Originally Posted by ajwinpain

I am still fairly new here, and have been alcohol free for over a year. Roughly sixteen months, to be exact.

I do still have the pain flare ups. Outside of a couple months post covid, I do feel the flares aren’t as bad as when I finally made the probable alcohol connection last summer, and stopped drinking completely.

Unfortunately I have an additional variable of an antibiotic reaction that can cause neuropathy, so I do think the two factors have worked together as root causes. Last fall I finally had a positive confirmation via a skin punch biopsy for SFN. The typical EMG/NCV tests throughout many years always came back negative.

Hopefully that at least gives you some additional feedback, too.