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Suggest Treatment For Pain In Feet And Numbness In Finger Tips
Question: I went back to work two months ago after 9 years retirement. I have a old back injury of the SI joint plus your 50 year old back problems with deteriorating and bulging disks. I am having a lot of trouble with pain in my feet and numbness of my finger tips and left arm and hand. I have a lot of severe XXXXXXX horses at the end of the day. I am doing exercise that I learned in physical therapy and using that heating pad to reduce swelling. Also I am taking a over the counter anti -inflammatory. My job is restaurant work requiring walking,standing turning,lifting,bending etc. I am working 50 hours a week.Do I need a cortizone shot, Pain meds? Who do I see ? Thank you XXXXXXX
Brief Answer:
Need to rule out a few conditions relating to the bone and its abnormalitie
Detailed Answer:
Hello ma'am and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. With your current symptoms, your age, your sex and the amount of physical workload you have on a daily basis, I would really like you to meet either a general physician or an orthopaedic doctor to help rule out conditions like osteoporosis, arthritis, rheumatic arthritis, spondylosis, etc.
I would also like to add that conditions like vitamin D deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, etc; should also be ruled due to your symptoms of numbness in the peripheries, etc.
A cortisone shot will help certainly help to reduce pain and swelling, but it is like treating a person who has a thorn stuck in his finger with pain management medications. The pain will be there as long as the thorn is stuck in his finger, remove the thorn and the pain shall subside. I hope you get what I am trying to explain. Get yourself diagnosed and treat the condition causing these symptoms, and the symptoms shall subside.
I hope you find my response both helpful and informative. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I am always here to help.
Best wishes.
Need to rule out a few conditions relating to the bone and its abnormalitie
Detailed Answer:
Hello ma'am and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. With your current symptoms, your age, your sex and the amount of physical workload you have on a daily basis, I would really like you to meet either a general physician or an orthopaedic doctor to help rule out conditions like osteoporosis, arthritis, rheumatic arthritis, spondylosis, etc.
I would also like to add that conditions like vitamin D deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, etc; should also be ruled due to your symptoms of numbness in the peripheries, etc.
A cortisone shot will help certainly help to reduce pain and swelling, but it is like treating a person who has a thorn stuck in his finger with pain management medications. The pain will be there as long as the thorn is stuck in his finger, remove the thorn and the pain shall subside. I hope you get what I am trying to explain. Get yourself diagnosed and treat the condition causing these symptoms, and the symptoms shall subside.
I hope you find my response both helpful and informative. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I am always here to help.
Best wishes.
Note: For further queries, consult a joint and bone specialist, an Orthopaedic surgeon. Book a Call now.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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