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Originally Posted by diagnonsense
Wouldn't that basically be like fibromialgia?
They don't know what causes the pain in that disorder either do they? And yet the people who suffer from it are in a load of pain.
However, there are mental disorders that cause "pain" when there is no pain AKA psychosomatic pain.
But, if you have a negative EMG (no large fiber damage) and negative skin biopsy (no small fiber damage), I think we can rule out peripheral neuropathy at least.
A MRI of brain and spine would be good, to see if its a central nervous disorder.
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Fibromyalgia is debated as a somatoform disorder, some say it is, some say it isn't! It all depends on the person I think, some could be diagnosed with Fibro and it really be a phyc. disorder.
Peripheral would show up in either a Biopsy of some kind or/and an EMG, then we'll move to disease of the central nervous systems nerves or an injury to the spinal column.
An SSEP is a test where the test the amount of time it takes for your spinal cord to transfer electrical impulses to your brain. It will determine if there is a lesion in your spinal column that A. they couldn't see with an MRI or B. that area wasn't tested.
Also, blood work, do you have results that you could show us? Especially TSH? Your thyroid? Hypothyroid could mimic Neuropathy.