peripheral neuropathy

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has anyone ever heard of perpheral neuropathy in a pt who is not diabetic? she c/o pain and tingling in her feet and toes , wears ted hose when at work. doc put her on lyrica..... seems to help.... but i have never heard of this without being diabetic.....could it be a form of reflex symapthic dystrophy? thank you all in advance

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I've had some sort of neuropathy in my right foot for years. There's no pain, but the numbness has progressed from the outside of the baby toe to the entire outer part of the foot, the sole, and the middle toe. I also have some venous stasis in the same leg.

However, I don't think it has anything to do with diabetes, because my FBS was always in the 85-95 range until this year, when it was 108 and my doctor pronounced me "prediabetic".

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Specializes in ED/trauma.

I've had numbness & tingling in my hands & feet for years -- in addition to chronic pain and other things. I was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Dr wanted to start me on Lyrica, but that's a "Tier 3" drug per my insurance, so I have to try 1 of 10 other drugs (2 being opiods!) first for 30 days and show that it did NOT help before insurance will let me have Lyrica. (Sad...) I've been on Neurontin for a few weeks now. It seems to help a little. I also wear TEDs to work AND take tramadol for the pain.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Seems you may have found the issue, but any chance they have reynaud's syndrome? You can get neuropathy with that over time, in addition to the feeling cold and intermittent (or constant) cyanosis. I've seen that combo before...

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