Autonomic Neuropathy

Most people think of neuropathy as a feet-and-hands problem. But the same processes that damage the long sensory nerves can also affect the autonomic nervous system — the network that quietly runs everything you don't think about. When those fibers struggle, the symptoms are strange and easy to misattribute: feeling dizzy or lightheaded when you stand, food sitting heavy long after meals, sweating too much or hardly at all, a heart rate that doesn't respond the way it used to.

Autonomic involvement matters for two reasons. First, some of its symptoms — especially blood-pressure drops, fainting, and heart-rate changes — need proper medical evaluation to rule out conditions that require direct medical management. We take a physician-first posture here: if your history suggests anything that needs a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, or your primary doctor's attention, that referral comes before anything else. Second, autonomic symptoms often ride along with the burning and numbness of peripheral neuropathy, because the same underlying drivers — blood-sugar problems, inflammation, poor circulation — affect both systems.

Our role is supporting overall nervous-system health alongside your medical team: objective testing to understand how your nerves are functioning, care that targets circulation, inflammation, and structural stress on the nervous system, and honest coordination with the physicians managing the medical side. Autonomic neuropathy is a team sport, and we're comfortable saying so.