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PN's little "extras": tired knees & swollen feet.

Neuropathy | Last Active: Feb 19 12:52pm | Replies (20)
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@proteusx

I also have swollen feet with my PN. I find taking pycnogenol plus Butcher's Broom works very well to get the swelling down. There are many research papers in support of this, and commercial airline pilot's and others who have to sit for long periods of time (resulting in edema, muscle cramps, deep vein thromboses, etc.) frequently use pycnogenol to prevent these events. I personally use 100 mg of pycnogenol with breakfast, a 500 mg Butcher's Broom at lunch and another at dinner when the swelling is bad. When it levels off, I drop the BB at lunch. Just a suggestion. Hope it helps.

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crossette | @crossette | Feb 19 9:56am

@proteusx Thanks, that sounds promising so I looked up pycnogenol on Wikipedia. It is an extract of Europeon coastal pine bark. They only had this to say about it's medicinal use:

"A 2012 Cochrane Review, updated in 2020, Robertson et al. reviewed the evidence on the efficacy of pine bark extract for treating a wide range of complaints (including asthma, children with ADHD, blood pressure, pain in CVI, reducing fasting blood glucose, osteoarthritis of the knee, cognitive failure in those with traumatic brain injury) and in all cases failed to find evidence to support the efficacy of the extract.[2]"
But they did not mention foot swelling so maybe it works for that!

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