I have Ciprofloxcacin induced Peripheral Neuropathy since 7 months ago. Since then I have
greatly improved, though I often have very frequent but light PN pains throughout the day.
I just started taking alpha lipoic acid yesterday at 300mg a day to start. My concern is what to take it with and when to take it? I don't want to take it close to the time I take my clonazepam 0.5. but I also take a few other vitamins and don't want them to cancel each other out. Can anyone give me some advice on this vitamin regiment? As in what to take and the best time to take them?
My current vitamin regiment:
Morning: (On an empty stomach)
I take 500mcg of B12 sublingual
Omega 3 120mg
Vitamin C 100mg
Lycopene 10mg (for prostate health and it's an Antioxidant)
Afternoon: (close to meals)
B1 Thiamin 150mg
'Slow-mag" Magnesium 143mg (it also has calcium 238mg)
Evening:
2nd Vitamin C 100mg (sometimes I skip this)
2nd B1 Thiamin 150mg
Alpa Lipoic Acid 300mg
Late night:
Clonazepam 0.5mg an hour before bed
I don't know if I had a reaction from the ALA yesterday since it was my first time taking it. But I was already in a flare-up of PN pains before I took it. Still, I had some odd sensations like some light pain in my inner ears and an increase in "needle-ish prickling" sensations on my skin, though I have felt this before during flare-ups in the past. (not the ear thing though).
Oddly, I could have bought the "R-Lipoic acid" but it was pointed out to me that ALL the studies done regarding reduction of PN pains were done with regular ALA, so I decided to try the regular ALA at 300mg as a starter to see how my body adjusts to it.
Any advice here would be helpful?