[filipe]

Hi,

When people define NP as a chronic pain, this means the pain is forver?

Does anyone knows anybody that has been cured from this pain? Does one can expect a cure or just a decrease of symptoms through time, in case its NP isn't associated with any chronic desiese?

[mrsD]

I have to wonder at this question.

Filipe, do you expect to live a totally painfree life?
At your age you are entering middle age, where stuff happens.
Different things happen to each person, but I can assure you some pain will be present in your life from now on from something or other.

[Kitt]

Originally Posted by mrsD

I have to wonder at this question.

Filipe, do you expect to live a totally painfree life?
At your age you are entering middle age, where stuff happens.
Different things happen to each person, but I can assure you some pain will be present in your life from now on from something or other.

Thank you mrsD. That is so true. Some people think that they will not have any pain throughout their life, but we certainly do especially as we age.

[filipe]

Filipe, do you expect to live a totally painfree life?

Of course not Mr D. I just wanna know if the improvement in pain that LizaJane talks is towards a cure. Noboydy is pain free. But what scares me is the idea "that your nervous system" is continuously sending pain signals without a reason (this for me is not a pain, it is a disease itself). And by the way, is this explanation the official one?

I also can seem to understand this:

if nerves regenerate - this is a fact;
So why the pain after they are regenerated? Is this a fact too? Does anyone knows? Do Drs know for sure, or it is all supositions?

[nide44]

There is no cure for PN.

Research is being done, but hasn't found one yet.

Chronic means it will be with you for a long, long time .....
until a cure is found.

Some people have had the progress arrested
(as in my case,..... at the moment !)
by proper diagnosis by a PN specialist, proper treatment,
& proper supplements for good nerve health.

Pain is a constant companion with this disease,
but proper treatment, meds, & supplements
can decrease it to a manageable level.

In other words, its with you for life, at this time.

If you deal with it properly, you can live
as normal a life, as possible.

[filipe]

Ok, but how to distinguish the pain from the disiese? If one's hit with his elbow it feels neuropathic pain, but it is just for a period of time, right?

In my case, my pain was all the time, now is intermittent. I also felt that stock glove feeling. But now it is gonne. Do you think my improvement could decolepe towards a cure?

[mrsD]

You didn't read the link I gave you a few days ago.

Hitting your elbow and getting a tingling is not neuropathic pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociception

Neuropathic means pathology of nerves. Not all pain that is felt is pathological damage to nerves. Some is relating sensation from the environment.

You injured yourself. There is no evidence you injured your nerves. You may have just created a painful circumstance.

You are getting better, why are you still obsessing about this?

[filipe]

Originally Posted by mrsD

You didn't read the link I gave you a few days ago.

Hitting your elbow and getting a tingling is not neuropathic pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociception

Neuropathic means pathology of nerves. Not all pain that is felt is pathological damage to nerves. Some is relating sensation from the environment.

You injured yourself. There is no evidence you injured your nerves. You may have just created a painful circumstance.

You are getting better, why are you still obsessing about this?

Because there are days I feel very bad. I feel the burns all over my body. Pain when someone slaps me on my shoulder, etc. There are other days I feel good. There are some symptoms that are gonne forever (like the stock glove feeling, or my hands pumping). I just loose hope when the symptoms appear again. When this happens I imagine my nerves are still regenerating. That is why the pain. Does this make sence? Or is the disease? I just wanna have hope, mrD. Sometimes I do (when I don't feel pain); sometimes I don't (when I feel pain). And this is driving me mad...

By the way, is there anyway of evaluating if one's nociceptors are damage?