The Ethiopian Bible

I have had burning feet at night for almost a year. My doctor ran every test available, everything came back normal, and she told me to monitor it. I have been monitoring it from my bathroom floor at 2am for months. I had a fan, an ice pack on the nightstand, feet outside the covers — the whole system. Nothing held through the night. A woman in my perimenopause group mentioned these and explained that the burning is actually a daytime problem not a nighttime one. I ordered the same day. By week 2 the burning started and didn't escalate the way it always escalated. Week 3 I pulled the covers over my feet. I haven't done that in almost a year. The ice pack on my nightstand hasn't moved in 11 days.

7 years of peripheral neuropathy. Been through gabapentin, Lyrica, Pregabalin. Currently on 600mg at night and it takes the edge off but I was still ending up on the couch between 2am and 5am most nights. I noticed years ago that the days I moved more the nights were sometimes slightly less bad but my neurologist said symptoms are variable and left it at that. Found the research behind these insoles at 2am and it finally explained the pattern I had been tracking for years. Ordered that night. Week 2 I slept in the bed through to 5am. Week 3 I started wondering if I could reduce my Gabapentin dose. I haven't changed anything else. Nothing. Just these during the day.

I have had burning feet at night since I was a teenager. Built my whole sleep routine around it. Fan on, feet outside the covers, spray bottle on the nightstand, cold water run at 1am. I had stopped expecting it to change. Googled it a hundred times, always got diabetes results, I'm not diabetic. Found a thread where someone explained the burning is actually building during the day not at night and that everything I was doing at night was aimed at the wrong hours. That sentence changed everything. Ordered immediately. Week 2 the burning started and just didn't build the way it always built. Week 3 I pulled the covers over my feet on a Thursday night just because I was cold. I lay there for a moment registering what I had just done. Then I fell asleep. The spray bottle is still on the nightstand. I haven't reached for it in 12 days.