Fibromyalgia Support Group

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Bon67 04/02/2013

Hi everyone, I know this will sound crazy but I just had to see if anyone has had a similar experience. Sometimes I feel like I stepped on glass in my heel or have a splinter and every time I feel this, I look at my foot and there is a small dog hair that I stepped on and it was sticking out of my heel, I pull it out and the pain goes away. Is this even possible to have a piece of hair in your foot that feels like glass? I hope you don't think I'm crazy lol, I just have to know opinion's on this. (((hugs)))

PeaceN2You 04/02/2013

Are you sure it's dog hair and not fiberglass?

Bon67 04/02/2013

Positive, I have two pugs and I made sure it was from them, this has happened several times, it is the weirdest thing, lol

Maika 04/02/2013

the dog hair might just be a fluke. I have a dog so finding dog hair on my feet is usually gauranted. You might have plantar fastitis (not sure of the spelling).
Lifting up your foot to check might releive the pressure. I get foot pain that feels like something is gouging in me and it is just the plantar factitis aggrevating my heel

Bon67 04/02/2013

Maika, I do have plantar fasciitis, my feet kill me all the time, but this only happens once in a while and when I look down, sure enough I have a piece of dog hair sticking out of my heel, my ex use to think I was crazy until I showed him. How and the hell can my heel be so sensitive? lmao, so strange.

LisaLoo2 04/03/2013

My feet can be very sensitive too. Sometimes, especially if I've gone for a walk, I'll swear I have a blister on my foot or feel like I have a cut where those lifelines on your feet are, then I'll look at my foot and it will look fine. Part of the hypersensitivity.

OutsideSmile 04/03/2013

LOL I'm sure no one here thinks you're crazy, although many of us do begin sentences that way to drs, family, even here. :o) I have episodes when I feel like I certainly must have stepped on a little bitty piece of glass. I can never see anything there, but it feels that way. Not sure about the dog hair situation.
It does sound unusual (not crazy) but I'm sure it's not impossible!

LeoX3 04/03/2013

I have had this happen with a cat whisker.
It was a WTF moment!
I am barefoot a lot, though, and have many tiny cracks in the skin on my feet so it didn't surprise me once I gave it a bit of thought. I just moisturize my feet now!

Bon67 04/03/2013

Thanks everyone, yeah, I'm not crazy lol..It really is a WTF moment lmao.

deleted_user 04/03/2013

You're not crazy! I just this week had to check my feet several times because it felt like I'd Stepped on a nail and I looked at my foot and there's nothing and it kinda goes away and then comes back it's weird I don't know either

deleted_user 04/03/2013

you are not crazy..sometimes when I feel like I'm bruised in my legs and feet when I am not....I could swear that there i a wound there na na nothingggg....In my whole life I have never experienced the pain that this syndome causes

deleted_user 04/03/2013

You are not crazy at all, I have multiple issues with my feet plantar fasciitis being one of them. I DID have a hair in my foot.

Many years ago I felt like I had a sliver in my foot and what did I find? A dog hair about 1 1/2" long with only enough out of the skin to pull out by tweezers, it had slid just under skin. I had my Duke then who was a mix of German Shepard and Lab mix, and that was not the last time.....his hair was really course. So you gave me a memory and a laugh.

Bon67 04/03/2013

Oh Lala, That is awesome! Thank you for sharing that. That is exactly what happens to me. lol

deleted_user 04/03/2013

I have had the exact same thing happen too me! I have four dogs and I don't have a clue how those little soft hairs can,feel like a glass shard, but it CAN and DOES happen!

Bon67 04/03/2013

Thanks Linda! :) (((hugs)))

bluesun 04/03/2013

Oh trust me... I have to walk in my slippers all the time because my feet are sensitive to everything it touches. Any hard surface, pebble, crack in the floor, crumb, uneven flooring, feels like torture to me. Even the soft sand at the beach feels like shards of glass depending on my level of sensitivity that day. I have to wear wet socks when I swim / hang out at the beach. They are socks made out of wet suit material.

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