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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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Welcome to NeuroTalk.
20 yrs is a long time to feel so poorly!
If you are going to have blood work, make sure it includes B12 levels and Vit D. Also thyroid. Fasting Insulin and glucose.
Can you tell us what drugs you take? You can PM me if you want privacy. Sometimes drugs deplete nutrients, and can cause symptoms that way. Some antibiotics are very hard on the nervous system. Fluoroquinolones can cause permanent damage to the peripheral nerves. (Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox etc). Flagyl also has caused neuropathies.
Having a neuropathy is like a detective novel. You have to examine everything. What drugs you use, your environment for toxins or heavy metals, hereditary causes (CMT) and autoimmune factors. Thyroid disease, pre-diabetes and frank diabetes, also can contribute.
Let us know how your tests come out. Ask for the results and don't accept "normal". Some doctors call B12 levels of 200 "normal" and they are NOT. Lab ranges in US are quite antiquated.
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