On this board, that's never been a problem. (We're a haven for the long-winded. Myself among them. )

But more to the point, though you may have "had every blood test known to man", I would suspect you haven't had every blood test known to the peripheral neuropathy specialist.

There's a good listing of these in the following document that's in the useful websites section at the top of the board:

http://www.questdiagnostics.com/hcp/...a lNeurop.htm

and even this is not exhaustive (but I'm willing to bet you haven't had every one of these). Given your elevated white counts, I'd be particularly interested in the results of an immunofixation electrophoresis (blood and urine) to scout for any monoclonal antibodies (M-proteins); these have been implicated in many neuropathies. (Since you've had elevated white counts, I'm assuming they've done a preipheral blood smear to type your leuckocytes/lymphocytes and eliminate any possibility of blood cancers. Many of THOSE condtions can also lead to neuropathy.)

There's also the possibilty you have an inherited neuropathy--there are many more of these than people think:

http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/time/hsn.htm

AND--if you had an ovarian cyst, there are certain endocrinological syndromes that should be checked out--how much delving has been done into your thyroid, adrenals, and pituitary?

When we all want to get REALLY exhaustive, we go to the charts at www.lizajane.org. This[ is a series of spreadsheets that has just about any test we could think of for neural symptoms, both peripheral and central. It's also a wonderful tool to track test results over time (and suggest other possible tests to doctors).

Given what you've said about the injections, it's possible you have problems at the spinal base or with the cauna equina that branches down from there; what kind of lumbosacral MRI's have you had? It'd also be interesting to see results of cervical spine MRI's--too many doctors think lower limb symptoms can only result from lumbosacral problems, and that's nonsense.

The unfortunate part of all this is that neural symptoms from spinal problems can exactly mimic those from peripheral nerve problems, and this is part of the reason investigations of neural symptoms can be long and expensive.

Can you give us more detail on exactly what's been done, and what it has/hasn't shown?