the.com/neuropathy
Your nerves sending angry static when nothing's actually touching you.
means Damage or dysfunction in the peripheral nerves that disrupts normal sensation, movement, or organ function, often causing numbness, tingling, pain, or weakness.
from Built from Greek neuron, meaning sinew or nerve, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease — the same pathos that gives us pathology and sympathy. The combination simply means 'nerve suffering,' coined in the 19th century as medicine began naming diseases by the tissue they attacked rather than just their symptoms.
- top cause
- diabetes damages nerves via chronic high blood sugar
- the irony
- pain signals fire even as sensation itself fades
- pattern
- starts in feet first, nerves' farthest outposts die last fed
- not just diabetes
- chemo, alcohol, vitamin B12 deficiency all culprits too