Well, thanks for ollthe suggestions and experiences. I tend to favor traditional treatments, I think. I have some stents in my coronary arteries, and have had a bone spur taken from my right collarbone where it was impinging on my rotator cuff.

I have had one surgery which didn't work out (I rejected the material used) and would change that if I had it to do over again....but then I have found that true for several things in life.

Otherwise, I am feeling a bit better. I've been getting some exercise which always helps. It's just that I am so very disabled, and find that five years into the diagnosis (profound neuropathy) I still am embarrassed by my ungraceful floppy walk and staggering around. And dizzy and unstable and rather sure I will have a bad fall one of these days.

But I'm lucky I'm 'old' and long retired so only have my own 'expectations' to live up to!

Thanks for all the support.

ElaineD