Peripheral Neuropathy Sciatica
Peripheral neuropathy sciatica is usually a
pseudo-sciatica
expression which can mimic traditional sciatic nerve pain. While true
sciatica
describes a structural or systemic process affecting the
sciatic nerve
or one of its spinal
nerve root
sources, peripheral neuropathy conditions occur in the smaller nerves which branch out throughout the body and in this case, the lower limbs.
What is Peripheral Neuropathy Sciatica?
Peripheral neuropathy is a general term for nerve pain which affects a specific nerve or set of nerves in a regional area. These nerves are part of the peripheral nervous system. Peripheral nerves may be large or tiny, as can the symptoms and effects of peripheral neuropathy. There are an incredible number of known causes for peripheral neuropathy, as well as many which remain a mystery.
Ischemia
is not only one of the primary causes of
chronic sciatica,
it is also one of the main reasons for peripheral neuropathy anywhere in the body.
,br>Peripheral Neuropathy Causes
Peripheral neuropathy can be sourced due to a wide range of causations. Some of the most common include:* Disease processes, such as
Diabetes,
Lupus, Friedreich's ataxia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Sjögren's syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome, Shingles and others. * Regional
oxygen deprivation
due to anatomical or
psychosomatic
cause. * Traumatic injury to the affected area. * Organ failure. * Alcoholism or drug abuse. * Poisoning through environmental contaminants, radiation, chemicals or even an overabundance of natural substances, such as vitamin B6. * Nutritional deficiency, especially of vitamins A, E, B1, B12. * Immune deficiency, such as HIV/AIDS.
Peripheral Neuropathy Sciatica Advice
Peripheral neuropathy is a huge category of disorders. It acts as an umbrella diagnosis for patients who defy typical diagnostic parameters, as well as those who have confirmed sources of neurological dysfunction. I have corresponded with many patients whose obvious emotionally driven ischemia was misdiagnosed as coming from some structural or disease process enacted neuropathy. These patients endured countless risky
drug therapies
without relief while
knowledge therapy
could have cured them much sooner if they only had achieved a correct diagnosis. Be careful of neuropathy diagnoses, especially when the exact source is unknown or speculative. Do not be a guinea pig for some new pharmaceutical product and wind up in worse shape or dead when the product turns out to be poisonous to your body (which they almost all do…) Remember that nerve pain is the most difficult to accurately diagnose and even when the exact symptomology can be ascertained, the underlying causation is often never discovered.
Peripheral Neuropathy Sciatica to Sciatica
5/4/10 Revised 7/22/11
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