I’ve had severe burning low back pain, skipping heart beat, shortness of breath , severe memory issues, and anxiety depression and found out I had anemia (b12 and folate deficiency) For 2 yrs I would be at my doctors crying and they just say nothing wrong. No one ever checking my levels. Finally my insurance allowed me to go to a neurologist and found my RDW was 16.9 and with further tests realized I had malabsorption anemia. I’m in the early recovery process and pray my pain will lessen. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. 😩😔😭
Thalamic stroke. The central nervous system pain is horrid. Pain that I describe as not human, being tortured and electrocuted, set on fire, being stabbed over and over, then tied behind car and dragged on a hot sidewalk in August. I'm in pain everyday. Nighttime pain is the worst, I call it "temperature pain". By 6 PM, I have to have everything done and in bed. My legs go straight and feet pointed curled into each other. My left side I can't move at all. I can feel the burning, acid, electric current running through my body, spine to brain. I lay there looking up at the ceiling taking tiny little breaths as tears leak out of my eyes. This can last for 10 minutes to hours of torment. The thalamic central nerve pain is devastating diagnosis. I also have other complications from the stroke but central pain rules my life. I spend time thinking of others that go through this horrid pain and how it affects them, their relationship, and how they try to survive. I surely can't be alone. ❤
I have neuropathy in my feet for the past 10+ years. Doctor tried 3 different meds. The first helped for about 3-4 years then it quit working. I switched to a second antidepressant med and I started having violent dreams. I stopped it quickly. The 3rd med I took about 6 months and it tooo stopped working. Gold bond Lotion, cool water foot baths , and heat pad to my lower back gives some relief. I personally think I have a pinched nerve in my lower back. Some days I have pain running down from my lower back threw my butt and down my legs to my feet. I went to a foot specialist and mapped my nerves from my knees to my feet and said the nerves were not working from just below my knees to my feet. Then he told me where was nothing he could do for me. I started taking high doses of vitamins B’s and it reducing my pain by about 20% . I do not drink alcohol, don’t had diabetes, don’t have hiv, no spinal damage except arthritis in my lower back. I saw a back surgeon and he said I didn’t need surgery. He told me to strengthen my lower back muscles. I’m doing that. That helped my lower back pain but did nothing for my feet. You have any ideas?
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Don't take my word for it because I'm no professional. But I was diagnosed with neuropathic last year with no known cause. I was placed on meds which worked until I stopped them. When I saw that doctors didn't seem to care much about my problem, I took matters into my own hands and did some digging. I observed that corn or any food containing corn, fruits, chicken, groundnuts, egg, bread, etc made the pain worse so I stopped taking those things. Ever since I stopped, I've experienced a marked improvement in my overall health. Now, I'm not trying to say you should stop those foods too, all I'm saying is just observant of what you eat. Some of them might be triggering the pain.
This was super helpful and so clearly explained. I have HIV neuropathy and the ants description was spot on. Also have the shocks and sleep challenges. Your video placed things in perspective for me. Thank You! All the way from Cape Town, South Africa
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I have trigeminal neuralgia type 2 and also neuropathic pain from herniated lumbar and cervical disc, not to mention several kinds of arthritis. I appreciate your videos, they are very well done and informative. Could you do a video on trigeminal neuralgia and include the type 2 which causes constant pain. Thank you very much, this would be helpful in trying to explain to others what it is that I experience on a daily basis.
Even though I’m living through it, I didn’t connect the dots. But at time stamp 9:35 you gave me a puzzle piece, now I see the whole picture. I’ve been dealing with back pain since October of 1978. I suffered from a ruptured brain aneurysm and stroke; then fell off the roof of my two story house. I was in a coma for two weeks, then rehab for 118 days. I’m disabled now, but I’ve gone trough five brain surgeries and four back surgeries. But my back pain was astir baited after my TBI, from the fall. I’ve have a recent MRI through my pain management doctor, it showed that I need to have a DNC cleaning from scare tissue in my epidural canal. Plus I do have arthritis in the spine to boot. Back to my TBI, it was so severe that I had to mourn my mother’s death a second time. I had to relearn to walk, talk, swallow…… everything. But I was so out of it, I removed my own feeding tube because I kept catching it in the bed sheets. I asked a doctor, he replied oh, you don’t need that. So I removed the sown in feeding tube before I had passed a swallow test. My whole past life was wiped out, gone. I knew my name and date of birth, that’s it. I actually thought I was in prison instead of the hospital. I did manage to escape one day, and the orderlies caught up with me at the frontage road of Interstate 35, with just a hospital gown and bare feet.
Oh my! I feel your pain. Some of us are just unlucky. However, it could be worse, perhaps dead? God is with you in your trying time, always and forever. I pray there be a miracle for you.
Hi Dr. Furlan, I have been diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and cervical degenerative disc disease, and I constantly have a tension like headache, my scalp is tender to the touch, I am sensitive to the weather temperature, I feel tired...Can you make a video talking about occipital neuralgia symptoms, diagnoses and treatment? I thank you very much
Neuropathic pain management is ridiculously poor and has not progressed at all in the last 50 years. Nerve modulation works in some cases but is mostly a solution that just masks the pain and causes tons of complications ( and tons of money to the big pharma, kickbacks to doctors). Pathetic poor progress for such a widespread debilitating problem.
