Do any of you know of any connection between Vitamin D deficiency and neuropathy?

read this:

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf...93?cookieSet=1

Mark here has already posted benefits since he started Vit D
supplements.

but I couldn't open the link.

I started to take vitamin D 2 days ago.

It is a PDF...if you don't have Adobe reader?

try it again, maybe a glitch?

The article is about Vit D healing damaged axons.

I can't open the link either, and I do have Adobe Reader, even the new updated Reader 9. It says our computers do not accept cookies, but that isn't true either...I think it may be a bad link.

I would like to read about neuropathy and Vitamin D though. Thanks

I have Mozilla as a browser and it opens it.
I got this link from another forum, and we cannot link to there.

I don't know how to copy PDFs either.
here is a quote from it that was posted at the other place:
I don't understand why I can open the link and others cannot.

Doses are not discussed for humans. It remains a good idea to get tested to see where you stand. If you self medicate you may take too little to see benefit.
But many people that post on boards with chronic pain issues are seeing low levels come back from testing, and improvement with D3 supplements. (D2 is less effective)

I have ankel and knee pain that I thought was just arthritis that was getting worse, but a supervisor suggested neoropathy because I am in so much pain all the time. I do not have insurance to go to the doctor unless I absolutely have to. Can anyone out there explain what it is.

Neuropathic pain may be severe or not, the difference between it and other pain is that neuropathic pain is caused by problems with nerves themselves. In other types of pain the nerves act to carry the pain message; in neuropathic pain, the nerves are themselves the sources of pain. The quality of neuropathic pain is different: people describe it as burning, tingling, stinging, jangling. Sometimes the location of the pain is hard to pin down. Neuropathic pain doesn't usually respond to traditional painkillers.

(Hope this helps. I'm not an expert, other than experiencing it!)

See the 'sticky's' at the top of the topics page.
Go to the links suggested there. There's a bit, so take your time
and just read the ones that are of most interest to you.
There is a wealth of information about all facets of PN.

You need to go to the doctor to see if you have some inflammatory reactions going on in the knee and/or ankle.
Xrays and some blood work.

There is a pain syndrome that some people get when injured, even a minor sprain. It is called reflex sympathetic dystrophy and we have a forum on it as well.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum21.html

Arthritis or tendonitis in the knee can refer down the leg. So you need to find out what is going on there. You can even have back problems that refer to the knee. You cannot self diagnose at this point.

Any injured nerve can be called a neuropathy. But many here have a more generalized version that attacks the whole body in some way, not just one knee and ankle. So please do get some medical evaluation to start with.