As a fellow Scot I have to agree , unless your problems are life threatening or pretty basic , your just going to get told to live with it and some meds, I cant imagine being able to get even a quater of the tests here through National Hell-th Service.

m

No but I had prolotherapy with it back in 99 which is what began my downward spiral.

I doubt its toxicity ( though I did ingest potassium cyanide the year before in 98) which probably didnt help

m

Hi I have had two Lidocaine infusions about three years ago, the first one worked for about three days the second one didn't and I had some side effects with the second, the consultant decided to go ahead an try me on the mexilitine, I was fine when I was on the low dosage but when I got to the maximum dose I was passing out and generally felt awful, that was when they thought it was PN I had but my condition has got worse and I have now been diagnosed with small fibre sensory neuronopathy, I have just joined this site in the hope I can get some information about my condition as it is very rare and can't find very much about it. Ihope the information was of some help to you.

Welcome to NeuroTalk:

Neuronopathy is a form of neuropathy, which attacks the cells in the dorsal root gangla.

http://www.penncancer.org/pnd/subpag...1&ss=23&sss=14

Here is our thread on that...http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread147771.html
the first post on this thread explains the new MRI imaging that can be done to visualize this.

Toxins, drugs, viruses and vaccines are thought to be the main culprits. But autoimmune disease and other things may also cause it.

In some people the cells can regenerate, but if the growth factors are genetically missing, this becomes permanent.
Stem cells are being researched for this problem but are not available yet.