Nerve Linkages
Lotsofpain
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In my left foot I have ankle pain and plantar pain, I also have colon problems that cause pain on the left side. When I get a painful spasm in my colon I can definitely feel increased pain in my foot / ankle. Is there a link am i imagining it
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We're not doctors or anatomists so we can't tell you what's happening. An explanation could be that the colon spasm makes you more aware of the other pain. I find that when one of my rarely painful joints has a bite at me it seems that everything else seems to twinge more. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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Lotsofpain.
Oddly enough this happens to me too. Mine started after my back 'went' good and proper many years ago. I assumed (though I never asked anyone) It was the nerve I saw on my MRI which rain from my back to my foot via my bowels (sorry to be so graphic :oops: )
As I said I never asked the orthopod, but wish I had. If you see anyone about your colon, perhaps you could ask them. I am very interested
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I don't think you're imagining it at all Lotsofpain
The meridians running throughout the body send signals and no, I'm not some sort of nutcase
My OH and I were guardians to a number of Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese students and they and their parents taught us Acupressure techniques. I know for example that if I press my left foot just below the ankle, fairly sharply, I can get a twinge running up, almost like a faint electric shock, towards the descending colon. This certainly helps if "my innards are twisted"
I won't go on otherwise peeps'll think I've "lost it" However to me what you describe is a perfectly natural phenomenon.
Do see your Doctor though, it's the most necessary course to check everything out.0 -
cherrybim do tell more or where can I find out more0
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There's quite a bit about acupressure techniques on the net Lotsofpain, including books on the subject. There's one available from A****n for example.
The book I have was published in 1978 and I would think it's probably out of print by now Leafing through it there's one 'exercise' for eye pains/flickering of the eyes againgst which is written "Cherry you do this every day, promise, love Yi Ling" (Taiwanese) I do when I remember I also have a hand drawn copy of the same diagram by Sayaka (Japanese) and she uses this particular technique as a beauty treatment before she makes up her eyes, so I think it's got many uses There are, of course, more 'serious' applications ranging from asthma through to rheumatic pain and beyond.0
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