@jimhd
Jim, after reading your post and your doctor's statement that "CIDP is an umbrella label for neuropathies" I wondered whether that was true. So I did some web research about it.

From what I read I think your doctor has it backwards, i.e. neuropathy is an umbrella term that includes CIDP as one type, not the other way around.

From what I am reading, CIDP is auto immune, attacks the myelin sheath, similar to multiple sclerosis, with CIDP attacking peripheral nerves instead of the brain & spinal cord as in MS. Other types of neuropathy beside CIDP are the result of nerve damage from other causes (unrelated to immune attacks on the myelin sheath). So CIDP is just a particular type of neuropathy, and not the other way around.

I'm glad I read about it, as I now understand it little better myself. Best, Hank