LOL! No problem...I can relate.

I have my annual physical next month, and my PCP always wants to know what supplements I'm taking. I'm going to have to make a list and make sure I can I intelligently state why I'm taking each one. I look at the bottles here, and there's at least one that I'm not quite sure why I take.

Any thoughts on Acetyl L-Carnitine as a supplement for neuropathy at this point? I've read some older discussions of it here.

Is 1000 mg the recommended dosage? Or 500 mg twice a day?

It's one of the supplements I haven't tried.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/28/1/89.full


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Hi Janie,

I have been taking 500 mg 2x per day. It's what I've read in journals. Dr. Teitelbaum also made this recommendation in one of his books.

I think this supplement may have helped my fatigue along with d-ribose when I was pretty much recliner-bound at disease onset.

You might want to look through some of these studies too. The PMC database will give you full text articles. The search terms can probably be refined to get more targeted articles. You can click on "Advanced" and use the search builder for journal article optimization.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?ter...+neuropathy%22

Thanks much, MadisonGirl. Very helpful!

I've tried this for a day and a half, and it seems a little strong for me. I'm going back to 200 mg per day. Maybe go as high as 400 mg per day.

I beg everyone's pardon. I was confused on this. Please disregard the above.

I take the same dosage, sometimes I go as high as 1500 becuase I take it with every meal. I find it really is very good for keeping blood sugar in check as I monitor often with a glucose tester. I don't have diabetes but i always like to see if when my blood sugar gets high if my pain raises which is usually the case because blood sugar stimulates nerves. I have found also that it is quite the fat burner. So, if you don't need to burn fat i would start out slow. It helps a bit with energy but i think you build up a tolerance to that aspect and it stops doing that. Supposedly ALCAR in conjunction with the R-Lipoic is very effective for neuropathy. I would give it a shot.