You might find this article interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5999027/

That's indeed interesting, because the two cases did not report any symptoms on body parts other than their genitals. This shows that SFN could principally be a cause for PSSD and supports your point.

I think the bottom line at this point is that we need a significant number of people on this forum and the facebook group to get skin biopsy done, preferably those who have a huge range of symptoms following SSRI use. Otherwise we are going to walk in circles in this discussions. What's next? As I s...

KJP21 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:14 amIdiopathic SFN is usually caused be autoimmune reactions that we cannot test for.

I'm not sure if I remember it correctly, but I think IVIG was tested on people with idiopathic SFN and yielded disappointing results.

I have a very strong hunch that many people here have other SFN symptoms that they don't focus on because the sexual ones seem most devastating. Dry skin? Inability to sweat from arms or legs? Tingling, itchiness, prickling? Numbness in other parts of the body? Burning or chills? Any of these can e...

Not the most common symptom at all. With non-length dependent small fiber neuropathy, most common symptom is brain fog, as far as I’ve been told. As far as I know this is not correct. Pain is the most common symptom, regardless whether the neuropathy presents itself length dependent or not. General...