Get the word out
Despite affecting an estimated 190 million people world-wide, peripheral neuropathy (PN) isn’t well known. Let’s spread PN awareness to help speed up diagnoses, create more research funding and expand available treatments while searching for cures.
Awareness increases progress
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week is May 3-9, 2026!
Are you a PN patient and want to get involved now? Petition your hometown to honor PN awareness week with a proclamation. Use our template to submit to your local municipality.
Let us know about your proclamation
If you’re successful, send us the details! [email protected]
The more people who know about PN, the more progress we can make through research and advocacy
PN can be painful, frustrating, and hard to explain, especially when most people have never heard of it. Many people with PN feel ignored or misunderstood because their pain is invisible. Raising awareness helps others see that PN is real and serious. When more people understand PN, it encourages doctors and scientists to care, listen, and look for better answers. Awareness also brings patients together, reminds them they are not alone, and gives them hope that change is possible.
More on PN from the national institutes of healthWear your PN shirt!
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May awareness week
The first full week in May is PN awareness week. That week, we really push to mobilize the PN community to expand our reach. Watch for updates in spring.
A proclamation for PN
Are you a PN patient? Petition your hometown to honor PN awareness week with a proclamation. Use our template to submit to your local government.
1 in 11
Americans has PN
70%
Diabetics get PN
Over 100
Causes of PN
Although PN Awareness Week is in May, we work to get the word out year round
Share your story
Share your experience with diagnosis, treatment or daily life adjustments that help contribute to a high quality of life for you or a loved one after PN entered the picture. You can even submit your story for possible inclusion in our print newsletter or blog, just fill out the form.
Connect with us, expand our reach
Follow us. Visit our pages frequently, (because of algorithms, you only see an estimated 20% of the content shared by those you follow in your feed) like and share our content. Then invite your friends to follow us, too!
Vote, advocate for peripheral neuropathy
Show up at the polls. Write to your representatives. Talk to your neighbor about PN and what can be done with more research funding.
Learn more, educate others
Our free resource library is constantly growing. Whether you’re learning about your initial options as a newly diagnosed patient, or about a parent’s condition so you can offer more support
Support our mission
Help improve the lives of those with PN. Your contribution helps us support research and provide an improved quality of life for those affected.