|
Grand Magnate
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,440
|
|
|
Grand Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,440
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Electron
My PN is apparently hereditary since my mother has it too, although the nature of our pain is different. At Mayo they diagnosed me with small-fiber sensory neuropathy. I have no motor involvement. It sounds like CMT (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease) generally has motor involvement. Does it always? Is it still possible that I have CMT with no motor involvement. The pain started slow and has progressed over 7 years.
Electron
|
This site might help you.
http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/symptoms.php
Symptoms of CMT vary greatly even within the same family. The same type that is diagnosed in a family member is what the rest would have if they do inherit it. Symptoms can become evident when you are young, old, or in-between. Or they might not ever be that evident. CMT is a complicated syndrome.
__________________
Kitt
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"It is what it is."
|