Can Balance Be Regained....How?

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Hello All -

I have been told by my Neurologist that my sub-type does not mesh with any of

the already identified sub-types. CMT goes back four generations in my

ancestry. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins have the similar symptoms.

The Neurology team will be bringing a portable test kit, take blood, and do

swabs at my family reunion in a couple of months.

I just have no balance! I've fallen several times and have even fractured my

wrist badly last year. Absent light...things begin spinning and I fall. Uneven

ground ... a real challenge. Without my cane to counter-balance...I fall.

Every waking moment I'm thinking... " balance " or you will fall. Find a wall to

lean on or lay down. These are the only times I can relax and close my eyes.

I'm taking physical therapy for balance but I'm not certain that " dead " sensory

nerves (neuronopathy)in my 6'6 " frame can come to life again. All of my

relatives are very tall like me. Could my family's problem be the length of

these peripheral nerves?

Can balance be regained? I'm 59 years old.

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