So did your EMG/NCS show long fiber damage to reach that diagnosis? My neuro told me that if someone has long fiber damage the likelihood is they have some small fiber involvement as well. Will a second biopsy change your course of treatment?
As far as reflexes go, brisk reflexes are common at first with neuropathy in the lower extremities. As the condition progresses they usually diminish.
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Idiopathic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy
Atypical Migraine
Chiari 1 malformation 7 mm
PLIF L5-S1 Sept. 2013
Lumbar MRI March 2013: degenerative changes from L3 to S1. L3 and L4 have tiny annular tears with disc bulge. L5-S1 bilateral pars defects anterolisthesis (spondylosis/spondylithesis?) I have an annular tear here too, along with a conjoined left L5-S1 nerve root. Mild effacement of the thecal sac at the origins of the bilateral S1 nerve roots, left greater than right. Mild bilateral Neural foraminal stenosis.
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