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home TENS treatments no longer reduces (increased) feet pain
For the past 2 years, I've used a small battery-operated TENS unit on my feet several times a day to reduce severe feet pain from small fiber neuropathy. The TENS unit reduced my feet pain by about 3 out of 10 points. Recently , the intensity of my feet pain increased significantly, and the TENS unit no longer reduces my feet pain at all, even when the TENS unit's Intensity setting is turned all the way "UP".
Does anyone have any tricks I might use to enable the TENS unit to help reduce the more severe pain now?
How might you explain the fact that the TENS unit no longer reduces my now higher level of feet pain?
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I believe you have hit the proverbial brick wall relating to the TENS relieving your foot pain. You can have your rehab or neuro doc check an EMG to determine if your PN has worsened. Like many of us with chronic pain issues from PN we search for relief and get it where and when we can but we continue to fall apart no matter. Good luck on your quest for relief.
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3 Reactionsmy INFRARED LIGHT facility manger/owner added a medical grade TENS machine that she asked me to try yesterday for 30 min at level 4. She told me it would take a few times to notice a difference. So I'm unqualified to speak to it's effectiveness..but my general understanding from reading MANY REVIEWS of HOME sized devices for Red light, tens, foot/calf massage etc...is that they may work "a little bit" and for a "short time" SORT OF...
That's why I decided to find a facility with medical grade FULL BODY infrared light machines, fda cleared. I do feel that after 16 sessions in the past month I'm finding more hours and sometimes full days with no redness or pain in my feet. I have small fiber neuropathy. And I'm starting to wonder if mine is caused by body structure. When I sit for long periods...the burning and pain returns. So I wonder if nerves are being impinged by swollen muscles or bone on bone vertebrae or???? who knows.
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1 Reactionyou might want to read some studies too:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6426434/
https://lightlounge.life/red-light-therapy
explains the redlight therapy I use. And it has a list of locations. There aren't a lot of them yet. But there might be one near you.
And that their machine is patent pending.
Many years ago I had red laser treatments on my idiopathic peripheral neuropathy feet. After about 10 sessions which is the end of the therapy I didn't feel any better. Now my neuropathy has progressed and hurts a lot more than it did then so I don't have any faith in that kind of treatment unless they have made incredible advances. I wish you the best.