Autonomic Neuropathy: Symptoms Beyond the Feet
Autonomic neuropathy damages the nerves running blood pressure, digestion, bladder and sweating.
Autonomic neuropathy damages the nerves running blood pressure, digestion, bladder and sweating.
Ordinary painkillers barely touch nerve pain, which is why so many people conclude nothing works.
Foot drop is a sign, not a diagnosis. Where along the nerve the interruption sits decides everything, and a thirty-second bedside test usually tells you.
Peripheral neuropathy produces sensory, motor and autonomic symptoms, and which set you have narrows the cause.
Alpha-lipoic acid has the most respectable evidence of any supplement sold for nerve pain, and one safety issue almost no retailer mentions: it can lower blood.
Nerve fibers regrow at roughly a millimetre a day, which puts a foot-length repair somewhere near a year.
Five specialties treat different parts of peripheral neuropathy, and starting with the wrong one costs months.
Small fiber neuropathy causes burning, electric pain and temperature changes while standard nerve conduction studies read normal.
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