Well, from what has been posted over the years here, the acute situations have a better outcome. Many posters have left over the last decade as they improved. Illness, viral reactions, are the most common that I have seen here.

The chronic ones remain just that ...chronic.

Lynn that is not a very detailed impression section on your emg/ncs. For instance mine states a severe large fiber axonal sensory motor peripheral neuropathy with demyelination. ASk the doctor that did it is it primalrily axonal with demyelination caused by degenerating axons or demelinating causing axonal damage by the degeneration of the myelin sheath.

I have no statistics but after years of reading posts i havent read of too many peripheral neuropathies with unknown cause getting better. it does happen though.

I have had PN specialists tell me what Mrs. D has written that the prognosis for chronic long term peripheral neuropathies is not good. Too much systemic long term damage to recover, even if the cause is ameliorated.

Thanks Echoes Long Ago,

I know he did not give me much information on the report, I didn't know alot about PN when he told me. I have learned more on the forum. and plan on asking a lot more questions. I did ask him how bad the nerve damage is. All he said is that it is significant, because it's not just affecting the sensory nerves but also the motor nerves. That doesn't give me much to go on right now and I don't go back till July for another NCV. Why the long wait I'm not really sure.

I would start doing things now to improve.... That is a long wait til next July....

He stated in his comments...nutrients. You can start there.

Cut way back on sugar and simple carbs. Eat the Mediterranean diet or The Zone Diet for good fats and adequate proteins.

Get rid of any drugs that cause PN... see my thread in the SubForum above. Check out my Supplements for PN thread up there too.

Eating sugar can really make PN feel much much worse. It has to do with insulin spikes and basic metabolism. I'd get rid of high fructose corn syrup --now called corn sugar-- also.

Many posters here over the years have posted improvements by just eliminating sugar. Sounds simple, but it works.

Thanks Mrs. D,

I have to admit I do drink to many things with sugar and caffine in them. My diet I would say is not terrible but also has not been perfect lately due to a lot of stress and I mean alot of stress. I could use some improvement. I will try to watch my sugar intake, but I don't know about giving up the morning caffinated coffee though. I know stress can make PN symptoms worse, but I've been wondering lately if it can actually cause peripheral neuropathy? I haven't found any solid evidence online suggesting that it can.