Hello @annashby, Welcome to Connect. Sorry to hear you have joined the neuropathy club. An 80+ year old neurologist that I had an opportunity to listen to at a Minnesota Neuropathy Association meeting back in 2018 commented that if you live long enough you will develop neuropathy as nerves die like any other cells in the body. Mine started in my late 40s but I am fortunate that I just have the numbness and no pain. Before I was diagnosed in 2016 or so one of my PCPs had started me on gabapentin but it didn't help the numbness so I stopped taking it only to find out later from the neurologist that there aren't any drugs that help with the numbness. I shared my neuropathy journey along with other members in another discussion here - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/member-neuoropathy-journey-stories-whats-yours/.

Best suggestion I have is keep doing what you are doing with a healthy diet and exercise and learn as much as you can about your symptoms and what treatments are available that might help. A great site for learning more, including complementary and alternative treatments is the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy - https://www.foundationforpn.org/living-well/.

You might also want to scan through the different discussions in the Neuropathy Support Group to learn what others have shared helped them - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/neuropathy/. Connect has a really nice search function if you want to give it a spin. Here are the search results for "neuropathy what helps" - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/search/?search=neuropathy+what+helps

Have you done any research on complementary or alternative treatments?