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@jamessaxo

Hello guys. Did your physician ask if you were a drinker.
Our nerves are coated with a fat called MYELIN. Depending on how much B12 is circulating, myelin is continually replaced. But myelin is sometimes removed or dissolved by alcohol faster than it can be replaced, then nerve pain results. Alcohol does not dissolve fat stores as they have no blood cursing thru. Nerves have alcohol rich blood flowing past them sweeping their insulating myelin. Suggest taking 1000 micrograms METHYLCOBALAMIN , that's B12, daily. And nil alcohol.
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Ray Kemble | @ray666 | 2 days ago

Good morning, James (@jamessaxo)

I was surprised to be asked by one of my neurologist's nurses if I'd ever been a drinker. She was asking me that question in something like 2021 or 2022, yet I had quit drinking waaaay back in the early 1990's, 30+ years ago. She had asked her question because of what she called a 'shadow' on a brain MRI. She went n to say the shadow was nothing about which I need be concerned, but since I had been there to see a neurologist about balance worries, she thought she'd ask. That was the one and only time drinking was mentioned in the many discussions I've had since about my large-fiber PN.

Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)

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