Shin pain

[OldFatChick]

Right now my right shin feels as if it's been whacked with a baseball bat. And if i touch the skin it feels almost like a sunburn, very tender to the touch.  I haven't hit it on anything, not even a bump.  Just sitting and watching tv and OW! I have Sjogren's, hypothyroidism and undifferentiated connective tissue disease, and I have no idea which of them is responsible, I just know it hurts.

[MrsAristotle]

I am undiagnosed. At the moment it has always been a toss up between MS Lupus or some other soft tissue disease although I have just been told I have now Anti soft muscle autoantibody positives in my blood so its looking like either Lupus or soft tissue.

Anyway.  Let me tell you about shin pain....................I had this last year it drove me to distraction. The pain was just all consuming (I think i did put a post on MS forum about it at the time). I could liken it to someone with a sharp bread knife sticking it into my bone and twisting the knife about a bit. It was agony. It came and went for about 3 weeks in the end i had to get the doctor out because at the time I was in one of my weird flares and the pain was just not responding to any meds.

She said it was a form of neuralgia, nerve problem. It seems that where a shingle will go so too we get the pain...as it is on a nerve path.........

It will go. I put cold compress on it to try and confuse it lol which seemed to help a bit......

I absolutely empathise with you over this, no one can know the pain of a shin pain........big hugs maria.

[karajo]

I asked my chiroprator about shin pain.  He thought a good arch support might help.  

Have you tried strethching the calf muscle?  You know pulling you toes up toward the shin.  I would also ask them to check you vit D level.  

I also have the tingly, prickly feeling in my feet and fingers.  I just thought it was fibromyalgia related.  But I also have Raynauds.  

I think you are doing well too.  

What medicines are you on?  I can't remember.  

Praying for ya kid, ~Kara

[OldFatChick]

No, not on vitamin D.  I don't think they have tested that.  I'm pretty sure that in addition to the UCTD, Sjogren's and hypothyroidism,  I believe I have peripheral neuropathy because my toes and fingertips burn like they've been dipped in acid, (rheumy mentioned that at one visit, but didn't elaborate) and Reynaud's (was told I had this when I went for my lip biopsy for Sjogren's) because when I handle anything cold my fingers turn red, then white and it hurts all the way up to my shoulder until I put my hands in hot water to warm them up. So now I am up to 5 in my auto-immune disease count.  So, considering the fact that I work full time and haven't taken to bed permanently, I think I'm doing pretty well, lol.

[karajo]

I also have this pain.  I know it is very painful.  I always contributed it to low vit. D.  Are you on prescription D?

[OldFatChick]

The sun-burned feeling and tenderness have been going on for some time, mostly on legs, I always  thought it could be shingles, but there is never a rash.  

[poetin]

I've had the same thing on and off for years. My best guess it's hypothyroidism-related.