I actually find gym very helpful with nueropathic pain, it has to be pretty high intensity though. I recently got med free, by using gym and tens (with occasional panadol)
Yessss Brandon, I’m glad to see this comment. When a person exercises they release many substances that are good for their bodies, including endorphins which are powerful analgesics. Check my video #142 The Brain’s Inner Pharmacy ua-cam.com/video/2t1EnpoWlXo/v-deo.htmlsi=yHneeLNgPMiNQIzz
I have been suffering from the worst.pain ever..diabetic neuropathy, 15yrs on and the only meds that l get relief from is very strong narcotics meds..morphine ..l was put on about 15 different types of meds..now l have to be on Lyrica and morphine in order to have some normalcy in may life. I had a very hard time trying to find a Dr. In a pain clinic that is now treating me and if wasn't for his help..l would have ended my life...l wish this pain on no one..stabbing, electricAl. Shock, skin burning as if very hot scotch bonnet pepper touches it, numbing, freezing , at times feels as if fireworks in may feet..l love to watch fireworks but l do not want it in my.feet especially around my ankles, l have on control itching and in the middle of a heatwave my feet will feel as if its in the middle of winter..feeling as if its minus 40..plus twitches. Hope that all who us suffering with chronic pain as. Able to find a Dr who will help them in getting relief.
Praying that you have found a doctor who can help you ! My ortho suggested Alpha lipoic Acid as a supplement and Vitamin B Complex. Those have helped me most early on . I also completely changed my diet and use many different modalities and other supplements to try to get some relief. Avoiding gluten, reducing red meat and dairy, low sodium and no sugar diet etc.
Dr. I developed Neuropathic pain and Anti Inflammatory pain ever since I suffered after an attack of Meningococcal Meningitis 42years back. I also was operated for Carpal tunnel syndrome. I am on Gaba 100mg and Panadol who h helps in my relief, but only for a short time. I use Deep heat for relief. The pain is in my while body. Extremely painful, Dr. Andrea.
My problems with pain has destroyed my life. I have degenerative disk disease. I have had carpal tunnel surgery on both wrist. But it's is the neuropathic pain which controls my life. In Sept 2008 I felt a bite on the back of my left leg. I had been working on a log home of a friend. When I got home 6 or 7 hours later I took off my jeans to put shorts on and I had a rash that had spread though my left leg. The VA told me to go to the nearest hospital. 12 years later and it's only worst. The medical community has not been much help. I have bad dreams about this. Sleep is difficult. I wake up to pain and as I type this I am in pain. I quit drinking years ago because the VA gave me opioids I quit smoking weed many years earlier. I don't like being impaired. Never smoked tobacco. I am diabetic since about 2014 or 15. And I have a copd issue. The VA has failed me. They fail to see that all my health issues started after the tick bite Sept 2008. They tell me it's not lyme and that we do not get lyme here in the Carolina's. I showed them a picture from the CDC's website that shows ticks hitchhiking on migrating birds. They say I don't have lyme. I am not sure I believe anything they tell me. Please correct me if I am wrong , but with small fiber neuropathy isn't a skin or nerve biopsy the correct test . The rash was diagnosed as cellulitis ( they did not test for lyme ) and I was off my feet for 3 weeks. And taking antibiotics. I did not have a lyme test til 18 months after the bite on my leg. I also am still feeling the effects from covid. 8 days in the hospital in April. Half of that in the ICU. The nursing staff are heroes.
Dear Robert, thank you for sharing your story with me. I really feel sorry for all your pains and lack of diagnosis. I had a pain in my lower back in January this year and a rash going down the back of my tight. It was varicela zoster. I took pictures and I did another video (ua-cam.com/video/HknuhSFtG_U/v-deo.html) It is hard for me to give you medical advice, becuase I do not have all the details. I hope you understand that. I'm glad you recovered well from Covid and I am glad the nurses were helpful. I pray that God will bless your life and that you can find a physician who will help you to find a proper diagnosis.
Ticks can give you lyme and a whole host of other illness. Had lyme in the 90s undiagnosed 3 years and last year had anaplasmosis, that was bad and im still suffering various symptoms. You need a physician familier with tick disease. I had to go on antibiotic intravenously for a month, dont let these people tell you there is nothing wrong. They are clueless. Good luck
Thanks Dr. Furlan. I just had my ankle surgery last April 21, 2022. After the nerve block or anesthesia wore off, I experienced burning pain in my foot. Repositioning the foot relieved the pain but after a week, i experienced some sort of electrical pain or throbbing pain, it seemed to be coming from the nerves. this pain was much worse than what i experienced pre surgery. much worse than any pain i have experienced in my entire life. My doctor prescribed pregabalin to me. When I saw pregabalin in your video, that was the time i realized what pain i was experiencing. Thank you for your helpful video.
Hello I have post operative neuropathic pain after a Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aorta Injury. I got into a pedestrian vs motor vehicle accident at the age of ten. I suffered a broken tibia/fibula and to repair I have metal plates and screws in my lower leg. The screws have been poking far out enough to where it is visible underneath my skin. I had a open heart surgery for an aortic rupture and a Dacron graft was sewn over my aortic. I have lived with neuropathic pain for 14 years now that I am turning 24 this July. It is the same chronic pain that occurs randomly even when I am not moving. A sharp repetitive shooting stabbing like pain that persists for hours, days, weeks, months, and years. A numb tingling feeling always on my left side. Back and Abdominal pain. A burning and electric shock sensation. And it have drastically affected my quality of life. I started on Gabapentin and increased my dosage gradually over a period of 6 month. It did not have any effect. I moved to Cymbalta with no effect. Then Tramadol 100mg with very minimal effect. The doctors would not prescribe me anything stronger than tramadol and I live in constant pain longer than I have lived a normal life. What can I do?
