Echos thank you - I appreciate that. And yes I see.

I guess my thought too is - if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. Although I would like to give the red lights a try sometime, who knows.

If I was going to spend money I think I would want to try to be seen at The Center for Peripheral Neuropathy at the University of Chicago. I do however have a wonderful neurologist at home.

As I mentioned I have PN - just lucky because no reason can be found for it, mine is idiopathic. I don't have any "triggers" as mentioned in that post - my symptoms are constant, I have muscle weakness in my legs from it, it has started in my hands. My main goal is to not let it stop me from doing things - life is too short. I am not diabetic and will admit it is frustrating to always hear about "the heartbreak of diabetic neuropathy". My understanding from an article in the Neurology Now magazine is the percentage of those with PN who are diabetic is small.

I take a very low dose of neurontin because I don't like medication - I also go to acupuncture once a month, at first however it was 2x a week. Imagine my surprise when after 4 or 5 treatments I felt the liquid she was putting on my feet was cold - when I said oh that is cold, she just smiled and said it was supposed to be. So it has given me back some feeling in my feet - it also has helped with the lightening strike pains.

Shouldn't ramble. Thanks again echos.

Hi mrs. D

It seems the youtube video is from a different clinic - it is in Castle Rock, CO and called Helms Chiropractic & Wellness and the site says it uses "MIRE Therapy (monochromatic infrared energy therapy)", I didn't see laser mentioned.
castlerockspinaldecompression.com/custom_content/c_54568_neuropathy_treatment.html

The one that robpp mentioned is in Denver, and does mention laser
denverneuropathytreatmentcenter.com/

Thank you for the articles on the difference between low level laser and LED.

When i go on Monday I will ask the details about the machine.

THe tech showed me the foot part when they were taking it off. the lights were on. they were small red lights like LEDs. he even called them LEDs and said i could look but not directly.

also here is a scan of my sensory loss test given by this doc when i had my exam.

*edit*

Rob

you will need to resize that pic to post it here. It was so large that it was distorting this entire thread!

also please remove the name and address of the doctor before attempting to post it again. thanks

Thats great that you have more feeling in your feet. Keep up the good work!
Coincidentally there was an accupuncturist MD at the last PN support group i went to and he said that the sooner after you get PN symptoms that you get accupuncture treatment the faster and better the results will be. I did get accupuncture treatment for my lower back pain and it worked well. At that time the accupunturist told me that there was nothing to be done accupuncture wise for PN. That was about 6 years ago.

sorry

hopefully this size is OK itts less than 600 pixels wide now.....

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn11/robpp/IMG-2.gif

more on acupuncture:
 

We have a thread here with new information about how acupuncture works. I then did an experiment with ribose, to see if it helps with ATP production in mitochondria and had substantial success.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ghlight=ribose

If acupuncture works for you, it might be worth trying ribose to see if you can duplicate that effect yourself.

The "MIRE" therapy--
 

--or monochromatic infrared energy therapy, also sounds very much like what is known as Anodyne therapy, which has been kicking around the web and the pain mangment community for around a decade:

http://www.anodynetherapy.com/what_is_anodyne.htm

http://www.ehow.com/way_5364813_anod...treatment.html

Often, these therapy modalities use essentially the same mechanisms, but practitioners/manufacturers/marketers try to come up with different names in order to distinguish their particular product or technique and attract eyeballs.

$600 for the one model - says for feet but I didn't see anything that looked like it was for toes too. Lots of times I feel like gnawing off my toes - lot of times I feel like gnawing off legs at knees :eek: