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Neuropathic pain is nerve pain that can happen if your nervous system malfunctions or gets damaged. You can feel pain from any of the various levels of your nervous system, including your peripheral nerves, your spinal cord and your brain.
If you experience shooting or burning pain anywhere in your body and it’s started affecting your quality of life, you may be experiencing warning signs of neuropathic pain. Understanding different kinds of pain and what causes them may help diagnose your condition and utilize effective treatment.
With neuropathic pain, the body sends pain signals to your brain unprompted. Here's what causes it and what you can do.
While the terms neuralgia and neuropathic pain, or neuropathy, are similar they mean different things. Neuropathy is damage to a nerve caused by disease or injury to the nervous system.
If you’re experiencing something that feels more like burning, stabbing, or shooting pain ― especially if there also is numbness or tingling ― it’s likely to be neuropathic pain. This means there is direct damage or irritation to a nerve. “It can cause a lightning strike type of electric pain,” says Dr. King.
Neuralgia is a type of pain that’s caused by a nerve problem, and neuropathy is a type of nerve damage.
People with peripheral neuropathy usually describe the pain as stabbing, burning or tingling. Sometimes symptoms get better, especially if caused by a condition that can be treated. Medicines can reduce the pain of peripheral neuropathy.