Hello John, and thank you for the welcome. I've not posted for several days, being too busy feeling sorry for myself....yeah, some days are like that....I was thinking I should move my answer to the "member journey" discussion, but it's really so short I'll just post it here, and you can move it if you think that would be better. Basically, what I have is radiculopathy in the lumber spine. Yes, I am following the Spine Health group, but recently I've been doing some reading about Peripheral Neuropathy, to see if any ideas might be applicable to my condition, which is mainly "numbness, but no pain." When I found this particular topic in the Neuropathy group I was immediately interested in reading what you all had to say. I'm particularly intrigued by the idea of various supplements to improve nerve health, but right now I can't determine if they would help in my case....so still reading.....

Let's see, what else? Well, I was diagnosed in 2019 with "moderate to severe stenosis." Went immediately to PT and the symptoms stabilized after 3 months to just mild numbness in the right foot and ankle. Figured I could live with that for the rest of my life, doing the PT exercises at home; would be content if it never got worse. But eventually it did, starting this past January. Numbness increasing in the right leg, and now has started in the left. Back to PT. Occasional use of ibuprofen + acetaminophen eases the worst symptoms, but I know I can't keep taking them for the long term. So really don't know where I'm going next, what I'm doing next. I'm 75 (and yes, my name is Pat) and just trying to hold it together for these last 20 years of my life.

Lifestyle changes? We've always eaten healthful food (I cook all our meals "from scratch"; we're active; and we get 8 hrs sleep every night. Such changes as have occurred are all owing to increasing age ("slowing down") and to these miserable symptoms from the radiculopathy. So there we are.