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Old 06-18-2007, 05:03 PM
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Julie, what your doctor is doing doens't seem unreasonable. Sounds like he or she is going through the arsenal of medications for neuropathy, and trying them one by one, or one and one. I'm not a puritan about narcotics, but in my experience, they often cause as much trouble as they solve, and so they really should be a last resort. If you need them, you need them, but trying the non narcotis is important.

There's a sticky which lists all the drugs commonly used for pn, and it's thorough. The antidepressants are very helpful, and you could probably be helped more by being on one. Or Elavil, in small doses, before bed. I take 40mg of elavil and it deepens my sleep or lightens the pain or something, but it allows me to sleep through.

There are other things to do===if your feet are burning, a bag of frozen peas;' it they're cold, warm wax from a hot wax machine. Lotion. The Rebuilder or a TENS unit. All these are ways of coping without going to stronger pills that have a larger side effect spectrum.

Hope you try some an dfind some help.
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--- LYME neuropathy diagnosed in 2009; considered "idiopathic" neuropathy 1996 - 2009
---s/p laminectomy and fusion L3/4/5 Feb 2006 for a synovial spinal cyst
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