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Anyone here dealing with peripheral neuropathy?
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Yes..Started, well at least when I noticed it was January 2023, I suspect Covid as I had it Aug 2022 has caused this there is no other reason since I don't have diabetes.
I've tried everything and everything helps to some degree like
R-ALA
Turmeric
Primrose
Nitric Oxide (circulation) and other circulation herbs
Magnesium
Super B complex
B3
Benfotiamine
Omega
Vit E
D3 + k2
Foot rub/roll-ons
Capsaicin...doesn't work for me
I like the Lidocaine 4% roll-ons the best I use it at night to also helps with restless legs (I put it on my feet)
and I put on my feet before work
Prescriptions
Lyrica seems to work to a point also I hate taking prescriptions so I only take it at night for restless leg or I'll never get any sleep... not every night, Trying to use Primrose instead
If I take to much ..like 300mg a day it makes me goofy/ and balance is a problem so I keep it at 75mg at night when needed
Gapapine(sp?) didnt work as well
At work, my feet start hurting at 1500 steps.. but I think with what I'm taking they recover faster than if didn't take anything.
The worse thing you can do is stay on them after they start hurting... then when you finally get off them the pain is a 10... that's when I have to lay down for like 10mins, if I take breaks...they recover fast and I'm up a moving again..the painless times gets shorter as the day progresses.
It's like they recover overnight(not totally of course) but as I pound on them walking in my job they get more and more sensitive...
My Thoughts:
Could it be circulation related my feet do get purple in spots when the pain comes
Could it be covid related(not shot, I didn't take it)
Will this get worse to the point I can't work?? I'm already a less helpful spouse around the house and yard
Is it worth going to a specialist??? because I think they are probably going to push more drugs at me...
Acupuncture??
One last thing... I play guitar and I feel it in my palms after playing...
Lost........
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Oh my, I feel your pain in every word you write. I have gotten to the point at times when I have been bed ridden or must use a wheelchair. I too do not have diabetes. I do have fibromyalgia. But still no one k ows what has caused the peripheral neuropathy. I am not overweight at all. I have had covid twice but had the condition before the covid. The restless legs are unbearable. I scream myself to sleep at times. I too take Lyrica. I am an author and I can pick at the keyboard with one finger. I however unlike you have pain management. I take a little percocet but it helps temporarily. People in chronic pain, I feel, are being undertreated because of the drug crisis with the population on general. It's very unfair. No one is being helped now I believe unless you are dying. Well I do what I can. I am in pain 24/7. I understand why fibromyalgia sufferers choose to end their lives. That's not me. I have an exciting profession with a distinguished publishing house, so I will continue on despite the pain and pray that eventually the medical profession will "wake up" and treat this chronic pain . Take us seriously please doctors!!!!!