Friends, you may have trouble believing what I am about to share with you but I am at a loss and am looking for someone who may have the same affliction, know someone who has the same affliction, or has some ideas about it. This may be a little long:
For several years now, always in March or April I suffer an affliction with my feet where it begins, on either foot, with a tender, achy, pain, never in the same spot. It then becomes more painful, will eventually swell, and will move around on the foot. It may begin on the bottom, or it may begin on the top of the foot, or in the ankles, sides, etc. As it moves, that area will become more painful and swelling, and the previous area will subside. This sounds crazy but it really does happen this way.
Sometimes I get this affliction in one foot and it may last a couple of weeks before it goes away. Sometimes it will move to the other foot and do the same thing. I've been dealing with this for about 8-9 years now. Last year it was both feet and I was afflicted for over a month. The year before it was only one foot and it lasted a couple of weeks.
This year, it started with tenderness on the bottom side of my left foot and has now spread to the ankle with some lingering tenderness where it began.
I will not go to a medical doctor because I have learned through experience that Doctors have no idea what is happening. One doctor told me I had severe arthritis and multiple bone spurs. I don't believe this because it only happens in March or April and I have no problem for the rest of the year once it goes away. It is very painful and I don't get alot of sleep.
For those who are thinking gout...it is not!
Each year I watch what I eat trying to take note of any changes. This year I stopped eating fish from December till now and I got all the way to April 22 before it struck. I have no idea how long it will last and if it will go to the other foot. But I know that in just a few days I will not be able to walk, maybe sooner.
I've only been actively involved in natural healing for about 5 years and I fear that I am reaping the results of over 50 years of bad habits but, since I don't know what this affliction is, I don't really know how to fix it. I think it may be some kind of arthritic condition but one that only afflicts for a short time and then leaves. I will be avoiding protein consumption and I will be eating mostly vegetables until this goes away but other than that and taking some natural anti- inflammatories, I just will have to ride it out.
I will be following my own advise regarding green leafy vegetables and other complex carbohydrates. I know that protein agravates arthritis, though this may not be arthritis at all (in the commonly understood joint inflammation sense).
Any help out there?

Naturalman you had a trapped emotion of grief trapped in your foot.
I released it and it should be ok now. Let me know.

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Many afflictions change with the seasons. This has been reported in old medical literature for ages. Modern docs like to ignore it and call things psychosomatic.... in other words they think you are nuts jsut because they can't figure how to deal with it.

I had a blistering disease that would cover like chicken poxs that only came in Jan and Feb. Homeopathy cured it. My homeopath came to think I had chronic Poison Oak due to my history, and she had seen similar presentations in other people who had been into posion oak and ivy too much.

If it were me I would do a few weeks of MMS. Some arthritic conditions are directly related to microbes and mms has helped some people with arthritis.

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There are two tick borne Lyme co-infections that can produce those symptoms. One is Bartonella and the other is Babesia. If either of these is suspected, then you have to wonder about Lyme Disease also.

I am sure there are many other possibilities, but these are not uncommon.

Dan

Thanks for all of the input. Yes, I still have it and getting more inflamed as the day goes by. I will be putting an ice pack on it shortly.
I don't have heel spurs, though I did have one years ago. Again, this happens every year but only in March or April. It will last until it has run its course and then no more problem of any kind. Spurs don't appear in March and April and then leave for the rest of the year (I think).
Does anyone know of anything that could appear as a bone spur but not be a bone spur?
I am a fairly healthy man at 63 years and, because I live in the country, have horses, do outside work etc. I think I'm fairly active. I have to wear high top shoes, laced tightly because when I was younger I wore mostly western boots and twisted my ankles so many times they are weak. I'm sure this is a contributing factor but that does not explain why the pain would start away from the ankle, though it always leads to the ankle.
I am pretty well known in my area and I think most people will tell you I am not NUTS! I also don't believe I have any trapped emotions hung up in my feet. Neither do I think Lyme disease would only be manifested in March or April.
Don't give up on me though I know there are brighter days ahead!

Hi Naturalman,

I have self-diagnosed Plantar Fasciitis, and it can swell when irritated, although it's pretty much under control with good quality shoes. I massage with Magnesium Oil when it's bad, and take MSM to reduce pain resulting from the inflammation. Pain is usually in the heel, or section on bottom of foot between the heel and the ball.

