peripheral neuropathy

Let me try to explain peripheral neuropathy.

It seems like my fingers are numb -that makes it harder to type, and it makes it impossible to pick up a button off the floor. Right now up to the first knuckle - but sometimes it spreads up my fingers and sometime even my hands.

But at the same time, it feels like those pin-prick sensations when your hand or foot has fallen asleep. So you feel both numb and pain - weird.

The pain is small, and nearly constant - just enough to keep me from falling asleep sometimes. Of course now I have the rads burns, and some pain meds, so the neuropathy doesn't bother me now - kinda like an old joke : I can't feel the pain in my hands because of hitting my head on the desk to make a larger pain.

Well , that didn't sound like a joke even to me...