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Ideas for pain relief from Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN)

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@jager5210

Hi Chris,

No stressors except my medical issues. Really! I'm very lucky in this regard. I cannot relate the fluctuations in my SFN symptoms with anything for certain.

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Chris Trout, Volunteer Mentor | @artscaping | Oct 15, 2019

@jager5210....I am back from my clinician appointments and have reflected on your issue: stressors. You are unable to relate the fluctuations in your SFN symptoms with anything you recognize.

For me, this is a mind/body/spirit issue. I share Hippocrates' viewpoint that “the nature of the body can only be understood as a whole, for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.”

The other point I pondered was this. If a stressor is a stimulus and stress is the response, and I have no stressors then what is causing the SFN pain I feel in my hands, etc? We do know that stress can load you up with adrenaline and other hormones that wear away at your cardiovascular system. We do know that it exacerbates pain.

So, @jager5210, would you feel comfortable sharing how your SFN symptoms fluctuate? Level of pain, and type of pain or discomfort? Area of the body? Length of pain....chronic, intermittent?

Thanks so much for hanging in there.....please have happiness this evening. Chris

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