Diana:

I'm one of the luckier ones. I have no trouble walking. My burning started about three months ago when the podiatrist woke up every nerve in my foot when he used his vibrating thing on my toes and the bottom of my foot. I never had a symptom before that. SO IT'S NO COINCIDENCE. And when I brought it up to my doctor last week, (very nicely mind you), he laughed and said "it's not related, you had the neuropathy anyway". HUH?????

Anyway, ever since he did that, that night my feet buzzed burned and drove me nuts all night long. After that once in a while but that once in a while drove me nuts. So I began the Methyl b-12 and believe me, THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. Yesterday, I purchased the 5000 mcg of Methyl B-12 from iherb.com. Along with Stevial. I'm going to go off of Splenda. I stopped the aspartame last year but I just read that using Splenda (which was descovered accidently by a guy looking for a pesticide). Well, it can spike one's blood sugar. So I'm not taking any chances.

I've used Stevia before and it's fine and it's very cheap at iherb.com

And when I walk, if it's 95 degrees outside (I have arthritis), well NOTHING HURTS ME. Everybody else is croaking on the sidewalk but I"m fne and dandy.

No complaints at my end, believe me.

Melody

I'm not surprised at all that you and Alan had a really positive time at the PN support group - I hope that you'll have more good sessions and perhaps a future time when neither of you will have a need for a PN support group. I'm sure your muffins were a big hit!! - brought back memories of when I was single and used to bake 2-3 loaves of sourdough cinnamon-raisin bread/week. This went on for a long time while I "perfected" my bread which meant a fresh hot loaf of bread and some butter until I got it right - never quite did - but those days are gone now - no time but more importantly, my wife is FAR, FAR SUPERIOR to me when it comes to baking or cooking.

I did want to mention something about Splenda since it really is not connected to a pesticide at all. You might be interested in the story of how it was discovered which follows - quite a remarkable case, pure serendipity at it's best.

Tate & Lyle, a British sugar refinner (actually the largest in the world) was exploring the chemistry of sucrose back in the mid "70's and were collaborating w/ Prof. Leslie Hough’s laboratory at King’s College in London. His group was making some halogenated sugar compounds in which one or more of the hydroxy groups is/are replaced by a chlorine atom. There was a foreign grad student in Hough's group who misunderstood a request to "test" a particular chlorinated sugar derivative - he "tasted it" instead (tasting chemical compounds was something old time (late 1800's and early 1900's) synthetic chemists did and many had shortened life spans as you might expect). In any case, the compound turned out to be very sweet, several hundred times sweeter than sugar and ultimately led to the discovery of Splenda.

Much continued success w/ your power walks, your B-12 and your muffins.

Alkymst

I watched a video about Splenda the other night. That's when the guy doing the video explained all about how it was discovered, where the language thing was misunderstood and the guy tasted it. He also spoke about how it has similarites to DDT. Scared me to death.

And because of what I read about aspartame, I stopped the nutrasweet and equal stuff a long time ago. Read bad stuff about that.

Do me a favor and go to this link and poke around. Tell me what you think okay? I can't use sugar, and I do enjoy my morning cup of coffee and I just purchased Stevia from iherb.com and have used it previously so that's not a big deal. I'd just like to know what you think about Splenda, okay?


http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm

Thanks, Melody