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Peripheral nerves can produce some really ‘odd’
symptoms:
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after injury theremay actually be no symptoms for
days, evenweeks, then shebang!
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itchiness in skin zones
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it might just feel plainweird. We have heard patients
say things like ‘it’s strings pulling’, or ‘it’s water
running inmy skin’, ‘it’s ants onme’, or ‘it’s
prickly’.
As long as you realise that, despite some odd symptoms,
you are not going crazy! The nerves aren’t dying or
decaying, they are rarely injured, they are just doing the
wrong thing and inmany cases they are responding to
signals from your brain that tell them that increased
sensitivity and better warnings are required.
Many people have altered, damaged and compressed
nerves, yet no symptoms. If you have peripheral nerve
problems, and all the cues (eg. fear, mechanical forces,
anxiety) that exist to keep the nerve sending danger
signals are taken away, the nervemay not hurt.
However, the nerve will still look like it didwhen it was
sending danger signals.
