Painful Neuropathy: Numbness and Tingling of Feet
Suffering with painful neuropathy that keeps you up at night? If you answered “yes”, chances are – you have “poisoned” nerves.
Neuropathy is damage or dysfunction of one or more nerves that typically results in numbness, tingling, muscle weakness and pain in the affected area. neuropathy frequently start in your hands and feet, but other parts of your body can be affected too. neuropathy, often called peripheral neuropathy, indicates a problem within the peripheral nervous system. Your peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves outside your brain and spinal cord. Your brain and spinal cord make up your central nervous system
Neuropathy results when nerve cells, called neurons, are damaged or destroyed. This disrupts the way the neurons communicate with each other and with the brain. Neuropathy can affect one nerve or nerve type, a combination of nerves in a limited area or many peripheral nerves throughout the body.
What does neuropathy feel like?
If you have neuropathy, the most commonly described feelings are sensations of numbness, tingling (“pins and needles”), and weakness in the area of the body affected. Other sensations include sharp, lightening-like pain; or a burning, throbbing or stabbing pain.
What are the symptoms of neuropathy?
Symptoms of neuropathy vary depending on the type and location of the nerves involved. Symptoms can appear suddenly, which is called acute neuropathy, or develop slowly over time, called chronic neuropathy.
When your nervous system goes into overdrive, it activates dangerous pain-triggering enzymes inside your body.
These dangerous enzymes tear away and poison your collagen, skin, muscle, and nerve tissues…
Leading to “pins and needles” pain… swelling, burning, and itching skin… muscle twitching… poor circulation… numbness… and even loss of balance.
Tests/Diagnosis
Your doctor may order tests, including:
- Blood tests. These can detect vitamin deficiencies, diabetes, abnormal immune function and other indications of conditions that can cause peripheral neuropathy.
- Imaging tests. CT or MRI scans can look for herniated disks, pinched (compressed) nerves, tumors or other abnormalities affecting the blood vessels and bones.
- Nerve function tests. Electromyography (EMG) records electrical activity in your muscles to detect nerve damage. A thin needle (electrode) is inserted into the muscle to measure electrical activity as you contract the muscle.At the same time your doctor or an EMG technician obtains an electromyogram, he or she typically performs a nerve conduction study. Flat electrodes are placed on the skin and a low electric current stimulates the nerves. Your doctor will record your nerves’ responses to the electric current.
- Other nerve function tests. These might include an autonomic reflex screen that records how the autonomic nerve fibers work, a sweat test that measures your body’s ability to sweat, and sensory tests that record how you feel touch, vibration, cooling and heat.
- Nerve biopsy. This involves removing a small portion of a nerve, usually a sensory nerve, to look for abnormalities.
- Skin biopsy. Your doctor removes a small portion of skin to look for a reduction in nerve endings.
The good news is – there’s an easy, drug-free method to FLUSH away these pain-triggering enzymes…
So you can naturally restore your poisoned nerves and fight nerve pain in your hands and feet at the source.
And you can do it yourself at home for less than a minute a day:
Credit: Mayor Clinic, et al.
