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Old 09-16-2009, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Hope15 View Post
What medication do you take, and how does it cover your pain?

What kind of pain do you have? Numbness? Balance problems or problems walking?

Has your neuropathy progressed? Improved?
I've had PN for 2.5 years.

I currently take:

1) Gabapentin- 600mg tablet (4x a day)
2) Lyrica- 100mg caps (3x a day)
3) Baclofen- 10mg tablet (6 tabs a day)
4) Methotrexate- 2.5mg tablet (8 tabs per week)
5) Folic Acid- 1mg tablet (1 tab a day)
6) Vitamin D3- 1000IU tablet (1 tab daily)
7) Vitamin B12- 1000mcg tablet (1 tab daily)

These are all for Peripheral Neuropathy/Auto-Immune Disease/Fibromyalgia (They think they are impacting one another to make the pain worse)

As for pain, my feet have every kind of pain you can think of, burning, stabbing, aching, tingle, pricking, etc. I also have some partial numbness in the bottom of my feet. The fibro causes me to get random aches and pains- sometimes feeling like I have been hit in spots- so tender even water in the shower, or a finger grazing them kills.

For about 2 years my Neuropathy kept getting worse, then they put me on Methotrexate and things started to improve. However I hit a plateau a few months ago, which I wish they would figure out how to break...I am at the end of my rope with this (living in perpetual pain is enough to drive you mental).
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