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Old 10-03-2014, 10:39 PM #1
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My neuro diagnosed me in 6 months. I was lucky I had someone who really listened. 6-7 mins is a very short appt. Both my neuro amend rheumo give me at 20 mins.

You may have already said but are you seeing your GP for this or a neuro?
A big head of a department Neuro-probably not that great. Down south there is a HUGE shortage of doctors and excellent customer service.
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Default I am also curious--
--what is meant by a "skin distrubance"?

Obviously, there are a lot of skin conditions that can produce all sorts of unusual sensory sensation by affecting the nerves, but these don't start in the nerves, and are different from, say, a small-fiber neuropathy that produces numbness or parastheses (disturbed sensations) through direct damage to the nerves.

Do you have any evident rash, or discoloration?
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--what is meant by a "skin distrubance"?

Obviously, there are a lot of skin conditions that can produce all sorts of unusual sensory sensation by affecting the nerves, but these don't start in the nerves, and are different from, say, a small-fiber neuropathy that produces numbness or parastheses (disturbed sensations) through direct damage to the nerves.

Do you have any evident rash, or discoloration?
I guess it is a catch all and they are not going to diagnose by physical exam.
No evidence of rash or discoloration.
Not sure what is going on with their diagnosis:disturbance of skin sensation.

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You really need a skin biopsy to confirm or rule out small fiber neuropathy.

Not much can be done in 5-7 minutes...except ask for the biopsy maybe.
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You really need a skin biopsy to confirm or rule out small fiber neuropathy.

Not much can be done in 5-7 minutes...except ask for the biopsy maybe.
So, how soon will the damage show up on a skin biopsy?
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It is probably too soon for a biopsy.

If the dorsal roots are causing the pain (like from viruses), the biopsy would not show damage for quite a while. Long term damage from the dorsal roots along the spine, will cause atrophy in the periphery.(this has been shown in animals so far).

The explanation is in our dorsal root thread in the subforum.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread147771.html

This is a collection of diagrams of the dorsal roots from Google images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dors...ed=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
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So, how soon will the damage show up on a skin biopsy?
It may be too soon for fiber density to be significantly and abnormally low...but the condition of the fibers them self, might (and I think likely would) show swelling and/ or segmented & tortuous fibers...and indication that nerve damage exists.

If it's in the dorsal root, you may not find proof just yet.
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I guess it is a catch all and they are not going to diagnose by physical exam.
No evidence of rash or discoloration.
Not sure what is going on with their diagnosis:disturbance of skin sensation.

Thanks so much.
My guess would be that "disturbance of skin sensation" might be a description for something like insurance coding. I used to always see "numbness" written in my records but I've never had numbness or described anything near it; I finally assumed that it was a word that just fit neatly in whatever checklist they were using.
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