Originally Posted by mxmxmxmxmxmx

Have any of you heard of or used topical dextrose cream for neuropathy? My doctor mentioned this as a possibility and he sells the cream for 40$ at his office. He explained that neural prolotherapy which some of you may know about involves injecting dextrose right next to the injured nerve or superficially to it and that for superficial nerves like mine they've been finding dextrose topically applied can also help.

I opted to go with the more well known topical painkiller compounded cream (lidocaine, gabapeptin, ketamine, dicloflenac, and a couple others I forget) from a pharmacy prescription he wrote for me and investigate this dextrose thing first before paying out of pocket. As far as I know dextrose is just sugar so it seems a little far fetched rubbing dissolved sugar into the skin would help. I've only been able to find a few anecdotal mentions of it from doctors: http://www.drreeves.com/Treatment-Va...gulating-Cream

I wonder if I could just get some powdered dextrose for a few cents and mix it into my compounded pharmacy cream when I apply it? I just don't know if the dextrose would interfere with something else. I've also seen those glucose gel tubes for diabetics contain dextrose and might try that. Unless there's some magic ingredient in the cream my doctor sells to get the dextrose through the skin I feel like 40$ is a bit of a high markup for dextrose.