Hi LizaJane--Thanks for your warm wlecome and suggestions. I'll check the stickies and will certainly follow-up to your website to check on the tests.

I also think that peripheral nerves can regenerate but I know that it is a process measured in many months and years. As a prediabetic I'm working to create a more healthy environment but it is the rest of a lifetime job to fix a lifetime of injury. I'm glad that you and others are better now than you were at diagnosis - that is hopeful. You mentioned supplements, I've seen some really good clinical studies about N-acetyl-L-carnitine and I've read that the antioxidant affects of alpha-lipoic acid can be useful. Do you have any experience w/ these?

I'll need to spend a lot of time just reading posts and other forums just to catch up. Thanks again
Alkymst