Joe my grand pa was detected with peripheral neuropathy at the age of 75.
precisely his condition was Myelinopathies, which affected his basic impulse and nerve control.
This is the main reason that I thought of writing about peripheral neuropathy.
What are peripheral neuropathy symptoms ?
In terms of function, there are commonly loss of sensations, which include gait imbalance, tremor, numbness.
Some over reactive symptoms include itching, pain, crawling, tingling. Pain can become so intense that use of opioid (narcotic) drugs (i.e., morphine, oxycodone) becomes imminent.
Skin can become so hypersensitive that patients are prohibited from having anything touch certain parts of their body, especially the feet. People with this degree of sensitivity cannot have a bedsheet touch their feet or wear socks or shoes, and eventually become housebound.
Motor symptoms include loss of function of weakness, tiredness, heaviness, and gait imbalances; and gain of symptoms like tremor and cramps.
It is also associated with pain in the muscles cramps and gait imbalances.
During examination, those with generalized peripheral neuropathy most commonly have motor or distal sensory loss, though those with a pathological problems with the peripheral nerves may be perfectly normal but sometimes may show proximal weakness, as in some inflammatory neuropathy or may show focal sensory disturbance or weakness.
