Yes, it would be wonderful if it worked well for me like it has for you, though I'd like to be able to try it before investing $500-1000 on it, which is what my mom said is how much complete kits were selling for! She is the one who was researching it. I, myself, haven't done any research on it yet, but I obviously would before making any decisions. The TENS unit didn't do anything for my feet--but I didn't get it for my feet--I got it for my back. Even if insurance paid 80%, I'm not sure I'd want to pay the 20% without knowing if it was even going to work. I wish there were places to try these things out first. The nurse was supposed to call back by 5 and she didn't, so I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow... so it'll be yet another night of this intense pain... I wish this nurse and doctor would take this pain seriously like my family doctor does... Maybe I'll have some luck and will find some medicine that will work.. that would be great too... I just want to feel better--I don't care at this point how I get there.

Ref costs, my Model 300 I believe is $400-$500. I do believe their site indicates they are having a sale now which includes the conductive socks (I don't use them, because my insurance wouldn't cover them) for $500. I think that's a pretty good deal; the socks alone used to be a lot. My insurance paid 65%, so the investment was worth it. I believe they also provide a money back guarantee if you are not pleased. So, you may want to investigate their site a bit more.

Randy

Really? That's not as bad as what my mom found, then... she found a lot of expensive ones... we couldn't ever figure out how the socks fit in... that never made sense...

The nurse called back and it never rang but it beeped saying we had a message. He's not comfortable prescribing pain medication to me, and not only that, but doesn't feel that can can do any more for me as far as the neuropathy goes (he's had me on Neurontin, Topamax, Lyrica, Amitripyline...) and so basically the message from the nurse was that we should just deal with my family doctor and "get lost"...

So... that's that.

My Mayo Neurologist would not Rx the ReBuilder for me because I wouldn't be able to see him frequently enough for him to study the results (read that as frequent EMG's, etc.... ah, no thanks anyway....). But my local PCP doc went ahead and Rx'd it. I don't know how anyone could hurt themselves with it in any way.

Sarah i cant feel the tens machine in my feet either using it dry that is with the pads. Before you get a rebuilder try this. buy a divided foot bath, put in lukewarm water with epsom salts on each side. take the pads off of the leads of the tens machine. put one lead in each side of the footbath. i other words one wire into the water on the left side of the footbath and one wire in the right side of the footbath. keep the setting on the tens low at first and then raise it slowly until you feel the electricity. this is exactly how the old rebuilder used to work before they went to pads and socks. you can still see the type of footbath i am talking about on the rebuilder site in the photo for the physicians 2407 package. you can get the footbath in any drug store and if they dont have it they will order it. its entirely safe if you use the battery in the tens and not the electrical plug into the outlet. give it a shot, im sure you will feel it then.

This is excellent advice. I was told the same (foot bath) thing from my friend who has had terrific success with the ReBuilder and says he no longer has PN....as long as he keeps up a maintenance schedule with the ReBuilder. Yes, he strongly recommended that I use the warm water bath method as well, and I can further say that I have heard from a very good source that this is the best method for use with the ReBuilder, and to that end I have just ordered the foot bath unit myself.

RandyK,
When I purchased my ReBuilder #2405 the footbath came with it along with conductive gel. It helps with the early burning stages of PN, later I used the pads on accupressure points.

Are you serious??? You put it in WATER? When I researched the ReBuilder with the socks, it said nothing about water--but like I said in an earlier post, all of the research my mom and I did was recent and had the socks.
Are you sure it is safe to put those things in water? That seems awfully dangerous to me. I've never heard of that before. I guess if you guys have done it before, it can't be too harmful.. I've just never heard of it before...interesting.

A divided foot bath, huh? I will have to look into that. We don't really have a drugstore in town. We have a Walmart, so I'll have my mom check there next time she goes. Otherwise I'll have to wait until next time she goes out of town to check in another town. Thanks for the advice. I will definitely keep it in mind.

Yes in water -the ReBuilder is perfectly safe. I have ordered my water bath unit directly from Rebuilder Medical Co. Conductive socks are very expensive and my source says the water works better.

Hi Sarah
Try to get a second hand rebuilder , which is what I did, or if you go down the route of buying a new one they offer a money back guarantee. I use mine every day and do get relief for some time after it's use.
Best of luck
t