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DiscussionHas anyone tried treatment for diabetic neuropathy?
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I get relief at night with medical cannabis. Very helpful for sleeping.
Thank you for explaining this very insightful
John, I'm adding the ProPublica Dollars for Doctors website for people to check what, if any, income their doctors are receiving from med equipment or drug makers. The 'pain industry,' sadly enough, can be very profitable and has had a history of questionable stuff being pushed into the market that fails the test of time.
I write as someone who was told by two orthopedic surgeons that I would be 'in a wheelchair 'for the rest of my life if I didn't have back surgery and intervertebral papain injections a few decades ago.
I got a second opinion (my own) and skipped both treatments. It took 6-8 months of physical therapy and acupuncture to quiet back spasms and I've been fine ever since. According to an article in The New York Times a few years later, papain injections fell out of favor due to (a word we hate to see in ref to medical protocols) unintended side effects. Caveat emptor...