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Because I have both Peripheral Neuropathy and spinal degeneration I'm experiencing symptoms that overlap. Currently I would like to know if anyone can comment on my PN symptoms in such a way that might help me decide if they're the PN or the Lumbar issues.
Bilateral numbness in my feet and a little going up the legs seems very PN to me. What seems not PN is that when I wake up first thing in the AM my PN is such that I have little problems walking around doing small activities like making breakfast etc.. HOWEVER, once I engage in more actions or am just standing or sitting for any length of time my symptoms get wildly aggravated. I go from feeling just slightly delicate to feeling dangerously numb, in pain and weakened. I get lots of clicking at the lumber where the issues are and bits of pain generated from there. Can anyone speak to the symptoms of PN and if this is mostly PN or do some of these symptoms seem separate from PN?
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@darrenp Spine issues and pain symptoms can change because of movement in the spine that changes the amount of pressure on the spine itself. If there is already an issue there, you may be adding more or less pressure with your body position changes. When vertebrae are slipping, they may slip into alignment with one position, and slip out of alignment in another. That is certainly a clue to tell your doctor. Another thing is that the spinal cord floats in fluid within the spinal canal, and it has to shift back and forth as you bend your spine. If there is compression or tethering, it can stretch the spinal cord while compressing it when you bend. Clicking in the spine is likely the facet joints. They will get more pressure on them if you have a collapsing disc. The discs carry about 80% of the weight and the facet joints about 20%. Facet joints allow the twisting movement in the spine. Please check my response to you in your post in the Spine group. Here is the link to that post. https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1199130/