u/knowla123456

Tingling, pain, and swelling in feet. Palms shedding skin. Is any of this serious? Is this neuropathy?

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s about 2-3 years ago. Numerous abscesses, complex fistulas, surgeries and I have 5 draining apparently permanent setons. Until recently I’d been on infliximab. In the past month I’ve been getting increasing tingling and sort of a burning pain inside my feet particularly the padding through my toes. I’m not sure how to describe it, but my toes often feels sort of like they’re not attached or something. It’s generally all equal in both feet and toes. Sometimes a bit of tingling in my hands, but not nearly as much as my feet. I’ve also been having a lot of swelling of my feet sometimes up through my calfs. In the past couple weeks, I’ve noticed skin peeling on the inside of my hands. It’s not painful and it’s not a ton but that’s never happened before. My feet are swollen some before but it’s happening on much more regular basis and the tingling and pain in my feet only became really noticeable about a month ago and now it’s pretty constant.

I was also laid about a month ago. My last infusion was probably two months ago. I was already drowning in medical debt and now have absolutely no medical Insurance.

I’m just trying to ignore all of these symptoms until I have some sort of health insurance. I’ve never had all of these symptoms before and so I’ve never spoken to my doctor about them. I’m not rolling around in pain so it doesn’t feel particularly emergent but I really don’t know.

I would really appreciate any experience, advice, and information you’re willing to share.

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s about 2-3 years ago. Numerous abscesses, complex fistulas, surgeries and I have 5 draining apparently permanent setons. Until recently I’d been on infliximab. In the past month I’ve been getting increasing tingling and sort of a burning pain inside my feet particularly the padding through my toes. I’m not sure how to describe it, but my toes often feels sort of like they’re not attached or something. It’s generally all equal in both feet and toes. Sometimes a bit of tingling in my hands, but not nearly as much as my feet. I’ve also been having a lot of swelling of my feet sometimes up through my calfs. In the past couple weeks, I’ve noticed skin peeling on the inside of my hands. It’s not painful and it’s not a ton but that’s never happened before. My feet are swollen some before but it’s happening on much more regular basis and the tingling and pain in my feet only became really noticeable about a month ago and now it’s pretty constant.

I was also laid about a month ago. My last infusion was probably two months ago. I was already drowning in medical debt and now have absolutely no medical Insurance.

I’m just trying to ignore all of these symptoms until I have some sort of health insurance. I’ve never had all of these symptoms before and so I’ve never spoken to my doctor about them. I’m not rolling around in pain so it doesn’t feel particularly emergent but I really don’t know.

I would really appreciate any experience, advice, and information you’re willing to share.