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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Jackson, TN
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Location: Jackson, TN
Posts: 242
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I've just read this thread from it's start to the last by Silverlady...Billye. Am I missing something? For 20 years I have had constant numbness from my lower shoulders to fingertips and from upper thighs to toes with the worst being in my legs/feet from the lower calves down.
Am I to understand that most of you have numbness and the other PN symptoms like tingling, pins & needles, burning, etc., which comes and goes? That there are periods of time when you have no numbness or other symptoms at all? If this is true I find this amazing because my numbness and other symptoms are constant and it's always been constant...the same as my pain is constant and the most severe pain is from my calves down. All the pn symptoms in my extremities vary from mild to severe but they too are always there. If memory serves, it took about 6 months for my PN symptoms to reach the stages it's now in. I've had PN for 20 years and all the symptoms reached it's present stage after the first 6 months or so and has remained this way for the last 19½ years! And now I'm learning that some of you seem to be saying there are periods of time where you have NO symptoms, or at least only some of the symptoms at varying times.
I just find this incredible as I thought everyone's PN symptoms was similar to mine with the exception of varying degrees of severity. It just never occured to me that the pain, pins & needles, burning, stinging, electric like shocks, numbness, etc were sometimes non-existent. None of my symptoms have ever gone away - not for an hour, or 1 minute, or 1 second. They are constant and have been with me all these years. The symptoms in my calves down are constant and severe. The other affected areas run from mild to moderate but they are always there. My pain medication makes life liveable by reducing the pain from the calves down to a tolerable 2 to 4 on the 1 to 10 pain scale and makes the pain in the other areas almost non existent - as long as I don't forget to change the patch when due!!!
Would someone please confirm to me that there are times when they have NO pain, no numbness, no pins & needles, etc etc etc ?
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