Love your sense of humor.

Just from personal experience, the low carb-high fat diet recommended on the diabetes forum has been a pretty easy adjustment. The best thing about it? You're not hungry all the time. Being hungry on diets always doomed me. You do have to give up all your munchy goodies, though, but less processed food cannot help but be a good thing.

Go for it.

Right, mine was much higher, for who knows how long. I never put 2 and 2 together and was without health coverage for a decade plus.

I know I am still in a high zone, troubled by increased symptoms but the direction is right. I was hoping for a cessation in the in the increasing symptoms. Healing sounds dynamite, but I am focused on slowing this roll.

The feet and legs are difficult. My hands betraying me has this harsher edge to it. Then I steppedon the rope on a laundry bag, fell like an At-At in The Empire Strikes Back and realize it all is rather lousy.

Everything is a caltrop.

Canagirl,

It seems the thread has taken a turn towards diabetes, which I don't have, but I wanted to address your initial question about vibrating.

One of the first symptoms of my PN was vibration. I get it from the waist down through my butt and all the way down my legs to feet. It most of the time was pulsing, almost rhythmic. It was intermittent, lasting 2-3 days, then it would stop...but my pain also had on/off days when it first started (keep in mind this was like 18 years ago, so not very fresh in my mind now).

As my PN got worse, the vibrations became worse in both frequency and intensity. Sorry to say, they was nothing that made them better but since it wasn't painful, it didn't really complain so much about them...I complained about the pain!!

I will say that I have had these vibrations less frequently in the last few years. I don't know if it's from the IVIG, or if the nerves are just too damaged. I asked my neuro many times over the years about the vibrations (but again, it wasn't at the top of my complaints, it was more of just bringing it up in case it helped him diagnostically), and he always said he couldn't do anything about them.

I know this information doesn't help you at all, but just wanted to let you know that I understand what you are experiencing. But I don't think you can do anything about it.