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Ideas for pain relief from Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN)

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@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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jager5210 | @jager5210 | Oct 16, 2019

Hi Chris,

I like your point of view and I appreciate your willingness to help me focus in on what the 'stress issues' might be. I will have to get back to you in a day or three because my pain level is too high to sit at the computer and type intelligently. On the other hand, I wish I could compose my thoughts during these periods because I am more acutely aware of how complex the pain experience is for me. It's not a single or simple type of pain but a melody that changes by the minute until I have to find someway to minimize it like laying down. It's also not in a single area of my body but in my toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms and sometimes my chest, face and tongue. And then there's my low back pain which provides a constant backdrop of pain for the neuropathy.

I had a visit with a new primary care physician who is in the Piedmont Group as opposed to Wellstar or Emory. He read to me that my neurologist wrote that I had SFN mediated by stress. Here's the interesting thing about this is that I've never been asked about stressors in my life by any doctor except for a cardiologist when I had a cardiovascular event 4 years ago.

My body is telling me my time is up in front of the computer. I do need to try and put into words all the different impressions I have of my pain but it's hard to do when I'm in pain.
Thanks for your concern.

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