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Nerve damage and pain that isn’t neuropathy but feels like it.
Neuropathy | Last Active: May 18, 2023 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
@nemo1 I’m looking at this from a different viewpoint because I have experienced and had surgery for pain caused by a spine condition. Your reports indicate radiculopathy which is compression of nerves as they leave the spinal cord. This type of issue is treated by decompression surgery to free up the bone growth or ruptured discs that cause pressure. Once a disc herniates, it causes inflammation and overgrowth of bone, essentially arthritis in the spine. This often does cause sharp burning or electric pain when nerves are compressed. The report also mentioned compressed nerves in the cubital tunnel which is in the elbow. That can add more pain, and it is possible to have more than one compression area on the same nerve. Have you had an opinion from a spine surgeon about your pain?
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I hope there is a remedy for this.
Thank you for that information. Surgery. I’m not sure how much of that decompression surgery would help in multiple areas??? I need something to kill the pain in the soles and tops of feet. Yesterday was brutal. Day by day it seems to be a little more difficult to get around. It hurts so badly, I can’t put on shoes. I have to wear fuzzy slippers around. We were supposed to go out for my sisters birthday. I can’t keep missing out on life because of this. It is extremely disruptive. I’m sorry for the pain you have endured. How was the decompression surgery? Did it relieve the pain and how long did it take to do that?
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Hi Jennifer,
I am still being worked up by the NM Doctor. MRI, CT and possibly lumbar puncture depending on what the MRI shows. She is looking to see if its compression or inflammation. It’s polyradiculopathy and the year before I was told it was in my back and lumbo sacral regular Radiculopathy. She didn’t test the arm and only did one leg. I changed doctors. I think I will get answers from her. My current dr could not comment on therapies until the other tests come in. I was jumping the gun after the EMG. Asking questions she could not yet answer. Thank you. I suppose if it is a condition causing the inflammation we shall see. For polyradiculopathy there was not a whole lot of info except some that said it was caused my a demyelination of the nerves. Another said Guillian Bare Syndrome. I am not sure this is degeneration but the MRI should show something. Last mri from august of last year showed multiple areas of concern but degeneration at L5 and they found autoimmune psoriatic arthritis in sacrum. So, that might correspond with the S1 radiculopathy. Not sure. I will let you know what the mri shows and what the doctor says next steps are. Last mri of lumbar did not include contrast. This one will.