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03-27-2007, 09:24 PM | #1 | ||
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I was wondering if one of the B's could cause burning in peripheral neuropathy. I was given large quantities of B to treat my peripheral nerve damage. It felt like it was exacerbating the problem so I stopped.
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03-27-2007, 10:11 PM | #2 | |||
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Each B vitamin is different. Japanese physicians inject 36 mg./day of methylcobalamine B-12 (that's 36,000 mcg!) to heal PN damaged nerves. It works with people and experimental animals. It's hard to imagine any amount of B-12 that you could afford that would cause damage.
On the other hand, some of the other B vitamins can be harmful to excess. A safe supplement limit would be either one B-100 formulation or two B-50 formulation tablets or capsules a day. You can get info. on recommended amounts, therapeutic amounts, and recommended upper limits of the entire range of supplements, vitamins, and minerals at http://healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetCo...chunkiid=33802 .
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03-28-2007, 04:16 AM | #3 | ||
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in that whatever amount your body doesn't need/use simply goes thru your system.
The only one I recall and have and bad experience with is too much B6. That can build up and be detrimental. It had turned out the the multi-vite, b-complex and other supplements included waay too much B-6 So I switched brands and all is ok. Don't be too distressed at the burning, it could be signals of healing. The majority of the B vitamins are key building blocks in helping that healing. - j |
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03-28-2007, 05:57 AM | #4 | ||
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--it's quite common for nerves that ae "waking up" again, after long periods of damage or disuse, to recapitualte the same symptoms they produced in the process of getting damage. This has been noticed by people with peripheral neuropathy, spinal cord injury, radiculopathies . . .apparently, many of these strange sensory symptoms come from a brain trying to make sense of new and unusual input. When nerves start to re-grow and attempt to reconnect to their targets, the brain, at least for a while, has trouble interpreting the new sensory data and may well interpret the info as painful, electrical, or any other weird sensation one might feel when nerve damage is ongoing. It does tend to recede after a while as the brain gets used to the new input, but it can be nerve-wracking (pun intended) while one is experiencing it and one does not know whether one is healing or experiencing new damage. It only becomes apparent which in long-term retrospect (months to years).
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03-28-2007, 08:41 AM | #5 | ||
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Thanks for clarifying that Glenntaj.
It took two years for the PN to disapear in my hands. I had a cervical fusion in 2004; PN came on 6 months after that. Had another cervical fusion in Sept. 2006; PN completely went away in hands. The nerve damage or pain was radiculopathy NOT PN prior to the first fusion. I believe once the nerves were freed up, it is as you say, the brain did not know how to interpet the new signals and I may have had "windup" and the peripheral nerves were on fire due to the decompression of the spinal nerves. But in any case, it did heal and stop. So, yes, a sign of more burning CAN also be a sign of healing and not worsening. I am just glad you made the distinction between radiculopathy and peripheral neuropathy. They are two different processes; both causing neuropathic pain. |
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03-28-2007, 01:50 PM | #6 | ||
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I didn't realize the nerves would burn again when they are coming back to life, but I can see that it make sense. I had so much PN that I've been a burning mess, but I know there are lots of others out there going through the same thing. At least there is hope that they can be healed. I do think that the one capsule had too much B6 and it aggravated the problem. I guess I just have to be patient and ride this out. Thanks.
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