Itchy achy toes!

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Hi all,

Has anyone ever had similar? A few of my toes recently started feeling quite achy and swollen. I've been doing a fair bit of running recently so thought it might be that, but after about a week or so of rest they're still very painful to the touch and now swollen and itchy too. Google is telling me chilblains? Just seems a very strange combination of the joints feeling bruised but also driving me to distraction with the itching! Thank you!

you have chilblains
there are creams but I'm not sure how useful they are
the only cure is to never, ever let your feet get cold- warm socks, warm slippers and shoes with nice thick soles. You need to keep this up until your toes feel normal again.

Could it be Covid Toe? Not a joke.

It's worth a Google.

In April I felt mildly under the weather for a day or two... nothing worth writing home about. But then I got the most outrageous chilblains, across all my toes.

I thought it was a bit weird, it was war, I was home, the heating is set to 22' - I couldn't understand it.

After three weeks, I had a telephone doctor's appointment because I was worried that my red, sore, achy toes were down to poor circulation. She took a look ay toe-photos (toe-toes?) and said she'd seen a lot of them recently, and they were common as a late symptom in people who had mild Covid.

When antibody tests became available I took one, and I had Covid antibodies (obv. I can't trace the antibodies back to April, but I presume that's when I had it).

BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52493574

It was 'warm' not 'war' - though it was mildly unpleasant.

I think covid toes too

'Don't break my toes, me itchy achey toes..'

Was that just me?

*my

Toe-toes brilliant.

Thanks, all! Sounds like my WFH uniform of bare hippy feet might now be biting me on the arse so itchy I can't sleep right now. Achy breaky itchy toes.

Covid toes is a really interesting prospect! I think the bare feet on cold floor is perhaps a bit more likely for me, but it's interesting that so many doctors around the world have picked up on an increase in that type of skin irritation.

DP and I had Covid symptoms back at the very end of January/start of Feb (commuting in a swamp of people snotting and wheezing each day - I wouldn't be surprised) but I guess we'll never know now if we actually had it.

OMG bare feet on a cold floor I am getting chilblains just reading that.

I'd go along with chilblains too. DH gets them nearly every year, but more the achiness than the itching. Warming cold feet up too quickly makes them worse.

Foot specialist here..

You don’t have covid toes for sure. You do look like you have chilblains though. Get some Snowfire, that really helps.

I have the same thing! 6 months pregnant and I think a week ago my toes of the right foot got itchy and a bit swollen and red.... worst by night ... almost nothing during the day... and only the toes, mainly right foot... nothing else gets swollen ... could it be edema? Didn’t have this for the first child.... did you have a covid test?

Chilblains. Chilblains. Chilblains.