My other foot get a small lump in the same area when irritated by very long walks or other activities. Neither of these two things have been out of control where it really slows me down.

The weird thing you say is it's only in springtime. Could this be the time of year when you're pushing yourself doing additional chores and projects? That's all I can think of. Some of us in springtime are out planting, mowing, etc.
Another strange thing is you say it moves arund the foot, mine is always in the same area and doesn't travel.

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If it is Lyme, and you take MMS, you will know in a hurry. You will have the worst flu like symptoms ever.

It is not real consistent with Lyme, but some people, particularly males, do not exhibit typical symptoms until some trauma, like a bad injury. There is a seasonal flare up in the spring, but I would think you would have some other symptoms as well.

The seasonal aspect could indicate a pathogen of some kind. With increased sun exposure your immune system ramps up and possibly attacks whatever is living in your feet.

Since you work with animals, is there any animal disease that can cross to humans that could explain it?

Dan

As I stated before I've been trying to figure this out for years. I know the hard thing to understand (and believe) is that it really does move around the foot. Today, it is mostly in the ankle (but it is much better than yesterday).
Someone else mentioned that I may be more active and that is what is bringing on the affliction. I was talking this over with a friend who knows me well and neither of us thinks this is true because I do alot in the winter as well. Though there may be a type of activity..I just don't know. But why would the pain and swelling move around the foot? I've had it in the big toe and someone will say, "It must be gout" but I've been tested for gout...no gout!
I'm not closed minded about the lyme, I'm just trying to figure it out. I can say this, it usually lasts two weeks or more per foot and I'm already feeling much better today. I started taking dandelion, burdock, and yellow dock root because I got to thinking, how can whatever this is travel from one foot to the other foot? By the blood! So I'm attempting to address that. Keep it coming folks I'll listen to anything!

Those herbs you are taking are strong detox herbs and have a rep for doing in some microbes, they are anti-microbial in nature most likely through their significant ability to support the immune system.

In my studies in ozone therapy, Rife and so much more I am convinced that most, if not all inflammation processes are instigated by some kind of microbe. Rifes work proves that some of these most serious microbes modern sciene still can not see but have been seen through very unconventional microscopes that the general scientific world has not had access to. Doctors who work in alternative medicine who have the reputation for curing arthritis state that most cases have to do with a microbe. Although most of their treatments do not address microbes directly they boost the immune system as well as calm inflammation. Most of these treatments "hold" for a time. Unless the underlying cause is addressed it will return. If the immune system is boosted enough, proper digestion restored etc then the cure can be permanent as one's system will erradicate the pathogen. Aside from MMS, Rife, Ozone and Colloidal Silver have cured cases of arthritis.

One day you may be inclined to take a very direct target approach. It is worth ruling out though a defined protocol that is long enough to stop most pathogens.

If it is lyme you will know in short order. There will be a hard herx, you may feel better for a while then the dieseas will return. There are extra things that need be done to destroy lyme other than just an antimicrobial attack. The cyst form of the disease presents problems.

Now what exactly is arthritis... it is the inflammation of tissue, generally of the joint but also of soft tissues as in RA, which may or may not include a joint. They can point to nutritional deficiency in some of this but just changing the nutrition does not cure it, as in MSM, glucosamine and herbs etc. When the supplements stop the conditon returns, sometimes not for a while, but it most always returns..

During one of these episodes have you every been checked for RA?

If it returns in my opinion, because there is a microbe that has endured.

I wonder if its moving around has anything to do with the movement of lymph.

Are you serious?

When someone burns theur hand in scalding hot water the reddness and sweeling is a sign of inflammation. No bug there, right?

When someone sprains their ankle and it swells up like a bowling ball is it due to a microbe?

Homocysteine causes a great deal of inflammation. I don't think that is a bug, but hey give these new age 'virologists' a ring and they will invent 'homocysteine-is' and find a non specific protien and declare a new virus is found. Then it is antivirals for everyone!


And we haven't even touched on the inflammation derived from excessive PUFA's and production of bad eicasanoids and Arachidonic Acid.