HOw many of the 'stickies' have you read? Try this one on for size, then the next....
1 -http://www.aafp.org/afp/980215ap/poncelet.html
READ the whole thing.....
2 - http://www.neuroexam.com/content.php?p=2
Read the whole thing....
3- http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/alfindex.htm
TRY and read the whole thing! Then sort out what your test results say to what you mite have? Or, even IF you've had enough tests to truly diagnose you?
Nothing is cheaper [tho time consuming?] than second opinions! I have had many for many different issues, and they HAVE SAVED MY LIFE! I've one of the less 'common' immune-related neuropathies, tho..it mite have been related to a cancer 'hatching' and diagnosed 18 months after I'd gotten diagnosed with the immune PN... Not one doc has connected the two? Because tests weren't done at a key time during the PN diagnosis. No matter. Treatment for me is still the same either way. But for you? I don't think you have been fully tested out yet! Even so? You still have to live with it all and the consequences! GO forth! Get tested, Be brave, Make the time for these appointments! Get to know WHAT you mite or mite not be dealing with! Go fight it all and face it all with a vengeance. You must do this now, when you can and while you can. I can't say this more emphatically.
I wasn't working [could not?] during my diagnosis, my exhaustion after each effort allowed me to 'pace' two doc appointments/tests a week. It'd take me three days to recover from one to get to the next. Soo, I'm essentially saying? Go and get revenge and prove to those docs YOU have a PROBLEM!
It IS exhausting, but worth it! 's and HOPE for sure! - j