Nerve Inflammation (Neuritis)

A nerve is burning. Or tingling. Or it is no longer delivering clean information — the hand goes numb, the leg responds with a delay, a part of your body feels as though it no longer fully belongs to you. The pain runs along a pathway, not across an area, but precisely: a line of fire moving through your tissue, reminding you that your body is not a silent mass but a finely wired communication network.

Medically, neuritis is an inflammation of one or more nerves — triggered by pressure, infection, metabolic problems, toxicity, autoimmune reactions, or without any clearly identifiable cause. Conduction is disturbed. Something that should flow smoothly catches, fires too much or too little, reports pain where there is no injury, and silence where there should be sensation.