I want to start this article with a story, because the science gets dense quickly and I...
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.
One of the things I hear most often in neuropathy support groups is some version of this:...
Two springs ago I nearly went over sideways into a drainage ditch because a scarlet tanager landed...
A reader wrote to me a few months ago with a question I hear more often than...
There’s a moment that happens to almost everyone with chronic nerve pain. You finally see a specialist,...
The first time my neurologist mentioned mexiletine, I thought I had misheard her. We were sitting in...
Last week, my friend Connie texted me a screenshot of her continuous glucose monitor and asked, “How...
Last winter I was ironing a linen blouse before a family lunch and my thumb brushed the...
When my neighbor Carol’s husband Frank, who’s seventy-four and has had diabetic neuropathy for fifteen years, sat...
Museums used to be one of my favorite ways to spend a slow Saturday. A big airy...