Diagnosed with neuroma. DAE's toes turn purple?
I was recently diagnosed via ultrasound with a neuroma between my second and third toe. While I wait for treatment, I've started wearing correct toes + barefoot shoes, which led to an immediate dimunition of pain. Yay!
What the correct toes haven't totally helped are the occasional episodes in which my second and third toes go turn dark red, sometimes almost purple. They seem to feel colder too at those times.
I asked the doctor about that and he didn't really have an explanation. When I look up symptoms of a neuroma I find mention of pins and needles but not discoloration.
Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you know why it happens?
(My BMI is normal and glucose and A1C labs are optimal, btw -- just adding this data because I know diabetes is a common cause of poor circulation in toes.)