Originally Posted by icelander

I feel ya. It's hard to have a good attitude when you are suffering and scared. I know this feeling soooooo well. I'll tell you something.
About a half year before the first signs of neuropathy, I bought a ukulele and decided to learn to play it. I'd always listened to tons of music but I wanted to play and sing. Well long story short it's been a huge emotional lifesaver for me during this illness. Fortunately most of the hand pain is on the backs of the hands and I can still play for over an hour at a time with no problems. Music is healing for me. So I say play on!

Originally Posted by surfer00

Icelander, a little off topic, but thought you'd enjoy this. Actually everyone will like it I'm sure. Maybe the most beautiful song I've heard....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg

Originally Posted by icelander

Hi, and thanks for that inspirational post. You have a pretty strong attitude. I'm working on mine.

MJ has worked well for me this past year. It's the only pain med I'm usings other than Phenibut. Both of those have been very helpful, especially for anxiety/stress. I usually can get to sleep and manage up to 7 hours at times. I only use it at bedtime for this reason. I take Phenibut once a day. In Russia is is prescribe for depression and anxiety and neuropathic pain. Compared to what I was seeing as side effects from the US pain meds this stuff is very clean of negative side effects. But of course if you use it every day you'll get addicted like I am. It's very inexpensive and I have not seen it mentioned by anyone but myself.