Is .......
 

Idiopathic SFN (Small Fibre Neuropathy) the same as CIAP (Chronic Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy)?

I know it seems like a dumb question and I should know it, but can someone clarify this for me please! :o

Not necessarily.
 

Small fiber neuropathy is by definition axonal--the smallest fibers are unmyelinated or only have the thinnest myelin sheathing on them (the latter are the A fibers)--but there can be axonal (as in the nerve fibers themselves are attacked, rather than their "insulation") neuropathy of larger, myelinated fibers as well. So, in sense, many types of SFN would be a subset of the larger realm of CIAP.

The Washington University neruomuscular website is good with these distinctions:

http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/NEUROMUSCULAR/naltbrain.html

Glen thanks you beat me to the punch...Meg honest there are no dumb
or stupid guestions,just ask for the right direction,someone will point
you there,if you still don't understand,ask again,that's how we all learn/
Thanks to all for your help...And hugs to all Sue