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Old 11-03-2009, 09:19 PM
Kiwiboy Kiwiboy is offline
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Originally Posted by flyfishobie View Post
See someone at the neurology dept of a medical school or any other facility that has a good reputation in the treatment of pn, like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, Jack Miller Center for PN in Chicago. It is highly unlikely that you discomfort is imaginary.
I would love to see someone in the States, but being that I live in New Zealand, unless I travelled there for treatment/diagnosis, it is unlikely. So unfortunately I am stuck with what our system down here offers me. What I am trying to get these Neuorologists to understand is I would like to get as close to a diagnosis as is possible, at least by a process of elimination. But as yet, nothing has been ruled out. I have not had a single scan, biopsy, or analysis of anything. Apart from reflexes etc...the basics. It does seem that you get thrown into the idiopathic bin fairly quickly down here.
I truly appreciate the suggestions people have made and I have taken it all on board.

I don't want to seem ungrateful for all the advice people have kindly offered, I simply feel at 33 years old I'd like to do all I can sooner rather than later. Especially considering the Paresthesias I get in my hand every night. I'm aware that continued nerve compression can eventually lead to permanent damage. I couldn't believe the Neuro didn't even want to send me for a Nerve Conduction Study?! $380 for him to tell me he 'doesn't think it's Neurological' Now I have people trying to convince me to look at the Anxiety. And yes, I did have some real health Anxiety in the months before this (worried I had Diabetes, which I don't, and a couple of other things that were stressing me out), but I find it hard to believe that this could possibly be from that. I have found no information anywhere about anxiety causing pain/burning, at least, not in the fashion I am experiencing it.
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