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What Causes For Getting Neuropathy?

I have a diagnosed small fiber neuropathy. My sypmtoms include fatigue, constant horrible nerve pain, and numbness. I also experience petechiae from pressure (my arm is covered from the blood pressure cuff after getting my blood pressure taken). I am a 24 year old female. Any ideas for underlying conditions that could be causing the neuropathy?
Mon, 1 Jun 2015
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Hi I did review your concern.
Your condition requires expert care in form of specific investigations for finding cause of small nerve neuropathy including a skin biopsy, work up for diabetes, vitamin deficiency or other multitudes of diseases.
also concomitant petechiae need to be seen differently right now as in by doing a complete coagulation profile.
In a young female, i would suspect autoimmune disorder like systemic lupus erythematous which such different system findings and do ANA and dsDNA as well as anti smith antigen assay.
I hope this helps
Let me know if you have any more questions or concerns and I will try to help you with best of my abilities.
Wish you all the best
sincerely,
Dr Parth Desai
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What Causes For Getting Neuropathy?

Hi I did review your concern. Your condition requires expert care in form of specific investigations for finding cause of small nerve neuropathy including a skin biopsy, work up for diabetes, vitamin deficiency or other multitudes of diseases. also concomitant petechiae need to be seen differently right now as in by doing a complete coagulation profile. In a young female, i would suspect autoimmune disorder like systemic lupus erythematous which such different system findings and do ANA and dsDNA as well as anti smith antigen assay. I hope this helps Let me know if you have any more questions or concerns and I will try to help you with best of my abilities. Wish you all the best sincerely, Dr Parth Desai