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I want to know more about TENS stimulation
Neuropathy | Last Active: Aug 30 7:35am | Replies (72)Comment receiving replies
A true tens unit is bought through your doctor. Insurance covers it and you are taught how to use it correctly. I had mRsa bacterial spinal meningitis tens units feel like they burn my nerves in 2002 is when my neuropathy started. It does not cure neuropathy a true tens unit is expensive. I have two I got from my orthopedic surgeon. Nothing cures neuropathy we are taught in anatomy and physiology in college that nerves do not regenerate. As an RN working for a neuromuscular neurologist that is the first thing he said to his patients. I appreciated that he was up front and told his patients to save their money. He told them if all the scams worked we would have been healed a long time ago. I was doing a new continuing education credits that said neuropathy has became more common than MS. There is no cure for MS. Mine I loose the axons and short fibers and the nerve dies off.
What does make a difference is diet. Caffeine stimulates the nerves making them more excitable the more pain,
sugar stimulates the nerves. I have noticed pasta affects mine. Keep a diary document what you are and if you are in pain. Our bread in the US is cancer causing it can’t be sold in the European Union. I buy Ezekiel bread out of the frozen section. I can’t eat red meat most people with neuropathy have gastroparsis (slow digestion) red meat hear to diagest. I eat wild caught fish, free range, antibiotics free chicken and turkey. If I eat breaded fish it hurts.
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I had neuropathy in my right arm. My fingers were numb and my arm would basically go dead every time I threw a baseball or lifted heavy weights. It turned out I had thoracic outlet syndrome. I had the surgery for it which removed my top rib and cut out my outer scalene muscle on April 8th. My neuropathy is gone. So some types of neuropathy can be cured I guess. I still have moderate neuropathy in my feet and believe it is due to the severe spinal stenosis in my lumbar spine. I’m probably going to have a minor decompression surgery in a few months to see if it helps. It makes sense that I have multiple bone spurs rubbing and compressing nerves in my lower back, and my numb feet started in conjunction with the stenosis a couple of years ago. I think it’s time to update those anatomy and physiology books! Then again, doctors still don’t believe that my tos surgery also cured my brain fog. As if entrapped blood vessels and arteries that supply blood to your brain wouldn’t help brain fog when alleviated. That’s what I love about science. It keeps changing.
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Have you tried the Sanexas treatment??
Here is how one of the practitioners who provide Sanexas describe it, and are quite clear that it is related to TENs:
"While Sanexas is similar to using a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation or TENS device, it’s not the same. A TENS unit uses electrical impulses to basically overload your nerves. This means they aren’t able to send as many pain signals to the brain, so you don’t hurt. They do also stimulate endorphins, which have a number of benefits. However, Sanexas treatments go above and beyond TENS therapy. The signals created by the Sanexas ultra-high frequency generator are more effective at treating neuropathy, while a TENS unit is more aimed at simply masking the pain."
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/645606/