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Originally Posted by echoes long ago
you could well have two different things going on. Peripheral Neuropathy in the feet and sciatica or something similiar from your back through your legs. This has been going on to me for the last ten days. I have sensory motor axonal PN in my legs from the knee down and in my hands. My feet are dead numb. About ten days ago i started to get the constant pain in the lower back which radiated to the outside right upper thigh made my upper right leg numb. It has slowly been getting better but still hurts today. I have been taking muscle relaxer and aleve. I also have buldging and herniated discs in the lumbar and cervical spine but when i have lower back pain usually its more sharp type of pain then this current one and with the usual lower back pain i can find a comfortable postion to lay down or sit whereas with this there is no comfortable position. Because we have PN we are more susceptible to other nerve related injury or symptoms. Its called the double crush phenomenon. Glenn has posted about this many times here and if you do a search on it on here he explains it in much greater detail than i do.
Basically what im saying is that you can have more than one thing going on. Back surgery may help one but not the other.
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Echoes,
I am almost convinced that I have the double crush phenomenon going on. That is probably why my feet are worse when my back is really hurting. When I lay down with heat on my back, both my back and my feet are somewhat better after a period of time. And now since the stenosis is horrible in my back, my back symptoms are worse and so are the feet. In the meantime, the elevated B6 could be responsible for the original SFN diagnosis.
Like I told mrsD, I've stopped the B6 as instructed and I have lumbar stenosis surgery scheduled for 11/30. It will be very interesting to see what happens with the SFN in the next 6 months! Thanks for your input.