I beg you to please help me clear my mind. I’m getting nuts. It seems like neuropathic pain has all symptoms from what I read on the net, specially in Portuguese.

I need to know if my pain is real or is psicossomatic. Every doctor I’ve been to say my pain is from my head and it is not typical from Small Fibers Neuropathies. I only heard about NP after the initial symptoms (3months ago) So:

1st-I did two EMGs. They were both normal. However I did them 3 months after my initial symptoms;

2nd- I first start feeling burning sensations on my elbows and hands. They were dued to a stupid exercice with dumbbells at home. I felt electric shocks and a pain in my hands when lifting the dumbbells. I had the stock glove sensation on my hands and arms, but I don’t have it anymore. Pain didn’t started on my feet… in fact I don’t have any pain on my feet…

3ª – My first symptoms were maximized one month after my initial symptoms with a stupid massage (very deep) to my whole body, and by 2 MRIs without contrast. From these MRIs I also got a dermographism to my skin;

4 – I can describe my pain nowadays as follows: “Intermitent, and it seem to appear with motion”; “it hurts a bit when someone gives me a friendly slap on shoulders, back, etc…”; “I feel a salty sensation on my body and arms sometimes, if I wear to tight clothes”; “I have stiff hands sometimes since the beginning”

5º- this “Pain” is slowly decreasing.

6th-I don’t have any disease that could cause SFNP. And the pain did not start on my feet.

7th-My pain is eased by “anxiety” pills such as diasepan.

8th When I am about to wake up, I remember the “pain” and I begin feeling it trough my whole body.

I have this problem since 6 month ago.

So I would like to hear your opinion:

Do you think my problem is mostly psycossomatic?

Do you think My nerves are regenerating thus the decreased of “Pain”

Thank you and please put true or false for each item and let me know your intuitive opinium…please!!!!

PS: This is my last thread asking for help...from now on I only help others...