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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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My nerve test was negative too but.....
Hey there IllPn......I'm fairly new here but I can tell u of my experience...short story:
Was already pre diabetic when I had to have chemo. The only symptoms I had prior to chemo were burning in my toes at night after I had worked all day. Never paid much attn. to it. A month after chemo ended (March of this year) I suddenly could barely walk....burning, tingling, electrical currents running from mid foot to toes on each foot. Went to my PCP and she said neuropathy...my A1C was up to 8.7 (not high for some people on this site). She did lots of blood work and I had the nerve conduction done. It was negative...I'll never forget the smug face that dr had when he told me that. My PCP put me on 100 mg 3 x a day and then the journey started through quite a few dr's (still have not found the right mix for me). I then read up on the skin punch biopsy and asked my foot dr to do it for me and he agreed. The results ? 0....I had 0 A and C fibers in my feet so the diagnosis is small fiber neuropathy.
My belief is that the chemo escalated my neuropathy. I'm titrating up from 1800 mg of gabapentin a day to 2700 mg per my neuro.
Not sure this info will help much but I wish you lots of luck in finding out how to treat it.
Debi from Georgia
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