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# peripheral motor-sensory neuropathy!!
I don't quite know what that is, but it sounds very bad.

like the effects of leprosy, or something.
(, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:03, archived)
# makes your hands and feet go numb
and painful and in bad cases can end up in amputation. My father has it in relation to his diabetes.
(, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:09, archived)
# Regrettably I can't read the cited article without a journal subscription
but I suspect it means people started falling over a lot, and couldn't speak properly or pick things up. Sounds like being drunk, in fact. Except peripheral would mean it doesn't affect the brain. So like being drunk without the euphoria.
(, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:13, archived)
# It's more like
having permanent, painful pins and needles my father says but in very bad cases, like in Hanson's disease it is very easy for sufferers to damage the extremities ( my father is not even allowed to cut his own nails ( not that he could reach his toes ) for fear of damaging them) and in cases where people don't look after themselves to well before you know it you have gangrene in your limbs.
(, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:16, archived)
# Irritating, the ability of meaningless illness-related pain to persist forever.
You might think that eventually you could learn to ignore it, like start thinking "this is just an erroneous nerve signal I've been getting for years now and I'm no longer going to let it bother me," but no.
(, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:30, archived)