NEUROPATHY-SYMPTOMS

SUMMARY

NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
1. Motor: weakness
2. Sensory: sensory ataxia, loss of fine touch, proprioception & temperature sensation

POSITIVE SYMPTOMS (INAPPROPRIATE, SPONTANEOUS NERVE ACTIVITY)
3. Motor: cramps, twitching
4. Sensory: pain, paraesthesia, allodynia, hyperaesthesia

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION
5. Early satiety, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea
6. Impotence, urinary incontinence
7. Postural hypotension, cutaneous vasomotor changes, cold extremeties
8. Abnormal sweating (hyper/an-hidrosis)

Reference(s)

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