Instituut voor Neuropathische Pijn

MGUS is a very rare peripheral neuropathy, usually late-onset in terms of the sufferer's age. It is one of the chronic demyelinating polyneuropathy group, that are mixed motor-sensory nerve affected and symmetrical in the damage caused. Paraproteinaemic Demyelinating Neuropathy may be known by a variety of other titles: MGUS-associated neuropathy, polyneuropathy, Paraprotein-associated demyelinating neuropathy, Paraprotein associated neuropathy/polyneuropathy, CIDP associated with a paraprotein, CIDP associated with MGUS, paraprotein-related or associated demyelinating neuropathy, demyelinating paraproteinaemic neuropathy, MGUS polyneuropathy and Peripheral Neuropathy associated with benign monoclonal gammopathy. We treated the pain, which was refractory to classical analgesics, with a combination of palmitoylethanolamide and low dose naltrexone, and a tiny amount of pregabaline (25 mg and 50 mg) and could reduce the pain for around 50%.

Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, PhD, June 2011