The first time I picked up a Lyrica prescription, the pharmacist slid the bag across the counter...
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.
The first winter after my neuropathy became something I had to plan around, I stood at my...
The first time my friend Marie’s husband almost crumpled in their kitchen, she thought he’d had a...
The first time someone in my support group mentioned citicoline, I half-listened. It sounded like another supplement-of-the-month,...
Pull up a chair. I want to talk to you the way I’d talk to a friend...
The first member of our support group I ever heard describe Charcot foot did so in a...
There is a week every October where the maples turn all at once and the yard fills...
When a member of our online community wrote in last spring describing his husband’s sudden, severe right-thigh...
I still remember sitting in my primary care doctor’s office, papers from three different specialists fanned out...
My friend Marge has played piano since she was seven years old. Not lessons-then-quit piano — real...