Peripheral Neuropathy & Nerve Pain

In addition to numbness and tingling in my feet, I used to get pretty several nerve pain about one a month. Each occurrence would last about 24 hours and painful enough to prevent me from sleeping or working. The apparent location of the pain point would vary each time as well.

Since the heart surgery, the numbness and tingling seems to be much more intense than before, but the pain part has been rare. I think it only happened once or twice and I’ve been relatively pain free for the past three months. However, it seems the pain is starting up again. There’s a sharp pain that appears intermittently in my left foot. I was hoping that the nerve pain was somewhat related to my heart issues. Once the blocked arteries were bypasses, maybe the pain will go away too.

I guess not.

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I also spoke to the rounding nephrologist yesterday regarding the neuropathy. I read some articles online that correlates neuropsthy with dehydration. The only major change I can come up with between now and a few months ago is my weight loss and a lot of that is fluid removal. I’m still pretty thirsty most of the time and they keep dropping my “dry” weight at dialysis. I thought if they let me drink more and increase my weight, it may relieve some of the neuropathy. However, the doctor said she hasn’t heard of this relationship before and suggested more medication (Gabapentin) for the neuropathy.