TABLE 1.
Symptom of Neuropathy
| Various Symptoms of Neuropathic Pain | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Spontaneous Symptoms | Spontaneous burning sensation | Evoked Symptoms | Allodynia to touch |
| Deep ache in limbs | Allodynia to cold | ||
| Stinging or prickly sensations | Hyperalgesia | ||
| Shock-like lancinating Paroxysmal shooting electrical pain | Hyperpathia (evoked pain is maintained after the stimulus is terminated) | ||
| Nonpainful Symptoms of Neuropathy | |||
| Hyperesthesia | Increased sensitivity to sensory stimuli. Includes nonpainful stimuli, but can include allodynia and hyperalgesia | ||
| Paresthesia | Not unpleasant abnormal sensation | ||
| Dysesthesia | Unpleasant, but not painful, abnormal sensation | ||
| Hpoesthesia/hypoalgesia | Increased threshold and/or decreased sensitivity to sensory stimuli | ||