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Originally Posted by Streetlegal
Hi all,
I just wondered how your IPN first started--the initial symptoms and the circumstances that may have precipitated them.
Initial Symptoms: Mine were innocuous. I developed slight tingling at the end of the fingers on my left hand. Over a few weeks/months symptoms of numbness/paresthesia spread to feet and legs.
The Context: I had started weight lifting and the tingling definitely seemed to stem from this. I was on a fitness trip and had also started taking cold showers every day.
This fitness trip followed two years of high stress-losing parents and problems at work.
The weight-lifting and the cold showers definitely seemed to be the immediate triggers for the disease-like they "stressed" the nerves in my body.
I wonder how long it takes for IPN to develop from damage into symptoms--and whether how it would have unfolded without these triggers.
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My initial symptoms were tightness in my leg muscles, them twitching and cramping. A bit later my feet started burning and various pains like bee stings in various areas. The context was that I was going through an extremely stressful period in my life - not sure if that caused the problem, but surely didn't help. Relaxation methods are part of the regimen that has reduced the symptoms and kept them under control - although they are still there and make themselves known at least a little bit every day.