Hello all:

My friend's father has been suffering with the above mentioned condition for years. I just went on line to research it and I could only come up with 1 post. Just as I thought, it was one of "those diagnoses" and probably didn't exist. Does anyone know what this is and if there's a natural cure? He's been suffering for almost 30 years with this.

Thanks!!

Paula

Mypidgeon,
You might have found this article "Puzzling over medical mysteries"By Laura Stephenson Carter . May I remind you that when you are serching some natural cure that comes under Holistic Therapies(wholistic therapies).Wholistic Therapy always give impotance on totality of symptoms and come to a conclusion for treatment.So its better to describe the symptoms to find out some remedies for the ailment. Hope to get a clear picture of the ailment as I think u might have seen in the article "Puzzling over medical mysteries"By Laura Stephenson Carter, so many symptoms described and that become a puzzle for the medicos.

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Neuropathy is a disease of the peripheral nervous system. Many people with diabetes eventually develop nerve damage. The three major forms of nerve damage are: peripheral neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, and mononeuropathy. The most common form is peripheral neuropathy, which mainly affects the feet and legs.

Besides diabetes, the common causes of neuropathy are herpes zoster infection, chronic or acute trauma (including surgery) and various neurotoxins. Neuropathic pain is common in cancer as a direct result of the cancer on peripheral nerves (e.g., compression by a tumor) and as a side effect of many chemotherapy drugs.

Neuropathy often results in numbness, abnormal sensations called dysesthesias and allodynias that occur either spontaneously or in reaction to external stimuli, and a characteristic form of pain, called neuropathic pain or neuralgia, that is qualitatively different from the ordinary nociceptive pain one might experience from stubbing a toe or hitting a finger with a hammer. Neuropathic pain is usually perceived as a steady burning and/or "pins and needles" and/or "electric shock" sensations. The difference is due to the fact that "ordinary" pain stimulates only pain nerves, while a neuropathy often results in the firing of both pain and non-pain (touch, warm, cool) sensory nerves in the same area, producing signals that the spinal cord and brain do not normally expect to receive.