Steff:

My husband was diagnosed with Idiopathic neuropathy 15 years ago. 5 years ago (way before he was diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Demylinating Polyneuropathy, and was put on IVIG), well, 5 years ago, my husband was an overweight out of shape, arthritic man, with such severe neuropathy, he was on a fentanyl pain patch and took vicodin for breakthrough pain. He never exercised. He never walked anywhere. The pain just did him in.

They tried neurontin, (got deathly sick), they tried Elavil, made him itch like crazy, the only thing that worked was the fentanyl, but you don't go to the bathroom when you are on this because it's like morphine with the same side effects. And they had to keep increasing the dosage and he was once on 125 of a patch (changed every two days). So that should tell you the pain this guy was in. And he's not a diabetic by the way.

So one day, years ago, I was on these boards and I came across information about a type of medical practictioner called a chiropractic/neurologist.

Never heard of that 5 years ago. At the time there were only 600 practicing in the whole world. I did the research and I found one in NYC which is near where we live. His name is Scott Theirl and I made an appointment.

A chiropractic/neurologist is a chiropractor who takes 3 years of neurology. He is knowledgeable about the whole body and makes adjustments and he treats THE WHOLE BODY. No pills, no drugs. He does believe in supplements.

So we made the appointment and the first appointment was 3 hours. He examined Alan (who could barely move at the time, couldn't bend his legs, he was so out of shape, well forget it, he was a mess). We really didn't know if this guy could help Alan but we gave it a try.j

So Alan walked in at 267, completely out of shape and on fentanyl and vicodin.

Well, in just a matter of months, my husband was off the fentanyl, doing different variations of exercises, and was a new person. We went to a nutritionist. Dr. Theirl uses a G5 machine and (according to Alan), it's a piece of heaven. When you get up off the table, you can go and fight bulls.

Alan continues to go off and on now to Dr. Theirl. At first it was 3 times a week. He tested his brain with this machine. He did adjustments, well whatever he did, he saved Alan's life. That's all I can say.

We had tried acupuncture, meds. But after going to Dr. Theirl, Alan's life changed.

He was carrying to much weight and he could not move.

Dr. Theirl got him to move. Alan had to de-tox off of the Fentanyl. That took some time. You have to reduce the amount slowly. But Alan couldn't get off the last 25 of the Fentanyl. He had to go to the hospital into their rehab program. Guess what happened?

He walked in wearing a 25 patch of the fentanyl and they took his blood. The next morning they woke him up and said "We can't find any drugs in your system, you have to go home". He tried to explain that he came in wearing a patch, what are they talking about??? but they were adamant. Turns out that you need a special kind of blood test or some special test to detect fentanyl. Also, when he was admitted, the person taking the information didn't even know what fentanyl was. Absolutely mind-boggling.

So Alan came home after one night and had to de-tox in our bedroom for a whole week. It was like a bad case of the flu. I just had to leave him alone and he got through it.

He has never taken a pain med since. He is now on IVIG. It doesn't help with the pain, but it helps with his balance.

According to him, as soon as he gets rid of this foot ulcer, he will go back to the gym, work out like crazy and he doesn't feel the PN.

So for my husband, exercise is the key. And Dr. Theirl saved his life, believe me.

Hope this information helps.

Melody