Thread: I guess I might need pain management. What the heck to do?
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Old 02-10-2015, 01:14 PM
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I can offer you empathy; they *suspect* my neuropathy has an autoimmune cause. My bloodwork is mostly negative, however. So it's symptom management for now. I did find that amitriptyline, 50 mg at night helped me sleep by calming the worst of the twitching and nerve "zinging" pain. I am just now starting neurontin.

I'm reading Dr. Terry Wahl's book about diet & MS. From an autoimmune standpoint it's making sense. The changes are quite drastic for me. ;-) I love my gluten and sugar.
Excellent book. I actually asked a question about SFN of Dr. Wahls that made it on to the Paleo Solution Podcast - Episode 252 (about 30 minutes in). Her functional medicine take this condition was very thought provoking.
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