Foot pain, I would say is normal for many MS suffers.

My neuro did prescribe steroids when I was first dx, but now I avoid them, choosing to battle on. Well fitting , enclosed shoes are a big help and I take a couple of mild pain killers if it gets bad. I also took an anti inflammatory for awhile but didn't experience any improvement.

What does your neuro hope to find with the mri? As far as I know, the foot pain is caused by damaged nerves and until someone finds a way to repair the mylin I can't see that my feet will improve.

My foot pain has lessened quite a bit since the beginning - it's been nearly six years - but I am now quite clumsy on my feet. I walk every day, because I still can!

All the best!

He is looking for inflammation. The foot pain( should say feet) is really bad, it's hard to walk and I get stabbing pains in both feet. I have had steroids before and don't like it but I am willing to try if it helps. I have worn my good tennis shoes that fit good and still have all the pains. Where is your pain ?

I have had such an assortment! overall pain, like you've been on your feet all day x 100; I've had the feeling that all I was walking on was bones; I've had shooting pain in my instep; I've had intense burning pain - without any feeling of heat; I've had itching....

What has helped, apart from the shoes (which I have even worn to bed when nearly crying with pain), but also good foot massage from a professional. I also tried all deep heat type treatments...

I have horrible problems with my feet. At present, I just found out I have a problem with my achilles tendon in my foot.

I was sent to physical therapy (the last place I should have ever been sent as they had me doing a bunch of exercises that set the MS off badly).

I then went to my doctor who prescribed a gel you can rub on the areas that have inflammation in the up to 4X a day.

The name of the gel is VOLTAREN GEL.

I don't know how much it costs but my insurance dinged me $40.00 for a 90-day (5 huge tubes of this stuff) supply of it.

You might ask about this, especially if you need something to take down the inflammation (Voltaren is an NSAID) and good if you don't really care to take a bunch of pills that can sicken the stomach greatly (i.e. iburofen (aka "Motrin",) naproxen and Voltaren (non-generic name for this substance). All of these drugs are anti-inflammatoy drugs that can cause bleeding ulcers, etc. Caution is advised and personally, I would strongly advice CAUTION with these drugs as I have had a horrific reaction to them in the past (hence the gel).

Sadly, these drugs in this particular class (NSIADS) do very little for the horrible pain I have in my feet. :(

I don't have any inflammation on my feet. Doc looking for inflammation on my spine or my brain with an MRI.

You can rub Voltaren Gel on your spine if it has inflammation in it. I'm going to try this myself as my back is one of my major sources of pain.

I'll try just about anything these days!

Best of luck!

I sure get it...down the backs of my legs into my feet. For a long time I couldn't sleep with covers on my feet but with gabapentin at night and DMD's I seem to not notice it so much. I try to avoid steroids if at all possible altho this summer I did take them for neck pain for 1 week tapering. I don't know what an MRI would show about your feet except if you had a Lspine lesion that is compressing something. I did have a neurologist put me on B12 for numbness in my feet at one point. I was on it for a few years and it didn't really make a difference. I do try to walk every other day or daily because I want to keep what I have. I am careful about stumbling though as I feel myself get tired. I walk with a geriatric dog so I can't go to fast! Good luck and Hugs.

I have chronic feet pain every since 2005 Definitely from MS. I Also have chronic pain in my legs and ankles . Nothing helps much , finally am on pretty strong narcotics . I recently discovered compression socks at Wal-Mart . Wow, what a help. These long socks squeeze my feet, ankles and lower legs which helps with pain.

I had a brain and full spine mri yesterday so we will see. Last night I had a leg cramp in my left leg (hurt) and this morning had a bad leg cramp in my right leg (still aching 3 hours later)

OMG

Am I progressing?