Congrats Icehouse!!

Well done that man. 1000 days is a great milestone.

Percentage wise, we are gaining on you though! I'm at about 70% of Icehouse sobriety! OK, 68.6%.

(just kidding, doesn't work that way etc etc. )

Yeah, Wide-O, I would be pretty impressed if you could "catch up"!

Keep up the good work Icehouse, you are a great inspiration!

1004 days sober.

I know I just posted a few days ago, but I always post on the 2nd of the month. So, this is just a formality

Has anyone used Tegretol? My doc had suggested it, although I've been doing okay with the vitamin route and I'm not big on using drugs if it won't help. I've tried Gabapentin to no avail.

The numbness is still very prevalent, what worries me more is how ice cold my hands and feet are still after 16 months. I'm worried I've binged myself to permanent damage...it's been very trying waking up in the morning thinking this.

I've not used it kidwonder, but I believe you posted earlier that a year ago you couldn't pick up a quarter. All I got for ya is hang in there. i get frustrated also, but the few studies I have seen available suggest you might need 2 or more years to bounce back.

"Abstract

Ten male alcoholics aged 38-72 years with clear clinical and electroneurographical signs of peripheral neuropathy were re-examined three to five years later. Conduction velocities, latencies and nerve action potential amplitudes were measured from median, peroneal and sural nerves on both occasions and the results were compared with age-matched reference values from 80 healthy men. Seven of the alcoholics showed normal or nearly normal scores in electroneurographical and clinical examination and they had all managed to stop drinking alcohol. The results suggest that the prognosis of alcoholic peripheral neuropathy is good and independent of age provided that intake of alcohol is discontinued and other causes of neuropathy (malignancy, diabetes, nerve trauma) are carefully excluded."

It excites me to read articles like this (among others) that show that Neuropathy caused by alcohol does improve. Maybe not ALL the cases, but there is enough evidence to show improvement if the criteria is met (abstinence and diet are the biggies).

Keep up the good work folks!

Aye. Although I've come a long way in the last year, I can not claim to be completely "healed". It's therefor nice to know I could still see some more improvement in the next 3 years or so. Awesome.

I am newer to this forum and have been reading lots of information on PN. I've been a wine drinker for many years and never realized the damage that sometimes nightly and often times way too much on a weekend could do over the years. I have terrible burning and pain in my feet along with numbness and a tingling sensation which is also in my fingers and hands. I was diagnosed this week with PN and give Gabapentin. After a few days at only 100mg, I had to stop it due to the side effects. My plan is to stop drinking #1. Then to also start using supplements to see if it is possible for me in time to reverse any of the damage I have done. My doctor didn't say for sure it was the alcohol, but I feel it likely is the cause. Here are the supplements I plan from reading the thread. Please chime in if I am missing something. I am not going to supplement with B12 as my B12 reading was over 1900 without supplementation.

Benfotiamine: 300 mg.
Red Yeast rice for high cholesterol: 600 mg.
Qunol Cq10: 100 mg
Multi-vitamin

I'm just starting, so I know this is not going to be easy and it's a long road to find out whether or not anything will help. There are lots of inspiring stories here. Thank you for posting your experiences!