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Does this sound like Neuropathy?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Dec 13, 2025 | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
@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.
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@dave11 I have no medical training or background but do believe that Naproxen may be helping with nerve pain from inflammation but that's just from what I've read. I shared my neuropathy journey in another discussion here - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/310341/.
I also like sweets and sugary foods but it's a double edge sword for me also. Changing my lifestyle and getting my weight under control has helped me slow or possibly stop the progression of my idiopathic small fiber peripheral neuropathy. I have never been diabetic but I've always been in the pre-diabetes category and it's only been since 2016 when I joined Connect that I figured out that I had to change my eating habits, lose some more weight and maintain a healthier lifestyle. I got a little more serious about what I needed to do after learning about the metabolic syndrome which doctors don't seem to emphasize how bad it can be for folks in the pre-diabetes category. Here's a couple of research papers if you want to learn a little more about it.
-- The metabolic syndrome – What is it and how should it be managed?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2047487319886404
-- A comprehensive definition for metabolic syndrome
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675814/
-- The Metabolic Syndrome and Neuropathy: Therapeutic Challenges and Opportunities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881591