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After diagnosis, do you continue to see your neurologist?

Neuropathy | Last Active: Aug 24 9:13am | Replies (56)

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I have seen 2 neurologists for my autoimmune neuropathy. Both my feet are numb and my left leg feels like it is asleep. Both Neurologists basically said "it is not that bad" LOL! And my GP does not deal with my neuropathy since I have a neurologist. It seems that nowadays, GP's disown any part of your body that is treated by a specialist. I am a nurse and I miss the days of medicine when a GP or internist doctor actually cared and treated you as a whole person.

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Welcome @loripepper, I'm not sure that they don't care about a neuropathy diagnosis. I think it's more that there really is no cure and when you only have numbness (me too!), there's no medication that will help (as far as my non medical background knows) and it's up to each of us to learn as much as we can about our condition and treatments that are available that may help. I shared my neuropathy journey in another discussion here - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/310341/.

I miss those days of medicine myself as I'm old enough to remember having a family doctor that made house calls 🙃. I am hopeful though and a great believer of the work being done to change the doctor/patient relationship - https://www.patientrevolution.org/

There are quite a few discussions and comments on "neuropathy numbness only" if you want to scan through them to learn what others have shared - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/search/?search=neuropathy+numbness+only