--though I'm sorry about what is bringing you here.

Neuropathy, unfortunately, is a common secondary results of many types of autoimmune collagen/connective tissue/vascular autoimmunities (almost any of the conditions associated with variants of the anti-nuclear antibody, or ANA). It can occur both as a result of direct compression on nerves from the tissue changes and through autoimmune mechanisms as well.

I would come on over to the Neuropathy forum here, if you haven't already--lots of information and empathy:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html

Also, this is the link to the Washington University Neuromuscular database, which has lots of information on many types of neuropathy--I've linked specifically here to the collagen/vascular/ANA section:


http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/antib...x.html#vascgen