Originally Posted by mrsD

If you have normal kidneys, the supplements we use here are pretty benign. I don't recommend anything problematic.

ALA is made by your own body. If that starts to fail, the ALA supplement takes over. There is a decade of research on ALA on PubMed...take a look for yourself.

You need to read up a bit on your own and learn about things involving nerves, and how they function.
This thread for example:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread121683.html

The drugs people take for PN that they get from their doctors are potentially far more serious than any supplement here.

What I see basically from your posts, is a long term use of Nexium. Then use of SSRIs. Then several invasive mechanical tests involving instrumentation. Be aware that "scopes" used in testing have been contaminated and patients have suffered just from that.
And then after all that, you have a NEW symptom!
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00015286.htm

http://blogs.hcpro.com/osha/2010/09/...paign=20100901

This is alarming, and may not be your problem, but you have to realize your current issues have resulted AFTER your procedures.

So if taking ALA or other supplements worry you, then don't.

We offer information here for people to evaluate for themselves.
Several of us know where to find the current research and we share it here. It saves you time, but in no way do we intend for you to follow it all blindly.

Sometimes it is difficult to be objective, and the fresh eyes here can see what you can't. Your first post went into great detail about your testing. I think that is very interesting and revealing and may be a huge clue to your current problems.

I will say I saw recently on another thread of yours, that you went to a masseuse--more than once? I had a masseuse once trigger my shingles ganglia...which for me is in my neck (the shingles went down my right arm initially and that is where my pain is). I'd stay away from massage for a while, to see if that triggered you.