I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome from surgeries on my foot. I was allergic to the nickel in the screws and plates so it had to come out. Your sensations sound alot like CRPS that I experience, Many doctors do not recognize it,but you are taking some of the same mediations I am on. If they do not help enough ask about supplements to take as well. Alpha Lipoic acid, Vitamin B complex, Quercetin with Bromelain are some of the supplements that are giving me some relief and were suggested by my Ortho and Dietician. I have used quite a few different modalities to help and sometimes Epsom Salt soaks help. Changing my diet to exclude inflammatory foods,increase magnesium in my diet, and eliminate gluten . That does take commitment and 6 months to a year, but the inflammation is reduced in the body and helps with neuropathy,chronic pain, and migraines sometimes. I hope you can advocate for yourself and open up conversations with your doctors about these alternative options. Best Wishes to you!
I've been having stabbing/shooting pain that feels like a painful pulsating pain that lasts a few seconds. It can happen any where in my body. Randomly. And sometimes i feel my muscles twich and feel pain. It started years back as migran pain in my head and over the years its gotten worse and now i feel it all over my body. Even my finger tips. And i also feel a sensation of numbness that also goes away after a few seconds or minutes. Being extremely fatigued recently. Could this type of pain also be considered as a neuropathic pain? Should i be going to the doctor.
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Helow. I was diagnosed with Arnold syndrome for having a flat back. Is it a neuropathic pain and how to treat it? Could you make a video on the aftermath of Harrington's barbell spinal fusion? Thank You.
Thank you for your knowledge and taking time to create these useful videos. Much appreciated. 😊 What are the tests that can diagnose pain causes like fibromyalgia? Or other neuro based pains?
Thank you very much for this very educational & very much helpful video. Your facts and visual aids are very reliable and very clear. Your presentation is very graceful and very upbuilding. "Can provide a video about "Multiple Sclerosis"? Thank you very much and God bless you all always.
I’ve was diagnosed with small fibre neuropathy by dr Richard Leckey two years ago. It started in feet and is spreading up my legs and is in my hands now. Am on gabapentin but it’s not helping much. What else can I do for the pain?
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What help uf i agree to have injection bec of the pain in my hips all the way to my left legs...im really scared of the side effect of the medication...i was advice to have injection ...
Very informative. I watched your video on gabapentin. I was switched to pregabalin when gabapentin no longer was effective. Eventually, my dose went to 300mg 2 times a day. I was dizzy at times so I asked the doctor to switch back to gabapentin. I should have left well enough alone. I will be going back to pregabalin. I have numbness, in my left leg. a feeling of being stung by a hornet, sharp searing stabs. Sometimes one sometimes by a hundred hornets on my left leg. prickling stabbing and burning pain in my feet, I didn't see a video on pregabalin. I have idiopathic neuropathy. Will you be doing something on pregabalin? It would be very interesting to watch.
Hy mrs dr.furlan i am not understand more english i have a neuropathic pain in right hip side in nerve damage in an accident and surgery the hip and joint but not to be joint fracture but in pain in whole side the surgery time is 15 year and now my age is 34 and am very difficult to complete my work
I am having disc bulge at L4 and L5 and i am paiin in my leg while walking to a short distance۔Now i am having left arm pain shooting heavily and gets ok after a long time۔What it indicates۔Please clarrify
Hi I am Aftab from Pakistan my age is 25 year I am feeling burning feet and muscle pain.muscle pain starts when I use some antibiotics after calcium and vitamin d effects my arms and legs muscle I have no diabetes I asked my doctor he gave me vitamin b12 I used vitamin b12 one day and my pain progress and my shoulder start pain all this is due to medicine sideffect my all test is normal ESR crp CPK vitamin b12 rft lft all normal what this is problem?
Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I have another video about shingles. I don't have the ability to give medical advice here because I am not able to get all the details that I need and most importantly, to examine you. I don't give individual medical advice via social media or by email. This channel is for educational purposes only. Please talk to your doctor. Have you seen my website yet? Check it out www.doctorandreafurlan.com
Would it be possible for you to do a video on how to help people with auto-immune neuropathies? I have small fiber polyneuropathy with autonomic involvement suspected to be related to the elevated levels of FGFR-3 auto-antibodies that I have in my system. I can only find 9 or so articles in the literature that are recent on this topic and none are addressing how to handle this kind of neuropathy differently. Washington University lists it as related to Sjogren's Syndrome and Lupus and says axonal loss without regeneration..... I am receiving IVIG for this but I am not sure it is worth it for the benefit I am receiving yet. I have been sick for a long time though - for 12 years or so...and have only been on IVIG since last May. I'd like it if this topic could be covered by you. You have a unique and great perspective with both an academic and medical background.
After stress more than 10 years ago, I started having glossalgia. Just a burning pain, as if scalded with boiling water. Inflammation of the trigeminal nerve began 3 years ago, as well as lower back pain and burning, shooting pain in the leg and chills. It lasted a very long time and I was prescribed lyrics, then citalopram. A few months later, the antidepressant was able to overcome glossalgia. But after the abolition of the antidepressant glossalgia returned. Over time, it got better. But from severe stress, the pain of the tongue begins again. Why does this pain occur? What is the origin of this pain? Neuropathic? Fibromyalgia? It hurts even when the tongue touches the teeth! Burns and burns.
