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  • March 26, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    After some more reading it seems that the pure sensory version of CIPD will always show long fibre damage resulting in some degree of loss of joint position sense and vibration sense. In severe cases this leads to sensory ataxia and sensory ataxic gait (difficulty walking because you can’t feel where your feet are).

    This might be how they can distinguish from small fibre neuropathy where the damage is in the small fibers.

    March 26, 2015 at 11:15 am

    jk,

    Thanks for that info. I have no actual numbness. Only the paresthesia (tingling, burning…etc). I would consider my sensory symptoms to be severe (not minor). It feels like my hands/wrist and feet/ankles have frostbite or severe sunburn.

    On what basis were you diagnosed with carpal tunnel? My EMG specifically found minor slowness across the carpal tunnel only. No hand weakness or any other nerve issues.

    I am trying to figure out if this is possible atypical sensory CIPD or is it SFN (small fibre neuropathy). Any way to distinguish these two via specific tests?

    March 26, 2015 at 1:06 am

    This seems to answer that question

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22538310

    March 26, 2015 at 12:56 am

    So can CIPD be purely sensory? I don’t even have the weak feeling let alone true weakness.