My PN came on all at once in April ‘04.

I had been under a lot of stress (long time wife dumped me). Then the sadness/worry just kept coming from all different directions. When to the Dr about the PN and was told “your kidneys are not working right”. That tossed in yet another panic - turned out to be wrong but I almost killed myself trying to cut down on protein. Then the only friend left in my life (my mom died).

Three or four years of total bad news after bad news - in my opinion added to the PN and may have been a major cause of it in the first place.

My burning - buzzing - prickling goes and come and goes and changes and comes and changes and gets worse and gets better.

While I use to be able to say “hey maybe it is repairing” - the fact is .... overall it is getting worse.

Fatigue.

The one thing that is consistent regarding (PN related) fatigue (for me) is sleep. Lower amounts of sleep crank up the PN.

I keep forgetting that until ..... until I have a low sleep night (the PN does not cause lack of sleep - stress of it and aging and worry does) I get a very blatant reminder.