I have a burning sensation in my left hand and I even lost sensation in the same hand. I was diagnosed with Arthritis last year May and on Indocin treatment but no changes. I don't know what to do now😔
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Hello I live in Australia. I have a chronic condition, diagnosed as Fibromyalgia. If you see me here, can you please suggest anything I can get to treat pain, insomnia and IBS/constipation. I believe Fibromyalgia has been found to come from neurological pathways…
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Hi there, I am suffering with a really bad neuropathy due to chemotherapy (Oxaliplatin) and had tried almost every medication prescribed with no help at all with my symptoms. symptoms like, numbness, burning sensation, pin and needles, glove stocking, electric shocks, feeling like walking on marbles or golf balls, also in my hands. My symptoms are from my feet up to my knees, and my hands up to my elbows. All started from my toes and fingers back in May 2017 during and after chemo treatment and slowly was progressing to the point I am now. Any specific webinar related to this? or any suggestions? thank you
Explain did you ever got a patient with ringing ear , facial itching, nerve tingling on head and face , tooth and face pain , all trigeminal neuralgia symptoms with horrible ringing ear, ever recovered
Hi I live in w.v. And would appreciate a recommendation for some to help with spinal injury and neuropathy. Can you provide a clinic. I am willing to travel. Toronto is a bit far though.. love your videos and thanks for being there. Gretch
Hello doctor good morning . I am not diabetic but Iam suffering with peripheral neuropathy . Iam on gabapentin 600 mg four tablets for a day . Please advice .
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This is exactly what I am suffering from for 10 years now. all the symptoms are the same in my case. I live in Africa, The Gambia but doctors here can’t tell me what’s wrong. I had two surgeries for nail information because the pain is underneath my nail but the pain always comes back. I need help.
This may be CRPS from your surgeries, not many doctors recognize it. I live in the USA and it was my physical therapist who identified it then eventually I was referred to pain specialist who confirmed it. It took 5 months from physical therapist identifying it, to visiting my ortho and doctors, and then finally seeing pain specialist. This was 2021. If you can research CRPS or RSD on line to compare what you feel and experience to those symptoms of CRPS/RSD. The sites also can possibly direct you to a doctor or specialist in your area good luck!
It's terrible. Docs know nothing. I^m my best doc on this. I trashed all the meds. They were only giving me very bad side effects. Like total amnesia. Impossible to exist on them.
I just had a severe bout of shingles on my arm, hand and fingers. Now I am left with the post herpetic neuralgia, mostly in my hand inside and out and every fingers all around. I am only taking cbd for pain. I did not find that Tylenol and gabapentin were effective. Oddly enough, what works best to reduce the pain is to apply a gentle pressure on the painful areas or run water on it warm or cold works fine. I will up my vitamins and magnesium and see what happens. I am 59 years old female, so I was at risk for this nerve pain - which was totally unknown to me until I got the shingles. I have never seen such pain in my life, I was literally screaming in the hospital when I got these attacks which only lasted less than a minute. Those didn’t last very long, thank God, I was ready to get my whole arm amputated Arghhh. It’s been a month since I started my shingles and should not have waited so long to get medical attention. I ended up on an IV for a week in the Hospital. Luckily, I had a great view and the food was good so other than the pain, all was fine. Right now is the first time I feel that am doing something right. The pain is manageable and I am thankful to have found ways to deal with the pain without really getting any input from medical authorities. At first, I was just massaging the painful area. Then I noticed water was working as well. Warm feels nicer. Since pressure seem to be effective, I started to wear a glove. Then I added a bandage. It works way better than medicine. If you have questions, you can ask me, I am also a health coach and value the use of nutrition and the strengthening of the immune system naturally.
Thank You for these videos 🙏 have you ever come across someone showing neuropathic pain by way of burning sensation in the penis, I think that's what I have
Thanks very informative
You are welcome.
I’ve had severe burning low back pain, skipping heart beat, shortness of breath , severe memory issues, and anxiety depression and found out I had anemia (b12 and folate deficiency) For 2 yrs I would be at my doctors crying and they just say nothing wrong. No one ever checking my levels.
Finally my insurance allowed me to go to a neurologist and found my RDW was 16.9 and with further tests realized I had malabsorption anemia.
I’m in the early recovery process and pray my pain will lessen.
I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. 😩😔😭
Sorry to hear that.
I had severe anemia for 10 years with the same symptoms!! Took forever for them to figure it out.
Thalamic stroke. The central nervous system pain is horrid. Pain that I describe as not human, being tortured and electrocuted, set on fire, being stabbed over and over, then tied behind car and dragged on a hot sidewalk in August. I'm in pain everyday. Nighttime pain is the worst, I call it "temperature pain". By 6 PM, I have to have everything done and in bed. My legs go straight and feet pointed curled into each other. My left side I can't move at all. I can feel the burning, acid, electric current running through my body, spine to brain. I lay there looking up at the ceiling taking tiny little breaths as tears leak out of my eyes. This can last for 10 minutes to hours of torment. The thalamic central nerve pain is devastating diagnosis. I also have other complications from the stroke but central pain rules my life. I spend time thinking of others that go through this horrid pain and how it affects them, their relationship, and how they try to survive. I surely can't be alone. ❤
I have neuropathy in my feet for the past 10+ years. Doctor tried 3 different meds. The first helped for about 3-4 years then it quit working. I switched to a second antidepressant med and I started having violent dreams. I stopped it quickly. The 3rd med I took about 6 months and it tooo stopped working. Gold bond Lotion, cool water foot baths , and heat pad to my lower back gives some relief. I personally think I have a pinched nerve in my lower back. Some days I have pain running down from my lower back threw my butt and down my legs to my feet. I went to a foot specialist and mapped my nerves from my knees to my feet and said the nerves were not working from just below my knees to my feet. Then he told me where was nothing he could do for me. I started taking high doses of vitamins B’s and it reducing my pain by about 20% . I do not drink alcohol, don’t had diabetes, don’t have hiv, no spinal damage except arthritis in my lower back. I saw a back surgeon and he said I didn’t need surgery. He told me to strengthen my lower back muscles. I’m doing that. That helped my lower back pain but did nothing for my feet. You have any ideas?
Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I don't have the ability to give medical advice here because I am not able to get all the details that I need and most importantly, to examine you. I don't give individual medical advice via social media or by email. This channel is for educational purposes only. Please talk to your doctor. Have you seen my website yet? Check it out www.doctorandreafurlan.com
Don't take my word for it because I'm no professional. But I was diagnosed with neuropathic last year with no known cause. I was placed on meds which worked until I stopped them.
When I saw that doctors didn't seem to care much about my problem, I took matters into my own hands and did some digging.
I observed that corn or any food containing corn, fruits, chicken, groundnuts, egg, bread, etc made the pain worse so I stopped taking those things.
Ever since I stopped, I've experienced a marked improvement in my overall health.
Now, I'm not trying to say you should stop those foods too, all I'm saying is just observant of what you eat. Some of them might be triggering the pain.
This was super helpful and so clearly explained. I have HIV neuropathy and the ants description was spot on. Also have the shocks and sleep challenges. Your video placed things in perspective for me. Thank You! All the way from Cape Town, South Africa
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I am also going through the same, please share how you're managing
I have trigeminal neuralgia type 2 and also neuropathic pain from herniated lumbar and cervical disc, not to mention several kinds of arthritis. I appreciate your videos, they are very well done and informative. Could you do a video on trigeminal neuralgia and include the type 2 which causes constant pain. Thank you very much, this would be helpful in trying to explain to others what it is that I experience on a daily basis.
Hi Thank you for your comment. That is a good question/suggestion for a future video.
Even though I’m living through it, I didn’t connect the dots. But at time stamp 9:35 you gave me a puzzle piece, now I see the whole picture. I’ve been dealing with back pain since October of 1978. I suffered from a ruptured brain aneurysm and stroke; then fell off the roof of my two story house. I was in a coma for two weeks, then rehab for 118 days. I’m disabled now, but I’ve gone trough five brain surgeries and four back surgeries. But my back pain was astir baited after my TBI, from the fall. I’ve have a recent MRI through my pain management doctor, it showed that I need to have a DNC cleaning from scare tissue in my epidural canal. Plus I do have arthritis in the spine to boot. Back to my TBI, it was so severe that I had to mourn my mother’s death a second time. I had to relearn to walk, talk, swallow…… everything. But I was so out of it, I removed my own feeding tube because I kept catching it in the bed sheets. I asked a doctor, he replied oh, you don’t need that. So I removed the sown in feeding tube before I had passed a swallow test. My whole past life was wiped out, gone. I knew my name and date of birth, that’s it. I actually thought I was in prison instead of the hospital. I did manage to escape one day, and the orderlies caught up with me at the frontage road of Interstate 35, with just a hospital gown and bare feet.
Oh my! I feel your pain. Some of us are just unlucky. However, it could be worse, perhaps dead?
God is with you in your trying time, always and forever. I pray there be a miracle for you.
Thank you very much.
Very clear, very educational, very hepful, and very beneficial.
You're very welcome!
Thankyou for your work
Hi Dr. Furlan, I have been diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and cervical degenerative disc disease, and I constantly have a tension like headache, my scalp is tender to the touch, I am sensitive to the weather temperature, I feel tired...Can you make a video talking about occipital neuralgia symptoms, diagnoses and treatment? I thank you very much
Great suggestion.
Neuropathic pain management is ridiculously poor and has not progressed at all in the last 50 years. Nerve modulation works in some cases but is mostly a solution that just masks the pain and causes tons of complications ( and tons of money to the big pharma, kickbacks to doctors).
Pathetic poor progress for such a widespread debilitating problem.
I actually find gym very helpful with nueropathic pain, it has to be pretty high intensity though. I recently got med free, by using gym and tens (with occasional panadol)
Yessss Brandon, I’m glad to see this comment.
When a person exercises they release many substances that are good for their bodies, including endorphins which are powerful analgesics.
Check my video #142 The Brain’s Inner Pharmacy ua-cam.com/video/2t1EnpoWlXo/v-deo.htmlsi=yHneeLNgPMiNQIzz
I have been suffering from the worst.pain ever..diabetic neuropathy, 15yrs on and the only meds that l get relief from is very strong narcotics meds..morphine ..l was put on about 15 different types of meds..now l have to be on Lyrica and morphine in order to have some normalcy in may life. I had a very hard time trying to find a Dr. In a pain clinic that is now treating me and if wasn't for his help..l would have ended my life...l wish this pain on no one..stabbing, electricAl. Shock, skin burning as if very hot scotch bonnet pepper touches it, numbing, freezing , at times feels as if fireworks in may feet..l love to watch fireworks but l do not want it in my.feet especially around my ankles, l have on control itching and in the middle of a heatwave my feet will feel as if its in the middle of winter..feeling as if its minus 40..plus twitches.
Hope that all who us suffering with chronic pain as. Able to find a Dr who will help them in getting relief.
