Maybe not completely, and it may take a very long time (years, as mentioned above), but it can happen.

And I also can attest personally to this fact. Years, and it can be a wild ride.

Peripheral nerves can repair more quickly and are more likely to repair more completely.

All this, of course, assumes that the damage isn't continuing.

rose

I agree with lizajane. I have found a slow, but definite improvement in my PN through yoga and weight bearing exercises for my calves and upper legs. Is this axonal regeneration? I don't know, but I feel better. I do support the "use it or lose it " mantra.

I've read that people with demyelinating neuropathy can have very rapid regeneration, because the nerves are essentially intact, and they only need to make the sheath. But axonal is more complicated, because the nerves have to figure out where to grow to and connect on their own. It's probably a way simplified explanation, but it helped me visualize what needs to happen.

Seriously,
Thats one of the easiest to understand explanations on how nerves may regrow that have vanished - re-mylinating makes sense - but having to grow new nerves from nothing I truly did not understand...
Thanks

The axons of nerves aren't made of anything special, mainly just phospolipids with some filamentous proteins for support that stretch out forever covered in myelin.

But if they are completely gone - what I didnt think was that they would ever grow back.... I know to remylinate is to bascially recover them......

There are images online depicting axonal regeneration. It's like how mitosis goes, making something out of nothing.

YOu seem to answer your own questions, and others with some authority...yet, pose ignorance at other aspects?

I for one, and I may be an only idividual, find it either patronzing or, well, ,,,let's not got there....

Put up or shut up time...I will not hesitate to call in 'mods', but,IF'nyou do not give us all more in the way of specifics, I'm now inclined to believe that you mite be some kind of 'shopper'.. Frankly, I want to help you, but, I've sparse to go on, and less to give you personal feedback to bounce off of.

I understand the need to keep 'things simple' on the 'net. I have been a victim of the more egregious form of identity theft - that of 'adoptons' where an idividual has, to date, gotten more than 30K using my address and I've THAT to deal with as well as PN...The debt collectors are ...welll amazing?

Back to BT/NT tho...Can't really give you useful info, w/o basics in terms of ONSET, Meds,, Tests, etc. all relevant in terms of what WE ALL can bounce off of? Reply to....and provide our own experiences in relation to? This is a GIVE and TAKE relationship...Soo, dear person... GIVE???????? -j

Why is it you feel I answered my own questions? Why would I pose a question I had the answer to?
Why is a shopper, and why such hostility? The mods? Oh no! Anything but that. What will you say, I'm breaking a rule you made up?
You, yourself, seem quite ignorant believing that I have all the knowledge there is on a particular subject, when I have other scratched the surface.

Hi folks...

I just wanted to pop in to this thread just to remind everyone that it's very easy to misunderstand another persons tone and intent when reading threads because all we have are typed words on a page.

We don't get to hear a tone of voice, or see a facial expression, or read body language when we read a post from someone, so that makes it easy to have misunderstandings.

So, try to keep that in mind when you write your own posts and when you read posts from other people. Misunderstandings will happen. It's part of human nature. It's how we handle those misunderstandings that is the most important thing.

Thank you all,
Liz
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