--dizziness can certainly result from some types of autonomic neuropathy, though it can also result from a lot of other causes.

Often, people with autonomic neuropathy can have problems with sweat production and with postural hypotension (a fainting feeling upon changing position too rapidly, as the small autonomic nerves are too damaged to compensate by moving blood around the body quickly), as well as with gastric motility.

Many people with small fiber syndromes have some autonomic involvement (especially if diabetes is the cause), though this is often minor/subclinical:

http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/senso...tml#idiopathic

http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/autonomic.html

Thanks for that Glenntaj I'll check out those links later.

Feeling worse today - my pins & needles symptoms have eased considerably but I have the mother of all headaches!!! So once again I'm spending the day on the sofa.

Might be a good idea to get checked for diabetes/pre-diabetes (5-hr. glucose tolerance test). Swings in blood sugar levels can cause dizziness in some folks, as well as bring on PN.

Thyroid?

Doc

Thanks - I've had blood tests already - I think I was checked for diabetes & thyroid already but I'll double check at my appointment next week.

If all else fails ask them to check your B6 levels... B6 can be toxic and give you peripheral neuropathy

Well - headaches gone this morning but one of my arms feels a bit strange. I went to scratch my nose and ended up poking my eye instead - took 3 attempts to touch my nose, what's that all about then? Is that a symptom of neuropathy or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Small fiber autonomic or sensory neuropathy can effect the cranial nerves and cause problems with dizziness or vertigo by disrupting the signals from the inner ear.

I have small fiber from sarcoidosis that started in 2002. but i can never get my primary care doctor to understand. she blames everything on fibromyalgia and diabetes(the diabetes started in 2010 long after the small fiber neuropathy that started with the sarcoidosis in 2002)

Some doctors are just morons.