Thank you Dr. Corenman for such a prompt response and I appreciate your opinion and insight.
Yes, I would definitely say my symptoms could be described as having allodynia. For example, the burning tends to be far greater when I have something on my foot such as a sock or shoe, and the sole of my foot feels the best when nothing is resting on it. I also tend to every so often get a few short “zings” or nerve pulses throughout the sole of my foot when I am shifting position in a chair for example. Massage helps the pain.
This could without a doubt be more of a chronic pain from nerve injury but like you stated and my surgeon also suggested, the chances of some improvement are reasonable enough to warrant decompressing the nerve root. I’m going to schedule to go through with the procedure and will let you know how things turn out for a case such as this.
Once again thank you for the response. If you have any suggestion on what might be best to treat the nerve pain being that it is chronic after decompressing the nerve I’d also appreciate it.
