Mea Culpa! Need to correct a previous post I made re: using R-Alpha Lipoic Acid to help PN.

I’m 86 and have been dealing with idiopathic, non-diabetic progressive PN in both feet and hands for about 10 years now.

Around last December I made a change adding three daily capsules of Dynamic Nerve to my daily regimen, primarily because of its 200 mg ALA content. Also increased my daily Life Extension 283 mg R-ALA to three capsules daily giving me a total of nearly 1500 mg daily. Simultaneously I noticed a small improvement in my PN which I credited to the ALA, perhaps an error. After three months of some PN relief, in mid-March the PN came roaring back with a vengeance, no change in supplements.

Last week, for another problem, I began a regimen of 40 mg of prednisone daily and surprisingly my PN began to recede again. Only then did I realize that I had done the exact same steroid treatment near the end of last year also about the same time as the ALA increase.

Conclusion…It may be either the prednisone alone (logical, should have figured that out) or in synergy with the ALA that has helped to slightly modify the PN
(now mostly just numbness but little pain) and it may only last three months after I stop the steroids but I’ll take it.

Sincerely hope this info is helpful and that my previous post didn’t mislead anyone. PN is a terrible disease and I find most neurologists only treat it by prescribing masking meds like Gabipentin, etc. that I won’t take. We can pray there will be a cure somewhere, somehow… Hopefully Mayo will find it for us.
Meanwhile we can be grateful just for life itself.