Table 3 Pain descriptions

Burning

02-102-1-0: It's always like burning, I don't know how else to say, but it feels like even clothes touching, it's burning. Apparently it's not, but that's what it feels like.

04-105-1-0: When it gets really bad and it will burn. Feel like its hot burning.

Numb

05-102-3-0: It’s a tingling ah in your feet and it goes up to your um ankle and then it’s like numbness like you don’t feel nothing. You can be walking with flip-flaps and the next day you know you think you still have your shoes on, and you’re walking out in your bare feet.

Sharp

01-102-2-0: It just comes on, I mean it’s like a sharp pain and then it just-I usually just try to walk it off or rub it off and then it goes away-and then it returns.

03-106-2-0: Uh, [clearing throat] it's-it's like when it's very severe it's like I'm-I'm walking on a bed of nails or thumb tacks and it, uh, just tingling and very, very, uh, very painful, sharp, sharp pain.

Pins and Needles

01-101-2-0: Not so much pain as it was pins and needles and little stabbing and numbness.

03-103-2-0: A pinprick--you know, lots of pins, poking pins kind of a feeling kind of thing, so it's hard pain to describe, but that's as close as I can get.

Throbbing

08-104-3-1: I think the fact that it's when it starts it is-it will kind of throb and throb and throb for a while.