For decades, neuropathy treatment has been a frustrating story of borrowed drugs. Antidepressants borrowed from depression. Anticonvulsants...
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 warm Saturday of summer last year, my neighbor Margaret called me in tears. She had...
If you’re taking tirzepatide — sold as Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes or Zepbound for weight management...
The first time my friend Margaret took her grandkids to the community pool after her neuropathy diagnosis,...
If you or someone you love is facing chemotherapy — or already has chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)...
If you’ve been living with the burning, shooting pain of diabetic peripheral neuropathy — and you’ve already...
A reader named Carol wrote to me in May with a question I had not been asked...
If you’ve been following the search for new non-opioid nerve pain medications, the name Vertex Pharmaceuticals has...
My friend Margaret called me this past weekend in genuine distress. The temperature in her part of...
If you live with small-fiber neuropathy that no one can pin a cause to — the kind...