Kidney disease is a major issue in healthcare and can also cause peripheral nerve damage. We get a fair number of patients with peripheral neuropathy that also happen to have kidney disease. Reports vary, but upwards of 60-100% of uremic (patients with kidney disease) patients have peripheral nerve damage from their kidney disease! That is […]

Why is it so hard to get help with peripheral neuropathy? In 2007 we began working with peripheral neuropathy patients. One thing that has not changed is how we hear over and over how difficult it is to get help. The struggle to improve their quality of life, to avoid a decline in what they […]

  (Quotations in this post are from the excellent article at the bottom of this page) Here is what to read if none of your peripheral neuropathy symptoms fit in the normal box of numbness, tingling, burning, cold, strength, and balance.  What if you have redness?  Swelling?  Blotchy skin?  Hair loss?  Peripheral neuropathy can damage […]

Peripheral neuropathy, regardless of cause, is a nerve issue.  Some damage process, whether that is from diabetes, chemotherapy, autoimmune issues, heavy metal poisoning or some physical damage, hurts the nerves.  Since the nerves are responsible for so many things when they are not working, they can cause a variety of symptoms. But that does not […]

Most clinicians who work with peripheral neuropathy begin to adopt the mindset that if anything (legal!) helps a patient feel better they should do it. If it can provide some peripheral neuropathy relief and still be safe it may be worth a try. In our practice working with hundreds (maybe thousands by now?) we have […]

  Neuropathy messes with your strength and balance I could have also titled this, “I exercise, but I seem to be getting weaker” or, “I did physical therapy, but didn’t get as good of results as I would have hoped.” In this post we spoke a bit on how neuropathy can cause pain, numbness, or […]

Negative EMG/NCV so I don’t have neuropathy?  Not so fast!! (You can skip to the chase here – you CAN have peripheral neuropathy with a normal EMG/NCV) A very common method of testing for peripheral nerve damage are electromyelegrams (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV) tests, they are called electrodiagnostic tests as well.  A good […]

Am I insane?  I have pain and I feel like I’m going numb. No, you are not insane because you have pain and numbness.  Peripheral neuropathy, when it is damage to the ends of the nerves, can pick and choose which nerve endings to damage. Your symptoms depend on which nerve endings are damaged. Think […]

Partial improvement after chemo? “Some of my neuropathy improved after chemotherapy but my feet still feel (numb, tingly, painful, whatever)” In another posting we looked into why chemotherapy induced neuropathy might persist even after treatment is completed. I get my ideas of what to write about from the conversations I have with my patients. And […]