gout purines were not eveident in the blood, but x-ray showed joints in toe worn out. athirirtis. Doctors remedy was pain killers. Thats about it, but still unable to understand why i have severe pain in the arm muscles, no joint there???? and the elbow joints also extremely painful, have a job to bend my arms, but I accept that that is a joint, but the arm muscles??? any ideas please?

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