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Old 09-07-2015, 09:17 AM #1
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I think you can assume the feet would be affected, if your hands are. My feet started way before my hands became affected.

When I finally got the thyroid hormone both improved about 80%.
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Salt encrusted right hand looked the same.
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When I was done with this test, I had hubby rub into my back shoulder some of the Aspercreme Lidocaine, as I had a spasm there that was driving me nuts. I also noticed that I had Tinel's in my right wrist badly as well. So I rubbed the cream into my inner wrist before bedtime. This morning the buzzing is gone and I can type MUCH better with fewer mistakes! So I am going to make the wrist my target nightly for a while. I just used a little bit.
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I think you can assume the feet would be affected, if your hands are. My feet started way before my hands became affected.

When I finally got the thyroid hormone both improved about 80%.
IS there reason to bother with this test if your biopsy came back positive?
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No I don't think so for the most part.

But some people here have had their PN improve and the later
biopsies show improvement too.

So you could do this test, yearly, on your hands and see if you
have some wrinkling occur, and then you might be one of the lucky ones to have improvement. (rather than another expensive biopsy.)
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No I don't think so for the most part.

But some people here have had their PN improve and the later
biopsies show improvement too.

So you could do this test, yearly, on your hands and see if you
have some wrinkling occur, and then you might be one of the lucky ones to have improvement. (rather than another expensive biopsy.)
I Actually had 4% lidocaine aspercreme here. Put some on my finger and big toe for 30 mins and no wrinkling at all. So, that would indeed confirm the positive biopsy I received. Seems like this is a pretty good barometer.
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