peripheral neuropathy

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Suzi...Yes, yes, and yes. I have also given up

caffeine, aspartame, meat, & dairy, drink only water

or fresh juice, eat only live or steamed veggies. The

pain is not as bad as it was a year ago, before the

changes in diet, but never gone. I refuse to take all

the & ^%$#@ (explicative deleated) crap that the doctor

prescribes for pain, because it knocks me out, makes

me loopy, and doesn't begin to fix the problem. The

neurontin is an anti convulsive nervine, and helps.

There is no generic form of it (in the US anyway...in

Canada there is...have bought neurontin/gabapenten

there before) However, I will soon be off neurontin,

because I can no longer afford it. What little I have

left, I'm tapering off, because if you go cold turkey,

massive seizures result.

....windflower

p.s. for those of you who may not know what

peripheral neuropathy is...imagine a frayed electrical

wire. if you touch the place where the covering is

frayed, the electrical current takes a shortcut...

through you. The current goes haywire, not to the

intended place. PN is a nerve disease, like multiple

sclerosis, where the myelin sheath of the nerves is

" frayed " sending wrong signals... burning, searing,

stabbing, intense pain for no reason whatsoever, to

the brain. At the same time, legitimate pain is

ignored, so if i step on a piece of glass and cut off

half my toe, i don't realize it until i see the blood

all over the floor. (happened) according to my

medico, there is no cure, just pain pills and sleeping

pills to keep me loopy. Arrgh!

 

--- Suzanne <suziesgoats wrote:

> Windflower,

> have you ever done a total body cleanse...

> (curious)... and I assume your diet is good...

> Have you tried the nerve formula in the files (not

> the sedative)...and I'm thinking DMSO would be a

> plus... I would give Doc a call on this...

> Suzi