Does it take longer to heal?
 

Hi y'all! (New photo from my daughter! She said the other one made me look like a grandma, Well, duh, I am a grandma!) This one is only a week old, taken by her cell phone.

Anyway, I scraped my hand on a box, while assembling toys for my granddaughters birthday party last week. Normally it would have scabbed over and healed by now. However, now that I have PN in my feet and hands, this is the first time I've cut myself in my hand. It took almost five days to scab over, and it seemed to start to get infected a bit before it scabbed over. It finally scabbed over, and it's only the size of a dime, not a big scrape, and not very deep. Of course it doesn't hurt, there isn't much feeling in that part of my hand. I guess I should have put antibiotic on it right away, but I didn't realize how insensitive my hands were until this incedent.

Just wondering if any of you have experienced the same. Slow healing of PN affected areas? My PN is Idiopathic, so it is not Diabetic related... not circulation related.

Thanks,

Terri

Slow healing is pretty common with some systemic PN.

On the other hand, many who have some peripheral problems as a side effect of central nervous system damage heal great.

rose

I heal great, including my feet.

I do tend to heal more slowly on certain parts of may body since the neuropathy began
 

--but not on others; my hands, for instance, heal very rapidly, by my lower exteremities, less so. And I have full body acute onset small-fiber problems with symptoms everywhere, so it's hard to attribute this to length-dependent die-back factors--ESPECIALLY as my skin biopsies have been showing slow re-enervation.

This may have little to do with neuropathy, of course--it can be due to many other factors, including circulatory ones that are not neurologically based. (I wondered if I may have the beginnings of peripheral artery disease, but given my exercise levels and low triglycerides, the endocrinologist doesn't think that's too likely.)

I do suspect, though, that many with "idiopathic" small or mixed-fiber syndromes might have patchy healing problems due to circulation compromise, as the autonomic fibers that control blood vessel expansion/dilation are of the small-fiber variety, and some may be damaged. It is not uncommon for people with painful small-fiber neuropathies to have autonomic symptoms (blood pressure, sweating abnormalities, etc.), though these are typically mild (often "sub-clinical"), and if that's the case, it's not hard to imagine some patchy blood vessel compromise that might slow healing.

Hey
 

Well pretty grandmom, i would ask your family Dr.for a 12 hr. fasting test,
I have polynueropathys..And watch those toys they get ya everytime
:) :) Many blessings Sue