Marty, I agree!!!!

My PN is soooo much better this week and I have not gotten to exercise due to company visiting, but I am using my chi machine and it really must be working.

Marty, I too, can not stand in line, it's AWFUL. Even exercise is easier than just standing. And WHY does shopping in a mall make things WAY worse than an hour of full on exercise?????? So weird.

The only thing I can connect it to is the amount of standing done in the mall compared to the amount during exercise (or the amount of blood the pools in the feet and legs while at the mall verses the amount of blood the flows at a higher rate during exercise). I really really wonder if it's not somehow tied to our blood vascular system. (Not the cause of PN but relief)

This is something with PN that does not make sense to me. The pain becomes tolerable when you start walking but once I am done and starting to do simple tasks in the kitchen which requires standing, that I cannot do. BUT, during those days when pain is really bad, both standing and walking are out of the question.

Marty, I noticed you were diagnosed to be gluten sensitive in 2009 -- were your test results positive?

I AGREE!

standing in the kitchen to cook KILLS ME.

But I can walk 2 miles on the treadmill easier, less flare.

weird.

I think it's blood pooling and swelling.

There nerves in the feet have priorities in sending signals.

For example, cold has priority over heat. I would think that proprioception (involved in walking/movement) would have priority over temperature, or else you would fall. (and have injury).

So standing could be very different from walking etc which is constant movement and hence uses different nerves. The pain of sensory nerves is still there but being temporarily masked by the proprioception nerve priorities. People with severe PN eventually lose proprioceptive ability and don't know where their feet are, and at that point, wheelchairs are needed for the most part.

Yes but on the borderline. Other times it has come back negative too.