WOW, I am so blessed to have so many responses to my post. First off, I wanted to give you an update. I went and gave blood this am and swung over to the diabetes educ center - they gave me a new monitor. It is black and small and nice! I am going to really keep track of my BS's.

YorkieMom- so if my B12 test came back normal, do you think I would still benefit from taking injectible B12 and where on earth would I get something like that? LOL - is that a prescription or OTC? I am also going to look in to Sjorgens - I think my doc tested me for that though, cause I know he mentioned it at my appt. Thanks.

RluckyL - currently, the only thing he is doing for the burning pain is Neurotonin (Gabapentin) - he upped/doubled my dose starting today cause that first dose is not working. I am feeling less burning already - I started taking the 2 pills last nite. I hope it continues througout the day, that would be awesome. But it is definataly there, but "less".

LizaJane - I will ask about the skin biopsy too. Wow LisaJane has a lot of info there. I need to get copies of all my stuff from this neurologist. I have copes of all my records up to October 07. THANK YOU for that website!

Brian, I do believe I have been considered "prediabetic" for a few years now, at least 5. Sooooo, perhaps throughout the years, I have had high BS's and not known it, I don't know. But I can tell when it's high for sure when I was pregnant, I really felt AWFUL, I mean BAD. And I know when I feel low and I need to eat. But up until a month ago, my BS's have always been normal when I tested them, which wasn't very often. Sooo, now I am definately doing it all day long to get a better reading of where they are at. I truly do't think I can have PN FROM diabetes, cause I don't have it - my husband has it and I know what it's all about - he's on insulin and OTC meds and uncontrolled most of the time - and it's not pretty when he gets highs and lows. THANK YOU.


and...Glenn, yes, my Spinal MRI's are very interesting. If you really want to see them, here they are below. Now, my neuro did not have any concern over these results even though they are touching spinal cord. But, perhaps that is why I need to get a 2nd opinion after all. I truly think my neck is causing these problems, or perhaps my lumbar area? The weird thing is, two years my lower back had two small herniations L4/L5/S1, facet hypertrophy all over my spine and a tear in the anulus. Now, I have one mild bulge at L4/L5? How can that be?

As for a complete workup - WOW, there is a lot more that can be done. I have bookmarked LJ website and I am going to get everything together, that is awesome. Anyway, thanks for all your information. I did go to those websites and I suppose it could very well be pre-diabetes - that's kind of scary to me - no it IS scary. I told my neuro "I do not have diabetes" at my appt. and so he did not bother to test me for it. My BS's were fine since October cause that is when my Chiro said I should monitor my BS's cause maybe my burning feet were from diabetes. SO I did just that, and they have been normalup until about a week ago.

Here's my MRI results (don't have LUMBAR yet): (warning long LOL )

MRI Thoracic Spine without Contrast.

T1, T2 and T2 fat saturation sagittal sequences, and T1 and T2 weighted axial images were obtained.

The vertebrae are normally aligned. The stature of the vertebral bodies is maintained. Disk spaces appear to be preserved. The spinal cord is of normal signal and morphology.

At T7-8 there is is a small right paramedian protrusion of the nucleus polposus which effaces the ventral aspect of the thecal sac and appears to touch the cord. There is no foraminal stenosis seen.

Impression: Small right paramedian protrusion of the nucleus pulposus at T7-8. This small protrusion appears to touch the ventral aspect of the spinal cord, but there is no evidence of spinal or foraminal stenosis. The spinal cord is unremarkable in appearance and signal.

MRI Cervical Spine without Contrast.

The vertebrae are normally aligned. Stature of the vertebral bodies is maintained. Spinal cord is of normal morphology with exception of ventral impression on the cord in the left paramedian location at C6-7 secondary to moderate protrusion of the nucleus pulposus.

There is no evidence of tonsillar herniation, and the foramen magnum is normal in appearance.

There is mild/moderate broad-based bulging in the disk/endplate complex at C5-6, but this finding does not cause impression on the spinal cord, there is no spinal or foraminal stenosis at this level.

Impression: Significant protrusion of the nucleus pulposus at C6-7, finding is positioned in the left paramedian location and causes mild ventral impression on the spinal cord. It is also possible that this finding may impinge the traversing left C8 root. Otherwise unremarkable MRI of the cervical spine.