Alcohol Neuropathy???

Posted by purplewillow @purplewillow, Jan 21, 2020

Hello All, I just found this group and I am so thankful to have found this! I am so frustrated with our medical system here is Santa Rosa, Ca. It takes months to get an appointment with anyone.... Please read my story and any feedback or information would be so helpful. So I live in Wine Country, and last year beginning in Oct. 2017, I lost four family members, my baby brother, two sister-in-laws and my best friend just in July 019. I started to drink more and more wine everyday. Sometimes up to a bottle a night. On Jan. 2, 2020 I decided to stop, cold turkey. By the fourth day, I woke up at 3:00 am with stabbing, burning pain going up and down my legs and the bottom of my feet. My calf muscles were so sore as if I had run a marathon the day before. I went in (on a Saturday to a doctor, not my primary care physician), and explained my symptoms and that I had quit drinking just recently. She gave me a referral to have a nerve conduction test and physical therapy. I had blood work done and I don't have diabetes and my Vitamin B-12 level was VERY high, I think because I had taken vitamin B-12 supplements the day before the blood test, but all in all my blood test results were all good. I can't get an appointment for the nerve test until the end of March! In the meantime, I went to my chiropractor and explained everything to him, he said all that nerve pain was from going through alcohol withdrawal. He said I should have weened myself off instead of cold turkey. So, I went home and had a glass of wine and the next day I felt better. BUT, I am so nervous that I have damaged my nerves and I can't get help for another 6-8 weeks. Has anyone experienced this? Could this nerve pain be something else?

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gregd1956 | @gregd1956 | Jun 8 1:52pm

Dear purplex,
You’ve been tough places with lost your families & best friend. I’m sorry for that and No wonder you needed a different problems.

Now, my psyical (sp?) problem killed the pain from the back of my legs from my rear-ends to the bottom of my legs. I had a falling-down and hit my rear-ends. That started for 2 years - pain, little feeling the bottom of right-side - my balance died in my lower side that causes “falling down”. That includes hitting my rear-ends when falling down.

Two mths ago, I went to a good doctor & he added the photos of his diagnose was the bottom of my back to the top of my right-end on my right-side. I had a choice: 1. Take my meds as it is; 2. Let him add a better pain med; 3. Or he could help me from a surgery but it could not work as well…

I choose “3. Surgery”. That was a 6-9 hour day when he fixed in his surgery fixing part of my back and moved the largest “nerve” that he found in my back. I sent 5-days at that hospital.

Each day got better. When I went home, the pain was gone. I need & needed to exercise my body from my rear-ends to the lowest of my legs. Stretching, lifting, moving down and back.

The pain is gone, BUT my balance is not there, but daily it’s better. Yes, it’s easy to fall down; it’s hard to move diff ways. Pain meds? That’s gone, too.

Years ago, I’ve been seen these bands when paying at large bldgs from Baltimore, Va, Washington DC. As years go, some of these players/musicians closed of young folks died… many of drugs - cocaine is a big one; some died of cancer; some died from accidents.

Be careful from drinking wine. I🙏🏻

t I went that time, living in this hospital and spent 5 days. Nerve sent in our