I finally found something that helps with nerve pain and no doctor recommended it.
I just stumbled on it by chance.
Glad to hear it. And what would that something be exactly?
Ditto, my question too!
Was it st johns wort / hypericum, or benfotiamine, or?
Sorry to take so long getting back. That left sidebar gives me a pain but I check in every so often anyway.No, it's none of the one you mentioned, I tried them all. I also tried a lot of other things recommended like fish oil, thats good for health but did nothing for nerve discomfort. Lets see, q10, b vites, ldn, and all the usual supps or most of the usual ones. I tried neprinol which is an expensive enzyme which is supposed to do away with blood clots which might cause the problem. Nothing and I spent probably a couple hundred on that alone. I'll give it to everyone free of charge because that's what we are all here for. We don't keep good stuff to ourselves, we share and all gain from it.
I didn't want to go ot with a long thing if no one was interested but if even 2 people are, then I hope the rest will excuse me for this ot post. It's quite simple actually, an ordinary amino acid. It's not even expensive. It's called l glutamine and I got mine from smart powders. Mods, if this is considered spamming just redact the name of the vendor and leave the rest, please.OK, I paid $17 something on sale and shipping was $8. So far so good. What you do is take 10 gm tid or 3x per day. A level tsp is about 3gm so a just slightly heaping tbs is about 10 gm. Cost is only 90 cents a day tops. I found benefit the first day and even more the second day. You can taper off slightly after you get to max benefit, perhaps 25, play with it a little. But when I went below 20 the discomfort started coming back.
No promises or guarantees. The stuff that worked for diabetics did not work for me. I have no idea if it works for ms or not. Might be worth a shot. Same for diabetic neuropathy. Mine is idiopathic which is doctor talk for "we don't have a clue" It does not remove all the discomfort, I'd estimate up to 80% but that is including sitting the right way, not resting my arms on lumpy stuff etc. I recently bought 2 more kilos and the shipping averaged way down.
I've searched google for years, various search terms but it never came up. I lurked on neuropathy forums but no one mentioned it. Want to know how I found it? I googled "galantamine neuropathy" and they said do you mean glutamine neuropathy? I was about to be annoyed and surf away but I glanced down and saw all the positive reviews. So never give up. If top doctors say there is nothing that can be done, you just have to keep searching.Reason for edit, trying to get it to format
Edited by adamh, 25 September 2011 - 11:37 PM.