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Hi I just found out recently I had neuropathy

Neuropathy | Last Active: Jun 16 1:07pm | Replies (51)
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@memyselfi

This may not be politically or medically correct to say, but a little bit of drink is the ONLY thing that has ever taken the edge off my neuropathic pain so far. Just saying.

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Ray Kemble | @ray666 | Mar 25 4:58pm

Hello, memyselfi (@memyselfi)

I'm not an authority on this, but as a recovered alcoholic (35 years' sobriety) and someone with idiopathic polyneuropathy, I can share what I've been told by a number of neurologists and their NPs: that it takes a hefty amount of drinking over a longish period of time before alcohol can be thought of as a possible suspect.

I drank rather heavily beginning in my late teens, then on through my 20s, 30s, and into my 40s (I'm 79 today). I hadn't made an alcohol/neuropathy connection until only two years ago when one of my neurology NPs pointed out a "shadow" on a brain MRI. "That's very likely not the cause of your present-day balance issues," she said. "But heavy alcohol use will leave is trace, even decades later."

I'm reasonably sure the "little bit of drink" you mention is OK.

Ray (@ray666)

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larry68 | @larry68 | Mar 25 7:40pm

Whatever works for you!! I am just saying i could not walk or talk till i went alchohol free.

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