Nerve Linkages

Lotsofpain
Lotsofpain Member Posts: 157
edited 22. Feb 2013, 03:01 in Living with Arthritis archive
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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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,912
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • cherrybim
    cherrybim Member Posts: 334
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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.
  • Lotsofpain
    Lotsofpain Member Posts: 157
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    cherrybim do tell more or where can I find out more
  • cherrybim
    cherrybim Member Posts: 334
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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 :lol: 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.