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@johnbishop

Hi @kdallen, I'm sorry to hear you are still struggling with small fiber neuropathy. You mentioned your GP believes your condition has advanced to autonomic neuropathy and you think a referral to Mayo might help. I'm no expert but a lot of us have been in similar situations and worried about progression of our condition. The big question I would ask my GP is that will my treatment options change if I go to Mayo and if they are able to determine that I have autonomic neuropathy. My guess is it doesn't make a difference, they can only treat the symptoms since there is no cure for neuropathy.

If your current treatment isn't controlling the pain or other symptoms, have you looked into any complementary or alternative treatments? Have you seen the list of treatments on the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy's website? They also include complementary and alternative treatments which might be helpful — https://www.foundationforpn.org/treatments/.

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John - Again... you are right about treating symptoms. Many of us who have been to Mayo likely walked out with an answer on what type of PN we have and at the same time, no cure. I feel we go into this looking for the cause and go through the typical tests. Is the cause medication related, some toxin, an injury for a prior fall or something we inherited? With well over 100 different causes, pin pointing it down is difficult. So, without the cause, the best we can do is treat what we can and that is the symptoms and keep hoping for a cure.