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Symptoms of disease - neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is a type of pain, which is in contrast to the normal pain appears not as a result of the reaction to physical damage, and as a result of pathological excitation of neurons in peripheric or the Central nervous system, responsible for the reaction to physical damage of an organism (the usual pain).

Which diseases there is neuropathic pain

Many people, having neuropathic pain, often do not describe their feelings as pain. On the contrary, they may tell you that they feel «a lot of needles, thorn», «points», tingling, numbness, feel the passage of electric current». Very often, the pain can be caused by something that does not normally cause of pain: a touch of clothing, bed sheets, blanket, etc. Sometimes the pain can be spontaneous and very strong. But the problem is that it is «invisible». In contrast to the injury or arthritis You don't see the cause, and it is difficult to understand - with which it is linked.

Characteristic sensation in neuropathic pain:
- Numbness
- Shooting pain
- Burning
- Electrical current to flow
- Tingling
- «Crawling ants»

The most frequent variants of neuropathic pain:

1. Neuropathic pain caused by diabetic defeat nerves
Nerve damage in diabetes is called diabetic polyneuropathy. Especially often it develops at a high content of glucose in the blood. Almost in a half of patients with diabetic polyneuropathy are neuropathic pain, which include:
- tingling in the feet, the fingers of stop;
- burning sensation in the feet, increasing the night;
- pain when wearing shoes and/or standing and walking.

2. Neuropathic pain, caused by infection herpes
Pain that occurs after postherpetic, called postherpetic neuralgia. It develops more frequently in older persons after the disappearance of a characteristic rash. Can last more than 3 months and is characterized by:
- burning pain in the zone, where they were rash;
- pain when touched clothes, bed linen;
- a long-term course, a violation of sleep.

3. Neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury
After a spinal cord injury patients can disturb a lot of pain. They are often associated with damage to the nerves that pass in the spinal cord, and refer to the neuropathic type of pain. It's burning, stabbing, shooting pain in the arms, legs, torso, sometimes very strong.

4. Neuropathic pain after stroke
About 8% of patients who have had a stroke, after some time (from 1 month up to 2 years) on the side of the patient, or in the arm and/or leg, there may be unpleasant sensations of tingling, stinging, pain in contact with cold items, «the hand is cold». Therefore, to reduce the pain, some patients are mitten. This type of neuropathic pain is called the Central post-stroke pain. It is caused nerve damage in the brain.

5. Neuropathic pain after surgery
After the surgery, some patients for a long time are worried about the pain and the unpleasant sensation of burning, tingling, «goose bumps» in the zone of postoperative seam. This is due to partial damage of peripheral nerves in the field of surgical intervention. Such neuropathic pain often arise after operations on removal of a mammary gland (mastectomy), etc.

6. Neuropathic pain in the back
Each of us, one way or another, sometimes a sore back. Often this is due to muscle tension, changes in the joints of the vertebrae. But if there is a compression of emerging from the spinal nerve roots (for example, hernia of intervertebral disk), it may be a neuropathic pain: a sharp shooting pain from the lower back to his feet, combined with a sense of stinging, tingling and numbness in the leg. Sometimes these pains quickly, but in some cases may persist for a long time and do not respond to the usual methods of anesthesia.

7. Neuropathic pain in the face
Neuropathic pain can arise in the form of attacks. For example, some people of the older and old-age at the time of the conversation, eating or touching the face arise bouts of pain in the side of face. This is due to compression of the trigeminal nerve, which is responsible for sensitivity in the area of the face. Cause compression is often located near a blood vessel. This disease is called neuralgia of the trigeminal nerve. The attacks of pain is very severe, can last for years, violate human efficiency.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a neuropathic pain

• Neurologist

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Do you feel neuropathic hurts? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

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