My Journey Into Understanding Why My Blood Sugar Was Hurting My Nerves The first time a doctor...
Janet Ellis
Patient advocate and neuropathy support group leader with over a decade of personal experience managing peripheral neuropathy. I started Neuropathy Resource to create the resource I wish had existed when I was first diagnosed — honest, accessible information written by someone who actually lives with this condition. Everything here comes from personal experience, published medical research, and conversations with healthcare providers. I am not a medical professional — I'm someone who has walked this road and wants to help others navigate it.
My neighbors leave the second week of November and come back around the first of April, and...
A friend from my support group asked me a question last month that I could not shake....
Moving is not one big lift. That’s the thing that catches people out. A move is four...
Somewhere in the middle of my second neurologist appointment, the doctor said something I have thought about...
The first time a neurologist told me my EMG was “essentially normal,” I felt something I had...
Four hours at a fundraiser cost me two days. That’s the whole arithmetic, and I didn’t do...
My friend Barbara sat across from me at a coffee shop last spring holding a manila folder...
The pharmacy called me on a Tuesday afternoon, in the parking lot after book club. “Janet, your...
The first time I asked my neurologist about damaged nerves, I sat in his office with my...