Hi,My Dr. keeps telling me there was no reason for my Pn other than a mutant gene.I go in with a list each time.. could it been exposure to to some chemical,could it been x-rays,could it been a drug reaction of some kind...I go CRAZY with trying to figure out the why and how,i wish it something easy as like vitamins,or lack of vitamins.It be a great comfort to me to be able to pin these disease on something.Why did this happen?What caused my body to start destroying the Peripheral nerves?Why did it progress so fast?..Every night i have this dream someday dr. will pour a dark purple liiquid into a beaker and red smoke curls upward...he will shout EUREKA...I'v found the answer to periphereral neuropathy..Other Drs. gather around and shake there heads and say..Darn,is that all it was? Why didn't we think of that!! My son tells me i need more sleep his wife a Psychiatrist saids it can't hurt or just maybe someday my dream will come true....If it sounds good and doesn't give you a rash try it Sue

Those 2 women have to be the stupidest people I have ever seen. All dressed up in white lab coats!!

Well those ionic baths are in every chinese massage place in Sydney with big posters showing the "removal of toxins". I have never tried it but have always wanted to. I have been afraid of the electric current to be honest.

The chinese massage places are peddling cure all herbs and ionic cleanse and whatever else under the sun you can imagine. Just to share something, I had gone in for a simple massage one day,and the massage guy said to me ,"what's wrong with your kidney? I replied, nothing at all! He then asked why does it hurt when I presses my back? I said," probably because I have a bad back!"

He then said," I have some ancient chinese herbs that can help you." I said," I don't buy herbs that aren't approved by my GP as I have a medical condition." He then said "you really need these herbs". I said," I don't want your damn herbs ok... so don't ask me again!"

Anything for money sometimes. It's so disgusting. Also about 2 weeks ago, my husband and I saw a man in a shopping centre with a stall selling Goji juice by the box full. He had a piece of paper that listed all the conditions that it cures. My husband approached him,and asked me if he can spend $280.00 on a box of Goji juice. I told the man, I watched a news clip of the owner of Goji juice basically being reduced to a fraudster, and laboratory studies had shown that Goji juice had almost no nutrition at all!! Then I looked at my husband and said "its all a scam"!

The man selling the Goji juice looked at me with contempt in his eyes.

Oh my, it' a scam!!!

I'm going to check out the links that you guys posted. Sounds like a lot of snakeoil salesman are still operating on poor unsuspecting people!!!

That's why I ask you guys everything first.

Maybe someday.......
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Okay, I'm back, just saw the videos with the two ladies in the white coats. I was actually embarassed for them. They looked like they were caught red handed and they didn't know what to say.
Snakeoil salesmen.....you're not gonna get my husband.

It might illustrate why I am so skeptical.

When I was a teen, I had a chemistry set (no surprise there )

My brother who is 11 yrs younger than I, was a little boy. These sets were
very common in those days, but not so much now because of safety rules we now have. There were many little
experiments in oxidation/reduction reactions.

One would take a clear liquid of an iron compound, and add a few drops of
another clear solution, like sodium thiosulfate, and bingo, get a fancy precipitate. Same for copper, and other metallic ions. Same with acetic acid.

Now, 45+yrs later, I don't remember them all. But they were MAGIC for my brother! My parents used this fascination to control his behavior..you know...if you behave..she will do the magic for you!

I think the moisture from sweat reacts with the heavy metals (the ones I bolded in the post above) and changes their state to a precipitate, which is non soluble and colored. The vinegar is in there to provide the acidic format in
case the person does not have acidic skin.

That's ok Mel, now Goji juice for 280.00 a box iif that wasn't so sad it would be funny..Got to telll my 3 children about that 1 i wonder how many people in pain fell for that one,should of accidently stepped on his foot to see if he would sell it to himself!!!! Sue

Reminds me of what happened to me in Chemistry Class when I was 16.
I went to a private parochial school (with the nuns). Sister Mary Clare was in front of the class and we all had some kind of bunsen burners and beakers of some stuff. The stuff smelled bad (now don't ask me what this was because who on earth can remember 45 years or so ago!!!!).

Because the girl sitting next to me was somebody I couldn't stand (she thought she was better than anybody), I played a practical joke on her.
I handed her the beaker of the stuff and told her to take a whiff (bad idea, because SMOKE STARTED TO COME OUT OF HER NOSE). She started screaming, the nun almost killed me, (oh for the good old days).

The stuff we do when we're 16 years old!!!!

lol
Melody

ON Discovery Channel? Somehow I've the feeling this MYTH is BUSTED?

IF it were soo good DOCS, real docs would be doing it...somehow they aren't. Nuff said. - j

How are you with the rain/wind and flooding?

I've family in Bergen Co across the 'other river' and they'd 7-8 inches of rain..That is a LOT..Here a bit south we had only 3" of rain, but heaps and heaps of WIND! Hurricane sounds all day..Hope things ease up, this is a nasty one. - j

These patches are available from LTD Commodities for $24.95. But I agree, they are probably a trick. Has anyone tried epsom salts in a foot bath?

I remember my mother and my italian grandmother used Epson Salts for absolutely everything that was wrong with you.

Soaked your feet in it. Drank it for your stomach.

God, I feel so old!!! lol

Always, *always* remember: If it sounds too good to be true - it is.

I've seen those commercials for the patches too. I so wished there was something that simple and relatively cheap that would 'fix' my PN. For good. But it doesn't work that way, sadly. I figured they had found some kind of chemical reaction to make it appear that the patches were doing what they claim they will do. If it worked that well wouldn't there be...I don't know...a major news headline story at least?