Praying that you have found a doctor who can help you ! My ortho suggested Alpha lipoic Acid as a supplement and Vitamin B Complex. Those have helped me most early on . I also completely changed my diet and use many different modalities and other supplements to try to get some relief. Avoiding gluten, reducing red meat and dairy, low sodium and no sugar diet etc.
Does this kind of pain from disc. Because I was diagnosed with neuropathic pain but not sure what it caused by.
Dr. I developed Neuropathic pain and Anti Inflammatory pain ever since I suffered after an attack of Meningococcal Meningitis 42years back. I also was operated for Carpal tunnel syndrome. I am on Gaba 100mg and Panadol who h helps in my relief, but only for a short time. I use Deep heat for relief. The pain is in my while body. Extremely painful, Dr. Andrea.
I’m sorry to hear that Marina
My problems with pain has destroyed my life. I have degenerative disk disease. I have had carpal tunnel surgery on both wrist. But it's is the neuropathic pain which controls my life. In Sept 2008 I felt a bite on the back of my left leg. I had been working on a log home of a friend. When I got home 6 or 7 hours later I took off my jeans to put shorts on and I had a rash that had spread though my left leg. The VA told me to go to the nearest hospital. 12 years later and it's only worst. The medical community has not been much help. I have bad dreams about this. Sleep is difficult. I wake up to pain and as I type this I am in pain. I quit drinking years ago because the VA gave me opioids I quit smoking weed many years earlier. I don't like being impaired. Never smoked tobacco. I am diabetic since about 2014 or 15. And I have a copd issue. The VA has failed me. They fail to see that all my health issues started after the tick bite Sept 2008. They tell me it's not lyme and that we do not get lyme here in the Carolina's. I showed them a picture from the CDC's website that shows ticks hitchhiking on migrating birds. They say I don't have lyme. I am not sure I believe anything they tell me. Please correct me if I am wrong , but with small fiber neuropathy isn't a skin or nerve biopsy the correct test . The rash was diagnosed as cellulitis ( they did not test for lyme ) and I was off my feet for 3 weeks. And taking antibiotics. I did not have a lyme test til 18 months after the bite on my leg. I also am still feeling the effects from covid. 8 days in the hospital in April. Half of that in the ICU. The nursing staff are heroes.
Dear Robert, thank you for sharing your story with me. I really feel sorry for all your pains and lack of diagnosis. I had a pain in my lower back in January this year and a rash going down the back of my tight. It was varicela zoster. I took pictures and I did another video (ua-cam.com/video/HknuhSFtG_U/v-deo.html) It is hard for me to give you medical advice, becuase I do not have all the details. I hope you understand that. I'm glad you recovered well from Covid and I am glad the nurses were helpful. I pray that God will bless your life and that you can find a physician who will help you to find a proper diagnosis.
Ticks can give you lyme and a whole host of other illness. Had lyme in the 90s undiagnosed 3 years and last year had anaplasmosis, that was bad and im still suffering various symptoms. You need a physician familier with tick disease. I had to go on antibiotic intravenously for a month, dont let these people tell you there is nothing wrong. They are clueless. Good luck
Always good information!
Glad you think so!
thank you! this made me understand better what i am undergoing.
Hi Romano, Please come back to tell me more how these videos have helped you. I’m trying to get some testimonials from people who use my videos.
Thanks Dr. Furlan. I just had my ankle surgery last April 21, 2022. After the nerve block or anesthesia wore off, I experienced burning pain in my foot. Repositioning the foot relieved the pain but after a week, i experienced some sort of electrical pain or throbbing pain, it seemed to be coming from the nerves. this pain was much worse than what i experienced pre surgery. much worse than any pain i have experienced in my entire life. My doctor prescribed pregabalin to me. When I saw pregabalin in your video, that was the time i realized what pain i was experiencing. Thank you for your helpful video.
Hello I have post operative neuropathic pain after a Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aorta Injury. I got into a pedestrian vs motor vehicle accident at the age of ten. I suffered a broken tibia/fibula and to repair I have metal plates and screws in my lower leg. The screws have been poking far out enough to where it is visible underneath my skin. I had a open heart surgery for an aortic rupture and a Dacron graft was sewn over my aortic. I have lived with neuropathic pain for 14 years now that I am turning 24 this July. It is the same chronic pain that occurs randomly even when I am not moving. A sharp repetitive shooting stabbing like pain that persists for hours, days, weeks, months, and years. A numb tingling feeling always on my left side. Back and Abdominal pain. A burning and electric shock sensation. And it have drastically affected my quality of life. I started on Gabapentin and increased my dosage gradually over a period of 6 month. It did not have any effect. I moved to Cymbalta with no effect. Then Tramadol 100mg with very minimal effect. The doctors would not prescribe me anything stronger than tramadol and I live in constant pain longer than I have lived a normal life. What can I do?
I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome from surgeries on my foot. I was allergic to the nickel in the screws and plates so it had to come out. Your sensations sound alot like CRPS that I experience, Many doctors do not recognize it,but you are taking some of the same mediations I am on. If they do not help enough ask about supplements to take as well. Alpha Lipoic acid, Vitamin B complex, Quercetin with Bromelain are some of the supplements that are giving me some relief and were suggested by my Ortho and Dietician. I have used quite a few different modalities to help and sometimes Epsom Salt soaks help. Changing my diet to exclude inflammatory foods,increase magnesium in my diet, and eliminate gluten . That does take commitment and 6 months to a year, but the inflammation is reduced in the body and helps with neuropathy,chronic pain, and migraines sometimes. I hope you can advocate for yourself and open up conversations with your doctors about these alternative options. Best Wishes to you!
