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eNews May 2022
Category: Small Fiber Neuropathy
eNews October 2021
FPN Welcomes New Board Member, Kristy Townsend
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy is pleased to welcome our newest Member of the Board of Directors, Kristy Townsend, Ph.D., effective June 1, 2021. Kristy Townsend holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and has been investigating the brain and nervous system in the regulation of energy balance and metabolism for the past 20 years. Townsend is […]
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Jen’s Story: Raising Awareness for PN Brings People Together
When Jen set out to raise awareness for PN, she did more than she expected. Her outreach helped others and brought people together. Jen shares her story here. Jen’s Story I never thought neuropathy would be part of my story. Prior to my diagnosis, I was a healthy 39-year-old writer, health coach, and personal trainer. […]
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FPN Welcomes the University of Michigan and Dr. Amro Stino
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy (FPN) is pleased to welcome the University of Michigan as a new site for patient enrollments into the Peripheral Neuropathy Research Registry. In this article, FPN’s Executive Director interviews the newest researcher to join this special team, Dr. Amro Stino, and why this new partnership will be fruitful for the […]
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Diva’s Story: Self Help for Self Healing!
Diva’s Story: The Beginning Diva’s Story: To ring in the New Year four years ago, I fell off a horse. With all my other injuries, it took me a few days to notice that my left toe had gone just a little bit numb. “So you can’t feel your toe?” “Not really, it’s more like […]
Ask the Expert: Popular Questions from PN Patients
Following the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy‘s (FPN) recent webinar on current research trends, Lindsay Colbert, FPN’s Executive Director, caught up with the program’s panelists, Dr. Senda Ajroud-Driss, Dr. Ahmet Höke and Dr. Gordon Smith to follow-up on some important questions that the program did not have time to cover. In this “Ask the Expert” series, […]
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Neurological Symptoms Following COVID-19
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy asked Dr. Shanna Patterson and Dr. Rory Abrams, FPN’s Patient Education Advisors, what they are seeing in relation to neurological symptoms following COVID-19. The doctors shared the following information. What do we know about COVID-19? COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first described in December 2019 in Wuhan, […]
Pains, chills, fatigue, vomiting and vertigo plague me. Small fiber neuropathy causes it all.
by William Schwalbe More than three years ago, I came down with a mysterious illness I thought might be a flu, but turned out to be something entirely different. My blizzard of symptoms began innocuously in November 2016 with terribly cold feet. So cold that even when I got under the covers with a hot […]
Barry’s Story: A Long Journey with Neuropathy
Peripheral Neuropathy has been a part of my life for 18 years! I first experienced PN when I was taking my son to visit a college in 2001. I had random stabs of nerve pain all over my body. I went to a neurologist who did all of the tests – I even went to […]
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