Guest guest Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Hi Steve Yes this is possible. Low testosterone levels can affect many other biochemical levels in the body. For example glucose and hence glucose tolerance & Type ll Diabetes. The Kidney and Adrenal glands can also be affected. Hormone imbalance can also cause arthritis plus other inflammatory disease. Ask your GP to test serum Uric acid. This indicates various states and includes Gout which can affect your ankle and foot / toes. Hope this helps. _________________________________________ Randle _________________________________________ foot pains > > > Hi there, > > Just a quick question, I know some people have joint pains but does > anybody have painfull feet, around the ankles? > > I have an intermittent pain sometimes foot is fine and others its really > difficult to weight bare but only for a few steps then seem to disappear. > > Steve > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Hi Steve, I also have substantial discomfort/pain in my heels. I feels like a stone bruise in the center of both heels when standing up after being seated for a perions of time. I hobble for a few steps and the pain goes away. If you find a treatment, please let us know. I have a appointmet with my endro tomorrow afternoon and I'll ask him what the relationship with hypogonadism and painful heels may be. Randy > From: " steve5452 " <steve5452@n...> > < > > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:08 PM > Subject: foot pains > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > Just a quick question, I know some people have joint pains but does > > anybody have painfull feet, around the ankles? > > > > I have an intermittent pain sometimes foot is fine and others its really > > difficult to weight bare but only for a few steps then seem to disappear. > > > > Steve > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 I get the same thing in my arches. Feels like I'm stepping on a rock but I only get them when I'm lying down. > > Hi Steve, > > I also have substantial discomfort/pain in my heels. I feels like a > stone bruise in the center of both heels when standing up after being > seated for a perions of time. I hobble for a few steps and the pain > goes away. If you find a treatment, please let us know. I have a > appointmet with my endro tomorrow afternoon and I'll ask him what the > relationship with hypogonadism and painful heels may be. > > Randy > > From: " steve5452 " <steve5452@n...> > > < > > > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:08 PM > > Subject: foot pains > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > Just a quick question, I know some people have joint pains but > does > > > anybody have painfull feet, around the ankles? > > > > > > I have an intermittent pain sometimes foot is fine and others its > really > > > difficult to weight bare but only for a few steps then seem to > disappear. > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Hi Randy I wondered, without seeing your feet, if poor circulation and/or dropped arches might be a problem. Have you seen a Chiropodist? On the 2 main occasions my hormones have become deficient for a period of time, the hairs on my lower calfs have been lost. When my hormones are rebalanced this hair regrows. I spoke with an Orthopaedic surgeon specialising in feet and he said this was poor circulation. _________________________________________ Randle _________________________________________ foot pains >> > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > Hi there, >> > > >> > > Just a quick question, I know some people have joint pains but >> does >> > > anybody have painfull feet, around the ankles? >> > > >> > > I have an intermittent pain sometimes foot is fine and others its >> really >> > > difficult to weight bare but only for a few steps then seem to >> disappear. >> > > >> > > Steve >> > > >> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Hi : I haven't consulted about my foot/heel pain. I goes away after a few hobbles and a little suffeling. (I've told my wife that I know why old men shuffle around... it's not that they can't raise their feet... it just hurts to much to step hard). I just turned 43 and all the other problems with low " T " make foot pai, (sorry for the punn) " a walk in the park. " Until I read the earlier post, I didn't make a connection with this consition and hypogonadism. I ran track in high school and have been very active outdoors until the onset of hypo about 4 years ago. I thought my foot pain was just paying my midle age dues for the punishment my feet and legs took as a teenager. Anyway, my circulation and arches are great. I continue to be amazed with the wide range of health problems and issuse that appear to be related to low testosterone and HRT. Besides possible depression and ED, my doctors have never advised me of the additional problems and issues that can be associated with our condition. This group fills the information void. I'm not a " computer wizzard " but it would be great if we began to compile a list of low T associated health issuse and problems. I read a post in the archives months ago from a member who had red flushing of the throat and face at times... I have the same condition at time. I've been asked of I had a sun burn. There may be numerous associated health conditions that are related but we don't make the connection. Be well, Randy > Hi Randy > > I wondered, without seeing your feet, if poor circulation and/or dropped > arches might be a problem. Have you seen a Chiropodist? > > On the 2 main occasions my hormones have become deficient for a period of > time, the hairs on my lower calfs have been lost. When my hormones are > rebalanced this hair regrows. I spoke with an Orthopaedic surgeon > specialising in feet and he said this was poor