Yes, that is what the doctors did years ago, the pin pricks and cotton wool, and they thought I did have "neuropathy" because I could not feel the pricky thing from the knee down to the foot too well... It was after the gastroparesis hospitalization and numbness last year that I went to a new neurologist. At that time, I was having daily migraines and chest/heart pains as well. He decided to do the skin biopsy and also told me that I had dysautonomia and probable autonomic neuropathy. The skin test came back positive for moderate small fiber neuropathy. He did a whole lot of blood work and that all came back negative. So, idiopathic neuropathy... it sucks.
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Originally Posted by malawigirl08
Thanks guys, the only diagnostic method used on me was pin pricks on my legs and then cotton wool rubbed on my skin. I have all blood tests which have come back normal.this is all the tests I have had done in 10 years of symptoms and the past two my GP has said PN.
My pain consultant told me not to rule out MS and that is what is worrying me at the moment.
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