Hi all. Last night was a rough night of sleep. I took my gabapentin at around 2am, but it didn't make me sleepy at all. Then my body legs were feeling like they were freezing, but I was under plenty of covers. Around maybe 6am or later I was just lieing there trying to sleep and I had massive pins and needles on the tips of my knuckels, toe knuckles, legs, feet, arms, ect. It was all quite painful. I thought about taking some tramadol, but didn't want to, so I just tried to relax and finally fell asleep and had a good enoug sleep until 11:30am, so good enough I guess.

So I bought a bottle of b12 tablets. There 5mg, methylCobalamin, called fast melt, and desolve under the tongue. There by "Source Naturals" from The Vitamin Shoppe I took it on an empty stomach, right? I'm thinking about taken them twice a day. Is that too much?

I also bought a bottle of Benfotiamine from there called Life Extension Mega Benfotiamine 250mg. I'm going to take 2pills twice daily.

Sound good? Hope I wasn't too wordy. :-)

PS. Which would be better to take for pain, ibuprofen or tylenol? Thoughts?

Got back my B12 test result

Component Standard Range Your Value
VITAMIN B-12 211 - 911 pg/mL 456

Is there any chance this could be a thyroid issue. The only test I have though is this, and according to my research, .46 is excellent. Is that right?

Component Standard Range Your Value
TSH 0.40 - 4.50 mcIU/mL 0.46

Last night was rough. I had to finally take 12.5mg of tramadol to go to sleep as the pain was so bad. It worked though and I finally slept. Not well, but it was sleep and having gotten so little the night before, I really needed some.

I'm thinking of going to the ER and just sitting in hopes of seeing a neurologist.

Hi Ryan,

I think you will get more information and responses by Posting your Journey over on the Peripheral Neuropathy Forum.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html

There are Members there who do not stray up to these Forums, but who have knowledge and experiences to share.

Dave.

It didn't work for my pain long term and we established I'm allergic to it. For my father who had horrid PN it worked well. Everyone is different, if it gives you relief then take it. No one should suffer in pain and you certainly sound like you are suffering.

Have you actually gone to your family dr and had a blood panel to check every thing that also includes thyroid .... Why don't you start there ?

I've done two blood tests so far, just not for that thyroid yet. I think it's a super rare long shot though that my issue is that anyway. I do go see a primary doctor next Wednesday though, and hope to go over all of my thoughts and additional concerns then. I also hope that he will schedule me to see a neurologist. Man those guys are hard to get into.