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Originally Posted by UTGrad
Although I'm not advocating "stress" or "anxiety" creates PN problems, people with anxiety disorders present with many physical symptoms that are not linked to any organic disease. This is fact.
I have had anxiety issues for years and a laundry list of unexplained physical ailments. Once I addressed the underlying anxiety issue the psychosomatic issues cleared up.
I think doctors see a lot of psychosomatic based ailments so when they see someone suffering with a idiopathic ailment they jump to the psychosomatic conclusion without taking other causes into consideration.
Again not saying PN is caused by a mental process, but the mind is a part of our body and when it is out of whack it can create a lot of physical symptoms that can't be connected to any organic cause.
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you said this already, but im pretty sure you cant"fake" a neuropathy, if your so-called neuropathy, is caused by stress, than you should reduce it, i think the tests you are going through is causing more stress.
My neuropathy is with loss of smell, was sudden onset, and it dint appear because of stress, it appeared on the day i took diphenhydramine. and my inability to smell normally and loss of sensation is very concerning, and could be dangerous. im pretty sure "mental" condition cant cause Neuropathy continiously for weeks or months.
People can get frustrated because, of the Doctors unwilling to believe its neuropathy, and sayings your nuts for thinking that.
-the delay in diagnosis.
-i find it disheartening that doctors see neurological symptoms and mental condition, or the cause, they are not the same. neurological disorders, are disease of nerves, or neurons, while mental condition, is a disorder , probably biochemical in parts of the brain, used for emotions, and is self-limiting.
-i know my loss of smell and sensations, with other neuropathy was caused by stress.
i HAD alot of twitching within the first few weeks of the initial neuropathy and increased in twitching. Im pretty sure people also said, due to the frustration in the doctors and the disease itself, it can be stress full.
Utagrad, if you had mental condition for years, its possible your "neuropathy" is caused by it, and by your daily runs.
now if you look at everyones post, theres came out of nowhere, or sudden onset, without anything stressful(mentally) happening.
@canagirl, i think thats the common symptom of everyone with neuropathy, sometimes my right eyelid twitchs for up to 10 minutes, and parts of my body like my arms and legs, that rarely twitch also happen as well.
i also get myclonic jerks(falling asleep, jerking movement),