Federal Pell Grants are another source of free money for college. Federal Pell Grants, the largest source of federally funded grants, are awarded solely based on your financial need (academic grades and extra-curricular activities arenât a factor). The maximum award for the 2017-18 academic year is $5,920.
These are only a few examples of diseases and conditions that can cause nerve damage and nerve pain. Others include repetitive stress, vitamin deficiencies, hormone imbalances, heart disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Lyme disease, alcoholism, and more.
Usually, it's damage from a physical injury or disease. 1  Cancer and other tumors can cause nerve pain. 2  As they grow, tumors can press on the surrounding nerves. 3  Cancers can also grow out of the nerves themselves. 4  Sometimes, treatments for cancer -- such as chemotherapy drugs -- can damage the nerves, leading to pain.ut in people with nerve pain, that messaging system isn't working correctly. Your brain receives a pain signal, and you feel the pain, but there's no actual cause. Now, it's just pain without a purpose -- and because there's no cause, there's no immediate way to relieve it.