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I have had pheripheral neuropathy for over 30 years but it was diagnosed as gout. Around 4 years ago, after excrutiating pain, I was sent to a rheumatologist who after extensive testing said it wasn't gout and I had never had gout but I better see a neurologist ASAP.
The neurologist put me on Pure Encapsulations (PE) ALA and I take 600 mg 3 times a day. I had an amazing improvement - still numbness but no burning and awful pain. Then two months ago, the pain and burning came back and nothing seemed to help.

Then I realized the burning began when I swiched my multi-vitiamin (PE) Nutrient 950 with Vitamin K because it was out of stock everywhere to PE O.N.E Multivitamin. In going over my papers on neuropathy, there was an article that it was important to get enough B1 to help ALA and other supplements do their work. I checked the amount of B1 in each. My original one had 50 mg and the substitute only had 3 mgs. I immediately took (PE) B-Complex Plus which had 100 mg's in B1 and in 2 days the horrible pain and burning was gone and fortunately Nutrient PE 950 with K is now available again.

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This is so helpful - I can’t thank you enough. I hope I have the same results. This forum is invaluable in being a resource for others to share their successes. Do you have any reflux from that ALA?

Are the pills large and hard to swallow?