My legs collapsing underneath me without warning since I’ve been on ga

Posted by woody52 @woody52, May 10 1:31pm

Eight years ago I moved back to Wisconsin and during that time I noticed my hands shaking and enrolled at my old family hospital
I was prescribed Propaninal and within months it eliminated most of my hand shaking
About a year or so later I was in the same hospital network and had an emergency visit where they crated my chest and found a minor anuryism on my aorta
At that time my doctor stopped the propaninol and put me on gabapentin for my tremors
It took over a year to start helping with the ET’s in my hands
At about same time my back was aching terribly and saw orthopedic team at same hospital and they said gabapentin would relieve pain and increased dosage
At that time my legs would give out under me
Now my legs can’t navigate going down stairs without my collapsing of which I’ve done now over 6 times in last year
I walk 3-6 miles a day but with no confidence my legs will hold me up
I’m 72 snd 150lbs staying in very good shape
Until gabapentin
My legs collapsing underneath is increasing and it’s really affecting my life style
The propaninol worked but doctor switched me to gabapentin of which has crippled me in doing steps
And suggestions

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I had a chiropractor who specialized in diabetes change my diet radically, and as a result got a lot of body pain. He told me to use a glutathione cream for the pain, which worked amazingly well. I used a lot of it over the next few months, then gradually stopped as the pain resolved. Years later, when I developed the legs collapsing thing, I happened to use the cream for another pain issue, and figured out over the next few months that I fell less while using glutathione cream and researched glutathione generally, including many bodily effects, how it is made in all cells, but mainly in the liver, what to do to boost the liver, what I had to have in my diet to make more of it, etc. I don’t think I’d have gotten there, except for the initial clue with the cream (which, by the way, costs about $100 for a little bottle). You can buy glutathione pills. I bought some powdered glutathione from Bulksupplements.com (again, very expensive) and experimented to make my own cream. Tried a dozen water- and oil-based substances and creams to mix it with, all unsuccessfully. It would just NOT mix smoothly with anything. I couldn’t afford to buy the $100 glutathione cream, at least enough to use to keep my legs from collapsing. Finally, I tried mixing it with hair conditioner on a whim. It worked. It is still the only thing I’ve found that it will mix with smoothly. If you want to try it, any cheap hair conditioner. The glutathione absorbs through the skin. It leaves a sticky film that then dries, semi-sticky. Not ideal, but it works. Anyway, the real answer, after all the research is to get your body to make it. Buy or if you can find one in a library, at least read a book about glutathione (one written for lay people—I bought a huge scientific book for over $100 and could make NO sense of it. I’m not that smart, just persistent and desperate.). Take milk thistle (the most commonly recommended liver stimulant) and from the book figure out what you need to eat for the liver to do its job. I use lots of greens (often powdered spinach and other veggies mixed in V8, if you can’t eat enough). I later read somewhere else in my research that sulfur is also needed, so I started eating dried, sulfured fruits—one of the few easy sources of sulfur, since that’s how they preserve peaches and apricots to dry so they don’t go black (which they do if they don’t sulfur them). Long story semi-short, if glutathione is the answer to your falling problem, as it is mine, take milk thistle and change your diet. If it helps a little, stick with it and it will eventually build up in your system and heal your liver so that you will eventually not have your legs collapse. You will still probably be clumsy and, if you trip, not be able to catch yourself as normally people do. I still take a fall now and then if I trip. But before I figured it all out, I fell literally thousands of times, mostly in the garden. If you rely on cream or pills, you will “burn through” the amount of glutathione quite quickly, fall, and have to take more. So really, just go to diet. I hope this works for you. If this isn’t your problem, and you don’t have MS or some other autoimmune disease, I have no idea where to go from there. (Even if you have MS or parkinsons, or something like that, I’m convinced if you do the glutathione thing it will make your symptoms less severe, but I’m not sure, since I don’t have any of the major disorders, just the symptom). I will tell people with the disorders about this as I meet them, and may figure out if it works on them, but meanwhile, I tell people who fall randomly, hoping it will help them. It took me years to figure it out and I’d like to help people get there if I can.

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Thank you very much for your input
Much appreciated
Milk thistle B6 and magnesium will be my new diet
I’ll be cooking Thai with dried apricots, of which, with large Sunkist Prunes as an alternative to break it up a bit will be supported by green and red peppers serving as support team to my peanut cashew chicken
This forum has been so incredibly helpful!!
Thank you ever so much

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Not doing it yet
Need to have that god awful Gabupentin flushed from system
I’ll be starting in July
I’ll be mixing milk thistle with B6 and magnesium
I’ve been receiving multiple response on this forum supporting same approach
Sorry I’m still in the research phase

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@woody52

Thank you very much for your input
Much appreciated
Milk thistle B6 and magnesium will be my new diet
I’ll be cooking Thai with dried apricots, of which, with large Sunkist Prunes as an alternative to break it up a bit will be supported by green and red peppers serving as support team to my peanut cashew chicken
This forum has been so incredibly helpful!!
Thank you ever so much

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If you have trouble sleeping, I suggest using Melatonin. Somewhere in my research, I remember reading that it supports or is broken down into glutathione. I have been using it since, and it does seem to help increase glutathione.

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I make my own capsules (size 0) and take one or two a day, but you’ll have to take for a week or two before it’s built up in your body, so if you take more, it’ll get there faster. You can buy pre-filled capsules at a reasonable price, as an alternative at any health food store.

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If glutathione works for you, let me know. I’ve been telling my story and suggesting glutathione to various people for a couple of years now, and no one has gotten back to me to say that it works for them. I’d like to figure out the commonalities of this with other people so I can try to get the word out to those it can help. I don’t want to write a book or make money off it or anything. I just want to figure out how it can help more people. It took me years to figure out how to help myself, and I would love to be able to get the info out to others. Thanks.

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