4 Things You May Not Know About Nerve Pain

Nerve pain can occur in different forms such as tingling, burning, pins and needles, and electric. Many people experience unexplained nerve pain. HIV, celiac disease, trauma, cancer, etc., are the major causes of nerve pain. Nerve pain can disrupt your day to day life at home and at work. It can limit your ability to move around and, with time, even put you down.

  1.    Diagnosis of Nerve Pain

If you feel you might have nerve pain, it is good to visit a doctor. If you have a problem getting to the doctor’s office, you may be able to get a doctor to you.
Many conditions can cause nerve pain. Therefore, your doctor would need to run several lab tests to determine the exact cause of your nerve pain. According to various studies, people with nerve pain experience insomnia, anxiety and depression.

When having serious medical conditions such as cancer and HIV, it even becomes harder to cope with nerve pain. The seriousness of nerve pain is often associated with an underlying disease. Nerve pain worsens when people get older. The good news is that although nerve pain cannot be cured, there are lots of options for treatment.

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  1.    Unexplained Nerve Pain

The cause of nerve pain may be unidentified even after a lot of tests for some people. Unexplained nerve pain is also known as idiopathic nerve pain or idiopathic neuropathy. Nerve pain can result from nerve damage that could have happened at a certain point in your life.

However, prevailing medical knowledge on nerve pain and available tests cannot determine how, when or why they occur. The unexplained nerve pain is most likely to occur in people above sixty years of age.

  1.    Treating Nerve Pain

When nerve pain results from a known condition such as diabetes or HIV, priority is given to the treatment of the underlying disease. However, treatment of the underlying disease may not help with the pain. It might be necessary to treat the nerve pain separately from the disease causing it.

There are a variety of treatments for nerve pain. A patient’s health, the underlying cause of nerve pain, cost of treatment, and potential side effects determine the right treatment. Doctors usually give the same set of treatment regardless of the cause of nerve pain.

The basic treatments for nerve pain include topical treatments such as over the counter creams, gels, lotions and patches, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, painkillers and electric stimulation.

  1.    Home Treatment for Nerve Pain

Keep Moving – Regular exercise may cause the blood vessels in the feet to expand with time, bringing back damaged nerves to life. Daily walks are a great way to start and, with time, you can build up pace and distance covered.

Step Up Foot Care – Check your feet daily if you have nerve pain in the feet. Wear shoes that are comfortable and see a podiatrist daily.

Explore the Mind-Body Connection – Ask for referrals from a trusted friend or a doctor to a known professional offering guided imagery, meditation, biofeedback, or hypnosis.

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Visit www.nervepaintreatment.org to find out more about the health condition and how to treat it.

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