This past Sunday, the "feels like my sock is wet, but it's not" type neuropathy has randomly returned, but this time it's in my left pinky toe.
As a reminder, this previously happened in the last 2 toes on my right foot, and all my medical providers figured it was related to body positioning as I recovered from surgery. Eventually I stumbled upon leg stretches that helped, and the "wet sock" neuropathy went away, but a "subdued sensation" feeling remains to this day, very similar to the neuropathy I have in the first 3 fingers of both hands, which I've had since chemo.
This time, I haven't had any recent surgery to be recovering from, so we can't blame it on that.
The only thing I can think of that might be noteworthy is that recently I had a full week that was very stressful and tiring - both physically and mentally. Without getting into the details, suffice to say it was go-go-go with one thing after another. Once I finally had a chance to catch my breath, I was bewildered at how continually tired I was for the whole following week; I was sleeping a lot but kept feeling like I hadn't slept enough.
It wasn't until last weekend that I seemed to have crossed a hurdle and my energy level felt back to baseline, only it coincided with the start of that "wet sock" feeling. Maybe all that sleeping pinched a nerve somewhere?!
Anyway, by Monday I remembered that leg stretches seemed to help the last time I had this weird toe neuropathy, so I've started doing them again. I think they're helping because the "wet sock" feeling is mostly gone, but the "subdued sensation" feeling is still there. Very depressing to think I may end up with yet another site of persistent, potentially chronic neuropathy.
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