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Why Your Doctor Asked About Your Drinking

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If you have been investigated for numbness, burning or tingling in your feet, somebody will have asked how much you drink. For a lot of people that question lands awkwardly. It can feel like an accusation, or like being sent down a route that has nothing to do with the problem you came in with. It is neither. It is on the list because alcohol is one of the recognized causes of nerve damage, and because it is one of the few causes where there is something concrete to be done.

How to Safely Navigate Your Home With Numb Feet

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Your home was designed for someone who can feel their feet.

That’s not a criticism of your house — it’s true of essentially every home. The floor surfaces, the lighting, the water temperature, the thresholds between rooms all assume a person receiving accurate sensory information from the ground up. When that information degrades, the same house becomes a different environment. Nothing has changed except your ability to detect what’s happening in it. So here’s a walk through, room by room. Not a general safety lecture — the specific things that matter when sensation is reduced.