Alice
 

I am 79 years old and believe I developed peripheral neuropathy several years ago following the Zostavax vaccine at the continued urging of my doctor. I never had chickenpox as a child and did not know why I had to get the vaccine but was urged to get it any way. No one in my entire family ever had peripheral neuropathy and so I can pretty much R/O inherited causation.

It started with just the very tops of both feet losing feeling to touch and presently both feet and lower legs feel like I am touching them through some sort of stocking. When I "wiggle" my feet they feel like I am meeting with Resistance like my feet are tightly wrapped with something like an ace bandage.

I have never experienced leg cramping before this happened to me but at night I have awakened with horrible unusual leg cramps in the outer parts of my legs. The only way I can prevent the night cramps is to take daily heavy doses of vitamin B12.

I noted a post from Kip dated Nov of 2017 and that led me to sign up to find additional information.

Hi Alice

Welcome to NeuroTalk :).

If you describe your experiences in the PN forum (https://www.neurotalk.org/forum20/), which is very active, I expect that you will get support and helpful suggestions from other members.

Best wishes.