Hi all,

I just wondered how your IPN first started--the initial symptoms and the circumstances that may have precipitated them.

Initial Symptoms: Mine were innocuous. I developed slight tingling at the end of the fingers on my left hand. Over a few weeks/months symptoms of numbness/paresthesia spread to feet and legs.

The Context: I had started weight lifting and the tingling definitely seemed to stem from this. I was on a fitness trip and had also started taking cold showers every day.

This fitness trip followed two years of high stress-losing parents and problems at work.

The weight-lifting and the cold showers definitely seemed to be the immediate triggers for the disease-like they "stressed" the nerves in my body.

I wonder how long it takes for IPN to develop from damage into symptoms--and whether how it would have unfolded without these triggers.

P