Welcome to NeuroTalk:
Please come to our PN forum... We have a general discussion forum here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html
and a subforum with informational type posts here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum119.html
In general over the years, the consensus from our posters has been that the sural biopsy, is not useful. It also can impair you and cause permanent pain.
The new procedure called a skin punch biopsy is preferred now.
This measures the nerve receptors in the skin and shows
deterioration better, without damage.
If you go to our forum and type in "sural" in the search box in the upper right of the first page of the forum there,
you will find:
108 posts... on the regular forum (the subforum is at the top).
This is one example:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ighlight=sural
Searches done by individuals don't link over into threads, they expire here. So you will have to do your own search.
But I can tell you now, that a sural biopsy may not be a good idea for you.
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Originally Posted by Beauhill
Hello everybody:
I'm new to the group and have had PN symptoms for about 4 years. Been through many tests and they cannot find anything to date. I am scheduled for a muscle and rural biopsy next week.
Has anyone had this procedure and what is your opinion about this test?
I have had mild drop foot after a round of golf, numb feet and toes and occasional random shooting pains from time to time but they are shirt lived. i have had life changing results by wearing the MBT shoes: Great for walking but a little tougher just standing around. Hope this helps
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