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To: ConservativeMind

I have peripheral neuropathy in my left foot. Its a kind of tingling numbness that I notice mostly when I’m walking for more than a couple minutes. At the same time my left wrist has a kind of nerve pain that only shows up when I stress it with exercise.

My understanding is that alpha lipoic acid may do some good to help restore the myelin around the nerves.

Does it sound like Feverfew extract will be of some benefit here too?


7 posted on 03/09/2024 6:24:20 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

I never had any ,uck with lipoic acid which i took for many months in hopes of restoring feeling-

I have both peripheral neuropathy in my feet from chemo (actually I was getting it before chemo, but the chemo accelerated it), and in my dominant hand due to surgery which severed the main nerve running down the arm (forget what the nerve is called now)

The feet neuropathy feels like my socks are bunched up under the pads of the feet below the toes- and gets quite unnoying at times, even painful. One thing I found that helps some is blue emu he.ps numb the feeling so it isn’t so bad.

I will probsbly try lipoic acid AND fever few together to see if it might help- the hand issue is dangerous as i’ve burnt the hand a couple of times reaching into the oven to remove a roast or whatever, and never felt it, but had pretty good blisters from the burns. Picked up a pan from the inside the oven, thought I had the oven pad over the handle, but didnt, and didnt realize it- got a pretty good burn that time too.


13 posted on 03/10/2024 7:41:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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