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Newly diagnosed with Neuropathy - Advice?

Neuropathy | Last Active: Sep 12 8:15am | Replies (49)

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@duh1eye

Thank you, John, for your speedy and helpful response. I have just begun to peruse the extensive Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy website, and your suggestions will give me a good place to begin my exploration. Fortunately, I have not experienced pain, so I have not yet needed pain relief. I began 600 mg/day of ALA, a couple of weeks ago, and I just ordered r-ALA, which I’ve read is more effective. I will likely switch to that when it arrives. Other than staying physically active, doubling down on a healthy diet, and making sure I get good sleep, that’s about all I’ve done, to this point. I have had a series of Bemer treatments, which have helped my knee arthritis, but I’m unsure about its potential help for FM. I’m open to suggestions re that.

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I would advise you not to rush into any kind of surgery unless it is an emergency. I had a spinal fusion in 2017 for supposed spondylithesis (two adjacent vertebrae out of alignment). Previous MRIs showed nothing remarkabke. but a new orthopaedic surgegeon orderd another one.
that's when he said I had the condition. I was fairly new to the pain game, so I went ahead with the surgery. Did it help with my pain? No. Did it correct the condition? Possibly. Who knows? If I could go back in time,I would get a second, even third opinion and would think long and hard about having back surgery.