Re: Ritalin and peripheral neuropathy

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Jon,

My experience is this. I was diagnosed with CMT 5 years before I started taking

Ritalin. It helped me tremendously with fatigue and allowed me to have a very

full high school life, not only academic work, but work on the yearbook and

every dance committee (and going to every dance), plus an after school job. I

was on it about 6 years, then off because I started having tremors and my

energy/fatigue was no longer an issue but the tremors were and were treated

differently.

Did the Ritalin make my peripheral neuropathy worse? No. I just carry the

Roussey Levy mutation for tremors. They would have probably appeared sooner if I

had not taken the Ritalin.

Searching here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ for CMT, HMSN, and Ritalin

brings nothing to suggest Ritalin causes PN. You may want to search more under

general PN.

Gretchen