Pain After Pain, Moving Around The Body!

[annieigma]

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.
Annie

[annieigma]

Forgot to adde that I felt a small lump in my arm muscle yesterday, too painful to touch.

[Sqad]

\\\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?

[annieigma]

Hi Sqad,
Pretty pink, hard to the touch and swollen.

[ladyalex]

Gout?

[Sqad]

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.

[ladyalex]

Lucky guess....

[Retrochic]

Or she could have a septic toe and the other symptoms are that of septicemia..

[Sqad]

Retro......naaah!

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

.....naaaah!

[anneasquith]

or................... you could return to the gp ?

[annieigma]

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.

[ladyalex]

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.

[annieigma]

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?

[Peter Pedant]

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

[Tilly2]

Ladyalex deserves best answer. I hope you find some improvement soon.

[Sqad]

That was too easy.

Ladyalex deserves best answer, not for the answer given, but for her first answer........yeeeeeh!

[Peter Pedant]

blimey I thought lady alex' SECOND answer was applied to you Sqad

[Sqad]

PP...LOL

[ladyalex]

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.
:-))

[annieigma]

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?

[annieigma]

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?