Oh 😳 My God 🙏 trust me I feel your pain my prayers are with you.
I've been having stabbing/shooting pain that feels like a painful pulsating pain that lasts a few seconds. It can happen any where in my body. Randomly. And sometimes i feel my muscles twich and feel pain. It started years back as migran pain in my head and over the years its gotten worse and now i feel it all over my body. Even my finger tips. And i also feel a sensation of numbness that also goes away after a few seconds or minutes. Being extremely fatigued recently. Could this type of pain also be considered as a neuropathic pain? Should i be going to the doctor.
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How are you feeling now ?
I have the same problem. !
Thank you very much ❤
Can you give me some information on Shingles and how to handle this pain
Hi Wendy. I have another video about shingles. ua-cam.com/video/HknuhSFtG_U/v-deo.html
Helow. I was diagnosed with Arnold syndrome for having a flat back. Is it a neuropathic pain and how to treat it? Could you make a video on the aftermath of Harrington's barbell spinal fusion? Thank You.
Thank you for your knowledge and taking time to create these useful videos. Much appreciated. 😊
What are the tests that can diagnose pain causes like fibromyalgia? Or other neuro based pains?
Thank you very much for this very educational & very much helpful video.
Your facts and visual aids are very reliable and very clear.
Your presentation is very graceful and very upbuilding.
"Can provide a video about "Multiple Sclerosis"?
Thank you very much and God bless you all always.
I’ve was diagnosed with small fibre neuropathy by dr Richard Leckey two years ago.
It started in feet and is spreading up my legs and is in my hands now. Am on gabapentin but it’s not helping much. What else can I do for the pain?
Hi Jackie. Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I don't have the ability to give medical advice here because I am not able to get all the details that I need and most importantly, to examine you. I don't give individual medical advice via social media or by email. This channel is for educational purposes only. Please talk to your doctor.
What help uf i agree to have injection bec of the pain in my hips all the way to my left legs...im really scared of the side effect of the medication...i was advice to have injection ...
Thank you for your comment. Please talk to your doctor about the side effects of your medications.
Very informative. I watched your video on gabapentin. I was switched to pregabalin when gabapentin no longer was effective. Eventually, my dose went to 300mg 2 times a day. I was dizzy at times so I asked the doctor to switch back to gabapentin. I should have left well enough alone. I will be going back to pregabalin. I have numbness, in my left leg. a feeling of being stung by a hornet, sharp searing stabs. Sometimes one sometimes by a hundred hornets on my left leg. prickling stabbing and burning pain in my feet, I didn't see a video on pregabalin. I have idiopathic neuropathy. Will you be doing something on pregabalin? It would be very interesting to watch.
The video of pregabalin is coming next on my channel on Nov 28 2021.
Hy mrs dr.furlan i am not understand more english i have a neuropathic pain in right hip side in nerve damage in an accident and surgery the hip and joint but not to be joint fracture but in pain in whole side the surgery time is 15 year and now my age is 34 and am very difficult to complete my work
I am having disc bulge at L4 and L5 and i am paiin in my leg while walking to a short distance۔Now i am having left arm pain shooting heavily and gets ok after a long time۔What it indicates۔Please clarrify
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Hi I am Aftab from Pakistan my age is 25 year I am feeling burning feet and muscle pain.muscle pain starts when I use some antibiotics after calcium and vitamin d effects my arms and legs muscle I have no diabetes I asked my doctor he gave me vitamin b12 I used vitamin b12 one day and my pain progress and my shoulder start pain all this is due to medicine sideffect my all test is normal ESR crp CPK vitamin b12 rft lft all normal what this is problem?
I have severe pain after having shingles on my top left chest. How do I treat this as it is quite excruciating when the pain comes up.
Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I have another video about shingles. I don't have the ability to give medical advice here because I am not able to get all the details that I need and most importantly, to examine you. I don't give individual medical advice via social media or by email. This channel is for educational purposes only. Please talk to your doctor. Have you seen my website yet? Check it out www.doctorandreafurlan.com
Hi what would tickling through the spine and feet hands fall under ???
I think that is what we describe as tingling, or maybe pins and needles.
Would it be possible for you to do a video on how to help people with auto-immune neuropathies? I have small fiber polyneuropathy with autonomic involvement suspected to be related to the elevated levels of FGFR-3 auto-antibodies that I have in my system. I can only find 9 or so articles in the literature that are recent on this topic and none are addressing how to handle this kind of neuropathy differently. Washington University lists it as related to Sjogren's Syndrome and Lupus and says axonal loss without regeneration..... I am receiving IVIG for this but I am not sure it is worth it for the benefit I am receiving yet. I have been sick for a long time though - for 12 years or so...and have only been on IVIG since last May. I'd like it if this topic could be covered by you. You have a unique and great perspective with both an academic and medical background.
Hi. Thank you for this suggestion. It is a rare disease but one that is commonly missed and misdiagnosed. I will add to my list of To-Do videos.
After stress more than 10 years ago, I started having glossalgia. Just a burning pain, as if scalded with boiling water. Inflammation of the trigeminal nerve began 3 years ago, as well as lower back pain and burning, shooting pain in the leg and chills. It lasted a very long time and I was prescribed lyrics, then citalopram. A few months later, the antidepressant was able to overcome glossalgia. But after the abolition of the antidepressant glossalgia returned. Over time, it got better. But from severe stress, the pain of the tongue begins again.
Why does this pain occur? What is the origin of this pain? Neuropathic? Fibromyalgia?
