constant pins and needles feeling in my toe - anyone experienced this?

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It's there all the time feel it more at night guess because that's when I am not doing anything. It has been like this for months and I keep wondering if I should go to the doctor but no other symptoms and so seems petty to take up doctors time.

Please do go to the doctor.

You have me worried now. Why do you say "please"?

could it be a zinc deficiency? This was one of my mums symptoms - go to the doctors to check but it may be as simple as eating more bananas.

Sorry, please don't be alarmed. The please was just there by reflex. I am not a doctor nor any form of medical practitioner and am totally not qualified to discuss any health issues.

The reason I posted is that your symptoms sound vaguely (but only vaguely) similar to those my DH had about 8 years ago, and were the onset of what is now a manageable condition.

So please don't be in any way alarmed because this is totally not my field and I don't know anything about any form of medicine, but do have it checked out.

I am worried about diabetes Quattrocento. (I don't have any other symptoms though.)

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Oh sorry. Well DH has something called a peripheral neuropathy. Pins and needles and numbness/aching in toes. Enormously rare and I would be prepared to bet lunch at the restaurant of your choice that you haven't got it.

Still worth getting it checked out though.

Thank you so much for telling me Quattrocento. I will stop being a coward and make an appointment tomorrow.

Which toe is it?

Big toe left foot why do you ask blinkeandflip?

Do you wear shoes with a shaped footbed, like Birkenstocks? When I first got a pair of Birkenstocks (summer before last) I wore them quite a lot over the summer and after about 2 months I noticed a slight numbness and tingling in my left big toe, which got worse until I had virtually no feeling in my toe. I didn't connect it to the Birkinstocks at first because they weren't uncomfortable to wear but when summer finished and I went back to closed shoes my toe went back to normal (took about 6 weeks). I think the ridge in the footbed was pressing on a nerve.

I still wear them a bit, but if I wear them a lot over the course of a week I can feel the tingle starting up again.

Only because I am at college at the mo doing beauty and related therapies and I volunteered to have reflexology done by a visiting reflexologist doing a demo and he said that the big toe equates to the head (if you go in for this kind of stuff, which I'm not sure I do yet) and asked if I had had pins and needles in my toe (which I had been doing) he then also asked if I had been having headaches WHICH I HAD and to get my head looked at !! So what he was saying was that the toeache was symptomatic of the headache - which of course it might be purely through anatomy alone ie circulation or could be more mystical....

Just another angle anyway!

blinkie no head aches or tooth aches here, interesting though.

Bran, part of me has wondered about shoes, I have been doing more walking than normal but my trainers nor my boots never feel that comfortable and I have wondered if it could be ill-fitting footwear. So thanks for that thought too.

Also, on an anatomy level, pins and needles in the outer big toe can be symptomatic of the stage preceeding the formation of bunions

bunions! Oh no! I grow old I grow old I shall wear my... forgotten the rest.