Category : Neuropathy

Neuropathy Pain Symptom Relief

Neuropathy pain is pain coming directly as a consequence of a lesion or condition affecting the somatosensory system. Around one fourth of all the neuropathy pain sufferers with neuropathy pain also have type 2 diabetes. The discomfort can be extreme and is typically of chronic and can be described by the type 2 diabetes patient like getting an electric shock, or a burning sensation, a severe, stabbing or shooting pain.

Neuropathy Pain and its Natural Health Management

Other issues can include, allodynia, which is when even a gentle, light touch, provokes pain, hyperpathia, a short incidence of discomfort causing sustained severe pain or hyperalgesia, which is discomfort, which would normally be mild, but instead feels like severe pain.

Neuropathy Pain Prevalence

There is no way people who do not suffer with neuropathy pain can truly understand what it is like to have to deal with neuropathy pain every day. Of all the neuropathy pain sufferers, suffering with painful neuropathy pain, 16-26% of those neuropathy pain sufferers also suffer with diabetes. In traditional medicine these are some of the drugs that are used: Nitrofurantoin, Isoniazid, Vincristine, cisplatin, arsenic, Thallium, Clioquinol, and Disulfiram. If you are on any of these drugs, you may want to do some research to see what the side effects and contraindications are and to make an appointment with Dr. Miller. Neuropathy pain sufferers following Dr. Miller’s program are safely getting off these and other drugs.

Neuropathy Pain and Traditional Therapies and Care

The traditional protocols for treating neuropathy pain look something like an experiment. The risks and benefits of neuropathy pain pharmacological care are considered and a particular drug is selected. Coping strategies are looked at and several non-pharmacological options, which can include referral to a specialist for psychological therapies, or for surgical and often to pain clinics for interventions, are a few of those options.

When a traditional doctor is selecting a specific medication for a neuropathy pain and/or type 2 diabetes patient, several things are considered, like, safety aspects, drug contra-indications, the patient’s preferences and their lifestyle factors, whether the patient has a history of mental health issues which can include anxiety and depression and any existing medication history. All medications and dosage instructions are given in writing and supplementing pain medication with over the counter drugs or alcohol is a sign, what you are doing is not working. Sometimes traditional doctors will overlap old medications with new ones, in an attempt to get pain under control. See Dr. Miller if your situation is this painful.

When should you see Dr. Miller for Neuropathy Pain?

Call Dr. Miller if you have a diagnosis of neuropathy pain, of if you have doubt about your diagnosis of neuropathy pain, if you have not had inadequate response from your current neuropathy pain management care, or if find you are using drugs, nerve blocks, and other therapies to no lasting effect.  For neuropathy pain sufferers who suffer with neuropathy pain and/or type 2 diabetes, Lexington, Kentucky is close by for getting their health restored and their healthy life back. Most of our type 2 diabetes and neuropathy pain sufferers come to us not only from Lexington Kentucky, but from communities that frame the city of Lexington, Kentucky.  Lexington Kentucky is a great city which has easy access for type 2 diabetes and neuropathy pain sufferers to get to easily.

What is Neuropathy Pain?

Neuropathy pain patients come to Dr. Miller suffering with the symptoms of neuropathy pain because their neuropathy pain is unmanageable and the side effects and costs of traditional neuropathy pain care is too much to bear, more often than not. If you too suffer from neuropathy pain, odds are you know this story only too well, yourself. The neuropathy pain care of the issues causing the neuropathy pain, is critical to neuropathy pain management. Neuropathy pain relieved by pressure, for instance, may traditionally necessitate surgery and/or other invasive procedures. Dr. Miller has a neuropathy pain management program that is not invasive.

In handling the management of your neuropathy pain symptoms, when your underlying cause was medical in origin, and recurring, or chronic, or acute in nature, while waiting for it to be bad enough for medical intervention, you may have felt you had no other choice, for treating your condition. It is a terrible place to be.

Non-pharmacological Measures for Neuropathy Pain

When it comes to psychological treatment techniques, the evidence base has suggested, psychological neuropathy pain care can be quite beneficial, in assisting neuropathy pain patients in dealing with the emotional conditions, of neuropathy pain. The problem is it does not have much of a positive effect, on the level of neuropathy pain itself. The studies of chronic neuropathy pain management have suggested there can be a combination of pharmacological, psychological, and the physical therapies, that can be personalized to meet the needs of each neuropathy pain patient, and although these may be the best traditional methods available, the contra-indications, side effects and lack of progress towards healing leave much to be desired.

Neuropathy Pain Patient Education

Neuropathy pain patient education is fairly often used as an ineffective strategy, which the evidence base has proven falls short of effectiveness. One would think there would be great benefit when a neuropathy pain patient is more informed and able to be more involved in healthcare decisions about their own neuropathy pain treatment, and there may be many factors as to why this has not been effective, not the least of which may be the patients may just be weary of the whole situation and not see any hope of improvement. This is another reason neuropathy pain patients come to Dr. Miller.

Neuropathy Pain Patient Electrical Stimulation

Perhaps in your desire to be pain free you have tried a TENS unit or some other electrical stimulation method for pain control.  A TENS unit, which stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, can help with neuropathy pain control to a point and with some patients under some conditions. The problem is, it still does nothing to correct the underlying issues, which Dr. Miller’s neuropathy pain program addresses.