It hurts even when the tongue touches the teeth! Burns and burns.
I have a burning sensation in my left hand and I even lost sensation in the same hand. I was diagnosed with Arthritis last year May and on Indocin treatment but no changes. I don't know what to do now😔
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Hello
I live in Australia. I have a chronic condition, diagnosed as Fibromyalgia. If you see me here, can you please suggest anything I can get to treat pain, insomnia and IBS/constipation.
I believe Fibromyalgia has been found to come from neurological pathways…
Hi Caroline, please check my videos:
What is fibromyalgia ua-cam.com/video/_1B8U-eEkE0/v-deo.html
Why do people get fibromyalgia ua-cam.com/video/7GsOJrZwPAs/v-deo.html
Central Sensitization ua-cam.com/video/lGtGtuS_zo8/v-deo.html
@@DrAndreaFurlan Thank you so much 🙏
Can I get information about Shingles and what to use to help with the pain
Yes. See my other video ua-cam.com/video/HknuhSFtG_U/v-deo.html
Please can alpha-1 agonist be used in the management of peripheral neuropathic pain?
Hi there, I am suffering with a really bad neuropathy due to chemotherapy (Oxaliplatin) and had tried almost every medication prescribed with no help at all with my symptoms.
symptoms like, numbness, burning sensation, pin and needles, glove stocking, electric shocks, feeling like walking on marbles or golf balls, also in my hands. My symptoms are from my feet up to my knees, and my hands up to my elbows. All started from my toes and fingers back in May 2017 during and after chemo treatment and slowly was progressing to the point I am now.
Any specific webinar related to this? or any suggestions?
thank you
Please talk to your doctor about this.
Explain did you ever got a patient with ringing ear , facial itching, nerve tingling on head and face , tooth and face pain , all trigeminal neuralgia symptoms with horrible ringing ear, ever recovered
Plz tell me where in Toronto you are.i need help with my scalp pain and headache
Hi I live in w.v. And would appreciate a recommendation for some to help with spinal injury and neuropathy. Can you provide a clinic. I am willing to travel. Toronto is a bit far though.. love your videos and thanks for being there. Gretch
Hello doctor good morning . I am not diabetic but Iam suffering with peripheral neuropathy . Iam on gabapentin 600 mg four tablets for a day . Please advice .
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Is there more information on alcoholic neuropathy? I have family members who drank alcoholicly for many years, now sober for many years.
That is a good suggestion! I'm thinking of doing a Q&A video in the future.
I also have cold intolerance... Due to cold I am facing so much of health issues...
This is exactly what I am suffering from for 10 years now. all the symptoms are the same in my case. I live in Africa, The Gambia but doctors here can’t tell me what’s wrong. I had two surgeries for nail information because the pain is underneath my nail but the pain always comes back. I need help.
Hi, I hope you can find a doctor that understands your problem.
This may be CRPS from your surgeries, not many doctors recognize it. I live in the USA and it was my physical therapist who identified it then eventually I was referred to pain specialist who confirmed it. It took 5 months from physical therapist identifying it, to visiting my ortho and doctors, and then finally seeing pain specialist. This was 2021. If you can research CRPS or RSD on line to compare what you feel and experience to those symptoms of CRPS/RSD. The sites also can possibly direct you to a doctor or specialist in your area good luck!
Alcoholic neuropathy can be cured and back to normal?
I have another video about alcohol and nerve pain. Check here ua-cam.com/video/85h4y_Fus38/v-deo.html
Like someone stabbing and turning a corkscrew into my leg!
I am sorry to hear that. I hope you find relief!
I was hoping you would mention PUDENDIAL NEURALGIA!
Good suggestion for a future video.
Hi
Hi Jainamma
It's terrible. Docs know nothing. I^m my best doc on this. I trashed all the meds. They were only giving me very bad side effects. Like total amnesia. Impossible to exist on them.
I just had a severe bout of shingles on my arm, hand and fingers. Now I am left with the post herpetic neuralgia, mostly in my hand inside and out and every fingers all around. I am only taking cbd for pain. I did not find that Tylenol and gabapentin were effective. Oddly enough, what works best to reduce the pain is to apply a gentle pressure on the painful areas or run water on it warm or cold works fine. I will up my vitamins and magnesium and see what happens. I am 59 years old female, so I was at risk for this nerve pain - which was totally unknown to me until I got the shingles. I have never seen such pain in my life, I was literally screaming in the hospital when I got these attacks which only lasted less than a minute. Those didn’t last very long, thank God, I was ready to get my whole arm amputated Arghhh. It’s been a month since I started my shingles and should not have waited so long to get medical attention. I ended up on an IV for a week in the Hospital. Luckily, I had a great view and the food was good so other than the pain, all was fine. Right now is the first time I feel that am doing something right. The pain is manageable and I am thankful to have found ways to deal with the pain without really getting any input from medical authorities. At first, I was just massaging the painful area. Then I noticed water was working as well. Warm feels nicer. Since pressure seem to be effective, I started to wear a glove. Then I added a bandage. It works way better than medicine. If you have questions, you can ask me, I am also a health coach and value the use of nutrition and the strengthening of the immune system naturally.
Hi, I also had shingles and I did a video about it. Have you seen it? ua-cam.com/video/HknuhSFtG_U/v-deo.html
Thank You for these videos 🙏 have you ever come across someone showing neuropathic pain by way of burning sensation in the penis, I think that's what I have
Neuropathic pain can affet any part of the body.
@@DrAndreaFurlan Thanks Dr Furlan