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Does this sound like Neuropathy?

Neuropathy | Last Active: Dec 13, 2025 | Replies (7)

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Hello Dave @dave11, Welcome to Connect. Here's some information on the symptoms of proximal neuropathy that may provide some answers:

"Can neuropathy affect one side of the body?
Proximal neuropathy is a rare and disabling type of nerve damage in your hip, buttock, or thigh. This type of nerve damage typically affects one side of your body and may rarely spread to the other side. Proximal neuropathy is more common in men than in women and more common in people older than age 50."
--- Proximal Neuropathy: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/preventing-problems/nerve-damage-diabetic-neuropathies/proximal-neuropathy

You might want to check out the following discussion on similar symptoms while you wait for others to respond:
-- Complete left side pain, from top to bottom.:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/complete-left-side-pain-from-top-to-bottom/
Have you had a chance to discuss your symptoms/thoughts with your doctor?

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@johnbishop Thank you so much for replying. I have searched everything online to research my pains and even had MRI scans to check for inflammatory arthritis but I'm non the wiser really and have been living with this for years. When I stumbled upon Neuropathy online it seems to fit exactly my symptoms.

There are a couple of things though that may not fit - I feel a strong link with food choices. A clean totally healthy diet seems to keep inflammation down but if I eat sugary bad fat foods I get the symptoms. It can take sometimes an accumulation of days of eating a bit of rubbish food for it to kick in and I can feel it building up until it seems to blow out in severe pain. Every time it does I go all in on a clean diet, cut out tea and coffee, use a accupressure mat lying on it on my back and after a few days of this I can feel a relief of things like pain, swollen feeling in my body etc.

It is weird.

Secondly I do get relief I think from Naproxen - neuropathy doesn't do this? Or is it the inflammation aspect that is at work here?

Thanks.