Nerve Pain
To these do look surprisingly similar. There is a 10% difference with Severe with GBS having less. I think that the the CIDP figures look representative. The GBS ones seem way too high for an acute condition, unless the vast majority of people who filled in the survey still have GBS? Surely the majority of GBS sufferers should be over their condition and have no pan after the illness has passed? This does need further clarification.
When you get to the differences between gender, they are also significant. With exactly the same trending as with GBS/CIDP, with females suffering from considerably more pain than males! Maybe men are hardier after all?
I am aware of the issues with self diagnosis of how each person regards a level of pain/discomfort. My view is that this is usually based on a previous reference point, thus if you have had severe pain in the past, you can gauge what you have for GBS/CIDP against that and it doesn't seem so bad. This is certainly the case for me, as I have had a severely broken leg (when I was 9) and can remember the initial pain from that as being excruciating, so when comparing my nerve pains today with that I would rate this at around 6 or 7 (as simply I can put up with it, whereas before I could not).
I am aware of the issues with self diagnosis of how each person regards a level of pain/discomfort. My view is that this is usually based on a previous reference point, thus if you have had severe pain in the past, you can gauge what you have for GBS/CIDP against that and it doesn't seem so bad. This is certainly the case for me, as I have had a severely broken leg (when I was 9) and can remember the initial pain from that as being excruciating, so when comparing my nerve pains today with that I would rate this at around 6 or 7 (as simply I can put up with it, whereas before I could not).
Looking at when people get nerve pain.
This to me looks curious and worthy of more inspection, as 45% of people who get nerve pain get it all the time, yet between the other categories it is fairly similar, though evening/night have higher numbers. I would have expected to see patterns around whether lots of activity or none (e.g. night) - which in my case is when I get the vast majority of my issues (especially at 2:00 in the morning). Maybe we are less active in both the evening and night....
Trying to compare differences between GBS & CIDP - clearly, though these is an increase in the numbers with nerve pain between GBS & CIDP, the relative numbers are remarkably similar. This would seem to indicate is is consistent across the two conditions.
This to me looks curious and worthy of more inspection, as 45% of people who get nerve pain get it all the time, yet between the other categories it is fairly similar, though evening/night have higher numbers. I would have expected to see patterns around whether lots of activity or none (e.g. night) - which in my case is when I get the vast majority of my issues (especially at 2:00 in the morning). Maybe we are less active in both the evening and night....
Trying to compare differences between GBS & CIDP - clearly, though these is an increase in the numbers with nerve pain between GBS & CIDP, the relative numbers are remarkably similar. This would seem to indicate is is consistent across the two conditions.
Ironically when I did the graph for male and female it looks almost exactly the same as the one from above. It is remarkably consistent too (which is why I decided to do this chart using the number of people to confirm the point).
Logically this can only lead to one conclusion -
"All the females have CIDP and all the males have GBS!"
Hang on if you look at the severity of nerve pain this closely matches up there, so it must be true?
Logically this can only lead to one conclusion -
"All the females have CIDP and all the males have GBS!"
Hang on if you look at the severity of nerve pain this closely matches up there, so it must be true?
The next area of nerve pain is where people have it.
The next two graphs tend to follow the trend of all the other "feelings" charts, whereby the extremities are most affected with the feet/toes being marginally ahead of the hands and fingers. I presume the toes are slightly less than the feet because, unlike the fingers which are the most used parts of the body, the toes are not used - well that certainly applies to me (no pencil picking up ever again!). We all know immediately if our fingers have issues.
By comparing GBS & CIDP the relationships between the areas is more or less the same, but the numbers are higher with CIDP, which is to be expected.
The next two graphs tend to follow the trend of all the other "feelings" charts, whereby the extremities are most affected with the feet/toes being marginally ahead of the hands and fingers. I presume the toes are slightly less than the feet because, unlike the fingers which are the most used parts of the body, the toes are not used - well that certainly applies to me (no pencil picking up ever again!). We all know immediately if our fingers have issues.
By comparing GBS & CIDP the relationships between the areas is more or less the same, but the numbers are higher with CIDP, which is to be expected.
Comparing men and women, as with other charts, seems to bear out the theory that men complain less?
Seriously the data seems to bear this out, but we all know that this blatantly isn't true!
Though why is it the one area that men complained more was around the stomach?? (must be to do with food!)
Hang on this bears out my original thoughts about who has what disease (as again they look very similar) Wow!
Seriously the data seems to bear this out, but we all know that this blatantly isn't true!
Though why is it the one area that men complained more was around the stomach?? (must be to do with food!)
Hang on this bears out my original thoughts about who has what disease (as again they look very similar) Wow!