If your doctor offers the skin biopsy, I'd have it done.
The damages to the nerves with toxins often occur at the dorsal root area, and when that becomes long term the end fibers eventually die back.
People with a genetic flaw that cannot repair minor damage to the dorsal root neurons, continue with the PN. Others with time tend to repair some or all of the damage by making certain growth enzymes. Research is just beginning on this factor, so there is little in the way of quick hope...but with time some stem cell treatment might be devised.
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