Fight Back Against Small Fiber Neuropathy
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I want to come on today and talk about small fiber neuropathy. This is something that's covered under the umbrella of peripheral neuropathy. It normally is in conjunction with a comorbidity. If the treatment that you're getting is not helping, you're still experiencing the same level of pain, numbness, pins and needles, everything.
It could be small fiber neuropathy. It can be debilitating and of course it causes chronic issues, chronic pain, chronic numbness, chronic tinglings. Your quality of life definitely deteriorates when you're living with chronic pain and there are different treatment options.
Most of the treatment options are different medication. However, everybody's different. Everybody responds to medication differently. Our patient advocates at understood care. We want to make sure that you're getting the specific treatments that you need and your doctor understands if something doesn't work, we need to move on to the next step.
There are steps in small fiber neurosopathy treatment. It could include anti-depressants, anti-vulsants, opioid pain medication, nonopioid. It could include physical therapy, occupational therapy. We can make sure you can get to the right therapist. We can work with you in your primary care, but the medication doesn't work with you to get you on to the next step.
We can get you to a specialist. We can make sure that you have the correct testing done to see do we need to determine is it peripheral neuropathy is it idiopathic neuropathy meaning not related to a disease process or do we need to dig deeper to see do you suffer from small fiber neuropathy that may require additional treatment.
Your nervous system is amazingly huge amazingly minute and there's so many fibers. So being able to pinpoint the specific nerves affected is the most important part of treating any neuropathic condition.
