The 2 AM 'Foot Fire' Mystery: Why Your Socks Might Be the Enemy
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The Phantom Heat
Your feet feel like fire, but measure normal.
If you were to point an infrared thermometer at your burning feet, it would show a perfectly normal body surface temperature. The heat isn't coming from your blood or skin friction, but from a severe glitch in your body's communication system. Your brain is receiving faulty, desperate 'fire' signals.