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I went for a foot massage last week and the masser worked very hard (I mean Hard!) on the arches. The swelling has gone and I am now able to use the treadmill for 40 minutes without pain or swelling.

My question is. Does anybody else have any experience with massage (good or bad), Does massage usualy work.

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I avoid massage because I cannot stand to have anyone touch, much less massage, the bottoms of my feet. The podiatrist prescribed completely flat, but well padded insoles for my shoes.

My ledderhose nodules are usually not painful unless they get irritated by arch supports or another part of the shoe rubbing on them. Massage would be intolerable for me.

No one has mentioned the use of a cream for Ledderhosen and it works great. No more pain. I took pain pills and they didn't even touch them I have six nodules on one foot and 4 on the other (both along the instep in a line) from wearing the wrong orthodtic and the wrong shoes. But like most here I am from N. European ancestry.

So the cream....it is mixed with verapamil and lidoderm and applied thinly twice a day and the verapamil shrinks the nudules (slowly and the lido takes the pain away immediately because it numbs the area). I can now walk, practic T'ai Ji and unless it is giong to hail, sleet, snow or a tornado or a hurricane is brewing I am pain free. But the pain I do feel under these weather conditions is still nothing like what I went through for a couple of years before I found a good podiatrists who first tried 2 injections (which did nothing) and then he mentioned the cream.

It is not cheap but it lasts for a long time, they do not realize how long a jar of it will last.

The cream is also mentioned on the web for dups pain.

loonsong

Edited 10/23/10 06:57

I took Newman's advice and bought some Nike Free's and they really are very good. They're light-weight and don't have an in-step built into them so you really feel free in them.

My problem with pain is I'm experiencing a lot of burning and nerve pain.

The burning started in patches when the pain set in a few weeks ago (until then my nodules although fairly large were symptom free) and has now progressed to all over my feet including my toes - daily. Another scary thing is that I perceived a little burning in my hands yesterday and so far I haven't had any signs of DD...

I did find a research paper that mentioned inflamation and vasodilation (blood vessel dilation) that would heat the area by increasing the blood flow, but I've also read on this forum that some develop Reynaud's disease, a different condition where the blood vessels die off, creating a perception of burning. Is this a coincidence or are the diseases related?

I also get nerve pain in the ball of my feet and sometimes in the soles. Has anyone discovered a medication that knocks out the burning or the nerve pain? I took neurofen (ibuprofen) last night and it seemed to ease the burning but didn't touch the nerve pain. The nerve pain is really the worst - I can cope with the pain in the nodules at this point and the burning, but the nerve pain prevents sleep.

Thanks
Di

Hi David
Thanks, I'm going to see my GP and will look into the Lyrica - did you have any side effects such as drowsiness etc?

Di