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Coffee has been proven to increase neuropathy pain. Coffee is a stimulant why would you drink something that will stimulate your nerves even more? I went through RN school and quit drinking coffee in 2005. I had mrsa bacterial spinal meningitis and suffered nerve damage. I drank coffee and Dr. pepper. I quit and the a lot of my pain went away. Then started the neuropathy I love vanilla cream cokes but not worth the pain. I have autoimmune severe axonal sensorimotor peripheral polyneuropathy,
cardiac autonomic neuropathy, dysautonomia, lupus and SFN along with asthma. My neurologist also told me to stop drinking caffeine. He was a neuromuscular neurologist and the research neurologist in Boston told me not to drink caffeine.
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I have CIDP/AMSAN
Acute Motor/Sensory Axonal Neuropathy. I frankly drink a lot of coffee to counteract the fatigue caused by the desease. It does not increase my nerve pain. .
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I don't think you can categorically say coffee increases neuropathy pain. I have severe stenosis in my lumbar spine and pain in my glutes, hamstrings, calves and feet because of it. I found, quite by accident, that coffee seemed to help me. I am normally a tea drinker, but I recently went to visit a relative who only had coffee in her house. So for 5 mornings in a row, I drank coffee, and my level of pain improved noticeably. I have continued to drink coffee with no ill effects.