razor sharp excrutiating pain in my big toe

[woman68]

what causes pins and needles in my big toe.
the pain is excrutiating and it's an internal pain. I can wickle my toes, touch my toes, and even walk on my toes without any problem. This pain comes and goes and is very sharp and continues to trigger my big toe. I don't know where this could be coming from.

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. The various causes for a painful and tingling great toe could be a bad pair of shoes, compression of a nerve like by shoes hurting the toe for very long, and due to toe injury, gout due to high uric acid levels, diabetes, inflamed bone on the underside of the toe due to arthritis or a part of the bone hitting a nerve in the big toe, bunions or bumps at the base of the big toe, peripheral neuropathy in diabetes and smokers, and cervical spondylosis causing nerve compression in the back. You need to consult a neurologist who would examine you in detail and conduct various relevant tests including blood tests, MRI spine etc to find the cause and treat it. Take care.

[allmymarbles]

Gout?