[Peter]

Hi

I have suffered pain in my feet for about 5 years now it has steadily got worse over the course of those years and its now at its worse. I am being treated for small fibre neurophy of the feet, i am taking morphine and anit-depressants. I am 39 and i am not a diabetic. I am now at the end of my tether I just dont want to get out of bed each morning and feel i and my young family have no quality of life, my wife does not believe in this day something can not be done to help , and so is looking into alternatives.
After searching the internet we are now wondering if maybe i am mis-diagnosed, and keep coming back to vitamin B12 deficiency.

Can anyone help or has anyone had any similar problems.

Would be grateful of any advice.

Peter

[glenntaj]

It's entirely possible you have small-fiber neuropathy symptoms traceable to B12 deficiency, although usually B12 deficiency will attack the spinal cord and larger nerve with myelin sheathing first.

What kinds of diagnostic testing have you had? It's been many of our experience that many doctos are not familiar with the range of testing for neurological disorders--central or peripheral. Moreover, few know that a serum B12 level is not the most reliable indicator of B12 deficiency (MMA and homcysteine levels are better). Besides, the range for "normal" B12 levels given at most US and Canadian labs is probably way out of date (most labs here give values in the 200-1100 range; in Europe and Japan, the low normal range starts at 500 to 550 and often there is no upper limit. as B12 has no known toxicity level).

Come on over to the Vitamin/Mineral/Supplement forum--temendous amount of B12 info and links there (among other things):

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum49.html

You might also benefit from a look at the Gluten/Celiac and Peripheral Neuropathy forums, where this topic is discussed frequently:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...prune=100&f=13

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...sprune=-1&f=20

[Darlene]

Peter,

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. You will find a great number of caring, supporting members here willing to help each other as they can.

I see Glenntaj has given you some links to help out. Just let us know how we can be of service to you.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene