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Neuropathy in feet and limited toe movement?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Nov 11, 2020 | Replies (150)Comment receiving replies
Interesting that you ask that. Linda asked me yesterday to do some research into inflammation, to understand it better. I did start doing some reading on it and I came across a reference to neurogenic inflammation. So I looked that up and found that there is likely to be a connection between the immune system (the initiator of inflammation) and the peripheral nervous system. And the original article said that neurogenic inflammation can cause migraine headaches, which leads me to suspect that Linda's severe headaches (which may or may not technically be migraines) might be related to her having neuropathy. Anyway, I have more to investigate along these lines but it seems like there may well be a connection between neuropathy and a lot of health problems. To answer your question though, I would say that although there have been other health things that have arisen since she got the neuropathy, most of them did not develop in conjunction with the onset of the PN, or even very soon after. If I find out more I'll let you know Jim. Hank
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@jimhd and @jesfactsmon Here's one for you guys...although I do remember this happening prior to my neuropathy diagnosis, I have tongue flares which leave my tongue highly sensitive and painful to salt and acidic foods, almost raw and any textured food (ex: raisins) scraping over it hurts. I went to an ENT doc about 4 years back and no reason was derived. My neuro just listened, along with all my other symptoms, and culminated SFN. My tongue gets inflammed and feels like (I would think anyway) a cat's tongue....you know, dry, like sandpaper. I literally ice it down or let it wag in a cold cup of water to soothe it. I know, TMI!!! Lol! Hey - if we cant laugh, we cant live. Anyway, I regress from high sodium, acidic fruits, tomatoes, etc... and let it ride out but, it's not pleasant. I used to chalk my oddities up to me being a "delicate flower" but, now I go with that damn neuropathy of mine as the culprit! What a pain in the #*@!!! 🙃
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Hi Hank. Agreed on the headache part and neuropathy. I live it and feel differences between migraine, cervicogenic headaches and what I believe to be neuropathy flares through head and neck. You're such a good researcher.