Yeah, I think so, but I can't see anything they're doing for my nerves, unfortunately.

I've been taking about every supplement known to man that is supposed to help your nerves. I just don't know if I'm taking therapeutic doses. I'm doing what the bottle label advises and/or what I've read online and in books.

It's very difficult to find doctors who believe in supplements' value, and even if you do, the chances are slim of finding one who is also very knowledgeable about therapeutic doses.

My ND couldn't even pronounce PN properly. She said something like "peripheral monopoly."

I'm trying to figure out what kinds of damage chronic CoQ10 can cause, and then sort of work backwards.

The ND thinks there's some kind of endocrine issue, but I'm thinking a neuroendocrine problem. But I also suspect it would be secondary, not primary. I want to investigate from two angles, not just thyroid, adrenal glands, etc.

My current theory is something caused inflammation and with it heat, and the thyroid, hypothalamus, etc., try, with difficulty to regulate the heat; but it gets very difficult for those glands, because they are asked to do something they weren't really designed to do. Their jobs, moreover, have become more difficult still with the peripheral neuropathy, which seems to send them more messages demanding more attention (sense of heat).

I just don't understand how there can be such a high amount of heat without redness or swelling. The heat can literally burn your fingers and I think it's damaging the nerves + surrounding tissue.

Lack of sleep, I've read, can cause inflammation, but inflammation itself can cause lack of sleep.

Cortisol can reduce inflammation, but my adrenals are perpetually exhausted from lack of sleep, they fail to stop the inflammation.

The inflammation keeps spreading despite taking many supplements. That reduces the sleep even more, waking me up sooner than before and not letting me get back to sleep easily.

My new MD a few years ago was hopeless. He didn't even raise the possibility of inflammation. (Perhaps because there was no redness or swelling.)

A year ago, I went to see an ND. She suspected a thyroid issue and mercury poisoning and gave me stuff for that without any testing! I decided to find a new ND.

This new ND, who I started visiting recently, was also very quick to offer an opinion without testing during the initial consultation. She thought the problem was a vascular reaction, i.e., the endocrine system reacting to the low core temperature, and trying to raise it.

However, I doubt this is the case, because lots of people with thyroid problems have low core temperature and low skin temperature, instead of what I have (low core temp + high skin temp).