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Originally Posted by Hwatt47
I have seen slipped disc,and a displaced vertabre in the base of my spine ,,I was diagnosed by a neurologist with peripheral neuropathy,I have the cold,wet,numb,pins and needles in my feet ,more recently my knees are in agony and my legs feel like they won't support me,I also have the awful sensation of wetting myself ,I haven't I may add ,but it feels like I am constantly weeing, I went to the doctors the other day and she didn't seem to listen to me Said it was all in my head and gave me antidepressants,,I am now panicking going out or to work ,is there anyone else experiencing this type of symptom..
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Hi, too many doctors doesn’t listen and this is very frustrating..
Have you done EMG or skin biopsy that confirms peripheral neuropathy ?
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Originally Posted by Hwatt47
I had the MRI on my lower spine done at the end of 2014 that's when they discovered the damage on my spine ,had pain injection in spine in january,,came of all my medication as didn't feel they were working and that's when I felt the sensations in my feet ,so went back to doctors ,so had another MRI of my brain and top of neck 2 weeks ago but still waiting results ,just wanting know if what I am feeling in my bladder is connected.
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Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a type of peripheral neuropathy that can be diagnosed by a skin biopsy. SFN can affect the sensory fibers and cause the sensory symptoms in the legs, and it can also affect the fibers of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) which controls the bladder.
I don't know whether the nerves that receive the sensation from the bladder can be affected by SFN.
The autonomic nervous fibers that controls the bladder path from the brain through the spinal cord and exits from the lower part of the spine. So another option might be that any damage along this path can affect the bladder.
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Originally Posted by DavidHC
I've been led to think that mechanical issues in the cervical spine can't cause symptoms in the head and face - I have numbness, tingling, twitching and electrical current feelings on my face and head - but it seems like your image is claiming the contrary, at least with respect to certain symptoms. My MRI showed no signal change, but in two places there was mild cervical spine compression. Thanks.
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Problems in the spine might affect the head. The sympathetic innervation of the head path through the spinal cord, so such problems affect sweating in the head, tears, saliva, constriction of blood vessels, pupils, etc.
Your facial sensory symptoms might be attributed to the trigeminal nerve. I’m not sure, as far as I remember the lower part of the trigeminal nerve is located in the upper cervical spine.
Do you feel these symptoms on one side of the face ? or is it symmetric ?
The trigeminal nerve has
3 branches.
When I had trigeminal neuralgia I felt the pain and other weird sensation only on one side of the face and the exact borders of each of these branches.