You know that moment when you stand up and realize you can’t quite feel the floor beneath...
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.
Every few months, someone writes to me about a medication their doctor prescribed off-label that actually made...
I still remember the first message I received from a woman named Carol. She’d been losing strength...
When my friend Gloria called me in tears last spring, I could hear the frustration in her...
When your legs start feeling weak — when climbing stairs feels harder than it should, or your...
I started keeping a symptom diary about two years into my neuropathy journey, mostly out of desperation....
For the first year after my neuropathy symptoms became serious, I stopped going to restaurants entirely. It...
You’re lying in bed and your hand starts tingling. You shake it out, but it comes back....
A standing desk looks like it should be great for neuropathy. Standing instead of sitting, moving more,...