QUICK LINKS
The Toolkit includes documents to promote a dialogue with your health care team including pain symptom guides and diagnostic tests. Other resources detail guidelines for neuropathy treatments approved by the FDA and AAN. Help with day-to-day living and individual treatment success stories fill out the patient toolkit.
ESSENTIAL NEUROPATHY WEBSITES
DIAGNOSIS OF PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
- Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathy
- Negative EMG/NCV so I don’t have Neuropathy? Not so Fast!
- What does my Peripheral Neuropathy diagnosis mean?
- An Algorithm for the Evaluation of Peripheral Neuropathy (Poncelet Protocols)
- Liza Jane's Neuropathic Testing Spreadsheets
- Quest Diagnostics - Laboratory Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathy
DIALOGUE WITH HEALTH CARE TEAM
- 10 questions to ask at your next annual checkup
- How to partner with your doctor
- Questions to ask your doctor
- Describing your pain
- Brief Pain Inventory
- Norfolk Quality of life
- Guide to discuss treatment goals with healthcare providers
- Guide to discuss neuropathy symptoms with healthcare providers
TREATMENTS
- Drugs approved by the FDA for treatment for neuropathic pain syndromes (Table 7), 2018
- AAN Updates Treatment Guidance on Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
- AAN 2022 Peripheral Neuropathy Guidelines Summary
INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT SUCCESSES
- Less neuropathy pain with plant-based diet
- No alcohol – less pain
- Acupuncture for Peripheral Neuropathy and member successes
- Complementary Alternative Treatments
- Still Sliding Down Hills on Sticks!
- Alcohol and neuropathy