Hello, I am new here and appreciate this forum. I am looking for some help.

Today I saw a neurologist specializing in polyneuropathy. My symptoms are burning feet and ulnar neuropathy in my left arm(numb 4th and 5th fingers) about three months old.

I brought several tests. The abnormalities in the tests were in the 3 hour glucose tolerance test where insulin was 5x above normal range and glucose was slightly above normal range. In the 24 hour urine analysis protein was slightly above normal range. The EMG test showed ulnar neuropathy. Tests that showed up negative are thyroid, B12, HIV, Lyme disease and heavy metals.

The neurologist told me to talk and he would listen. I explained the onset of my symptoms including that I was withdrawing from risperdal during onset of neuropathy symptoms. I was put on risperdal as a youth to cover zoloft side effects which I was put on against my will as I didn't need to be on it for one because I was not in the least bit depressed. But I felt like I had just told the doctor that I am crazy and was conscious of that.

Then I told him that from reading the internet I thought the burning feet was from an immune disorder(CIDP) or something you want to take seriously. He then said something about the internet, that it has poor information, or that you can read something on the internet and think you have it but you don't. So I said that I googled burning feet a few weeks after its onset to insure him that I didn't read about it then make it up. He said "that'll do it," about google.

Then he asked me if I'm a doctor or if I have read books on polyneuropathy, for briefly meantioning the internet. He said this kindly to insure me that I did not have polyneuropathy, or something serious. But he did not then explain what I could possibly have other than polyneuropathy, or how if I had polyneuropathy how it wasn't something serious.

Here is the thing. He said that he found no signs of polyneuropathy. But during the exam his metal tool felt cooler above my knee than below. He took my word on that in his evaluation. But he didn't take my word on my burning feet?

After the exam he recorded a message for my doctor through a hand held device saying I had no signs of polyneuropathy, but saying about the temperature findings in the "stocking and glove" distribution of my "feet but not hands." Then he told me he thinks the burning in my feet will go away. If it doesn't I should come back in a year or sooner if it gets worse.

So that is my visit to a neurologist.