circulation. > > > _________________________________________ > Randle > _________________________________________ > Re: foot pains > > > > > > > > I get the same thing in my arches. Feels like I'm stepping on a rock > > but I only get them when I'm lying down. > > --- In , " randy_mccaffrey " > > <randy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:43:59 -0000, you wrote: >Hi : > >I haven't consulted about my foot/heel pain. I goes away after a >few hobbles and a little suffeling. (I've told my wife that I know >why old men shuffle around... it's not that they can't raise their >feet... it just hurts to much to step hard). I just turned 43 and >all the other problems with low " T " make foot pai, (sorry for the >punn) " a walk in the park. " Until I read the earlier post, I didn't >make a connection with this consition and hypogonadism. I have a very similar thing. I've never thought to connect it with hypo-G. My ankles frequently " go out " . One or the other will suddenly feel unable to carry weight. I struggle to position my stride to take the weight off the outer ankle and then usually in say 10 strides it clears. I've also had heel pains where the achilles tendon feels " bruised " or the heel bone tender. As I think of it these problems have not been as prevalent or noticeable as they were before TRT. I don't tend to think its related to the hypo-G but who knows it may be a function of low bone density or screwed up calcium metabolism that comes with low T/low E. I do find when I over do arimidex or DIMM I get a lot of pain in my feet in the weight bearing areas. It passes when I quit and get E2 levels back up. (Though I'm wondering with DIMM if its E2 or other E forms that are changed more. I've not been able yet to get blood work with just DIMM.) - - - - Just another albino black sheep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 I goes away after a few hobbles and a little suffeling. (I've told my wife that I know why old men shuffle around... it's not that they can't raise their feet... it just hurts to much to step hard).-- LOL that's too funny! (It took me a half century of living to figure out the reason we older women wear big gaudy jewelry. Because we can't SEE those tiny little earrings we wore at age twenty! What's the point of wearing jewelry if you can't see it when you look in the mirror!?) I wrecked my feet from years of working on cement floors, and the final straw was nerve damage resulting from a pinched sciatic nerve which in turn resulted from a slipped disk. All the testosterone in the world won't rejuvenate my feet, and your foot pain could well be similar irreversable payback for running or other bone damaging sports you played as a teenager. Comfortable oversized shoes and workman's molded foam innersoles (the expensive heavy-duty kind) are lifesavers. I used to wear womens size 6 1/2 shoes and now buy mens 7 or 8 in wide widths. Also if gout is a factor, avoid alcohol and drink a ton of water to flush out uric acid and keep crystals from forming in your feet/toes. (I've had bouts of this too and it can feel like your toe is literally broken. Fortunately a few hours of rehydration via vast amounts of water can restore you to normal.) But a testosterone deficit will worsen foot ills whatever they are. The fact I can my now outwalk my 6+ foot long-legged hubby on my deformed feet is testimony to the ravages of either low T or insulin- resistence or both on his health. -----I continue to be amazed with the wide range of health problems and issuse that appear to be related to low testosterone and HRT. Besides possible depression and ED, my doctors have never advised me of the additional problems and issues that can be associated with our condition. This group fills the information void.---- To realize the depths of the information void, you should read the transcripts from the FDA advisory committee's anti-intrinsa fest. Not only did physicians utterly disavow any health benefits of the testosterone patch for women (including its proven benefits to libido) but they testified for days about TRT's danger to women's health, basing their assertions on a flawed study of HRT in which no testosterone was given to a single test subject. The following months saw FDA approve the restoration of vioxx and silicone breast implants to the market despite the KNOWN health hazards of both and complete lack of health benefit of any kind in the latter. (Yes I hate the FDA and their minions of clueless doctors, if you didn't guess!) At least your doc is aware of a few of symptoms of low T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 <randy_mccaffrey@y...> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > I also have substantial discomfort/pain in my heels. I feels like a > stone bruise in the center of both heels when standing up after being I have on occasion had heel spurs, which feel just like walking with a small pebble in your shoe. I have had surgery once to remove one, and other less invasive procedures. The easiest is to get a pair of Dr Scholl's heel pads to go in the heels. Get the ones with the removeable center, that are mad for heel spur relief. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 > > > it would be great if we began to > compile a list of low T associated health issuse and problems.> > Randy > This is something I have been looking for too. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 > .. My ankles frequently " go out " . One or the other will suddenly > feel unable to carry weight. I struggle to position my stride to take > the weight off the outer ankle and then usually in say 10 strides it > clears. > This is EXACTLY the same as myself. I have had physio appointments but as it wasnt huring they found nothing wrong [( Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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