Has anyone found a treatment that helps with peripheral neuropathy?

@tatiana987 Can you compare your pain before treatment to after treatment on the infamous 1-10 pain scale? Is this method a specific group of exercises? Thanks.

@deanhobart
Your right...I blame it on Covid but it was really covid induced, It was alcohol we drank more during that time...like a couple of boxes a week... Don't worry we have stopped that long ago... and after some trial an errors(noticing that it would flair up when I drank a little alcohol more than one day in a row ie.., weekends)
But since start TIRZ GLP-2 my desire for it has dropped and I barely drink now and my feet appreciate it..but they still flair up after about 1800 steps... So its not gone...

@casd57 Well, since this is a forum where we help each other, you could have developed neuropathy because of heavy drinking, but it also could have been nutritional deficiency, especially B vitamin like thiamine. The type of alcohol itself could have acted like a neurotoxin - similar to neuropathy from chemotherapy. I suggest you get a kidney and liver panel to see if there is something else you could be doing to recover.

@barryandbrenda I did have severe balance problems and many falls when I was taking Repatha injections. I switched to a different medication and the falls stopped.

Hot weather brings me lots of light-headedness and «presyncope » as the doctors like to call what I call « « heat sickness ». I have a hard time sorting out what causes what at this age.

When I lived in Germany, I had lessons in balance. That involved exercises where I was instructed to move my eyes just before doing the actual movement I intended to make. Eyes show the way and body follows, is the idea. It works to some extend imo. Don’t know the name of the method.

I woukd say level 4 or 5 pain when I moved became 0 most of the time and sometimes a slight 1 when I move.

It seems to me that there ought to be a physical feel good scale like the pain scale. For example, at level 1 nothing hurts and you appreciate that fact, at level 2 you feel a modicum of pleasure at using your body well, at level 3 you are glad and greatful to be alive… and so on. The MacKinsey method for me was a strong 8 or 9 when my breathing worked really well and I slept well for the first time in a long time, NOT a 10 of total exstasy, but really enjoying breathing and sleeping well again.

@heisenberg34 On the specifics of the method, I can only give my impressions. First there was testing and observation where the therapist determined which kind or class of problem I had.. I was class 3, the worst, she said. Then there was warm up like for lots of kinds of therapy. Then you lie on the table and the therapist moves your limbs in ways that feel great. It feels like the gunk is getting rubbed off your nerves by your muscle fibers. The result is functioning, clean nerves that no longer react wrong to what should be normal signals.

There is no science in my description above, just my impressions. I suggest you look at AI for another view.

Get an ice box that when sitting down on the edge of bath so you can immerse your feet in up to the knees...fill it with cold water and chuck a load of ice cubes.
if you have a thermometer, you want to get it to about 10-12C; even cold water from the tap will help.
This is NOT a cure but can give long periods of relief, and its water! so no environmental, chemicals of ''fat pharma!.
WARNING: your nerves are damaged so the water will feel painful to start.just let that pass and let the cold numb the nerves and reduce leg swelling. pleasse let me know if it helps as trying to put a cold water program together and medically there's nothing about this approach.. Good luck Martin Criipps

Add in: I am 83 and fit...me and a mate walked for 32 days the 800k from France to Santiago 3 years ago this October coming...I did not have Nrp then: or diabetic, I just like wine!, but not one to sit down and say thats life, I try anything and the cold water is by far and away the best..it has to be cold (colder the better)..

The principal thought behind this is our bodies are bio-electric so electricity doesn't conduct well in a cold environment.,slow the impulses to the brain down reduces pain...

Nothing new really, as the Vicrtorians where big exponents of cold water therapy in mental health..
It cant be any safer.its WATER!

I just seen that prednisone can make a difference, but there's side effects! Maybe check it out if you're interested! Hope you feel better!