I'd get the Doctor's Best Benfotiamine 150mg.

If you are worried about high doses, just do 150mg a day.

If you get no negative reactions, you can increase to 300 for a couple of months and see if that helps.

I'd stay away from mixtures of things. You cannot control mixtures or see what is really doing what.

I say this about "reactions". I had great hopes for NAG-- n-acetyl glucosamine, but it seems to inflame my nerves worse.
I never expected that, since I have used glucosamine in the past (with not much results). I've tried 3 times, and got inflamed nerves all 3 times!

Mrs. D,

Please tell me if my supplements now are fine. Please take note that my prescribed medications are Synthroid, Gabapentin and 3 eye solutions for my dry eyes (i have no Sjogren's Syndrome) ---

1. Methyl B12 - empty stomach
2. Multivitamin
3. Vit C - 500mg 2x a day
4. Vit E - 400mg 1x a day
5. Selenium - 200 mg 1x a day
6. Omega 3,6,9 - 800mg 2x a day
7. Glucosamine (stopped starting today)
8. Calcium with VitD - 600mg and 400mg, respectively 1x a day
9. Vit D3 - 2000mg 1x a day (taken together w/ Calcium - taken 5hours after Synthroid)
9. CoQ10 100mg - 1x a day (taken at night together with the 2nd VitC and Omega)

To add:
1. Benfotiamine 150mg - 1x day - Mrs. D, can I take this together with VitB12, or can this be taken with the other supplements? Does this affect absorption of other drugs?

Plan to add after thyroid stabilizes:
1. R-Lipoic
2. Acetyl L-Carnitine (I am not s ure if this is the right one)

Please feel free to recommend what you think is best.

Thank you very very much.

Looks good to me. I think Benfotiamine has better absorption than thiamine:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post850997-117.html

I think you can take it with your other supplements that don't need empty stomach.

@IdopathicPN

You want to make sure your kidneys are working normally with all those supplements.

And check your multivitamin to see if it has selenium in it.
If so 200mcg daily extra is a bit much... you could take it every other day instead. The new suggestions on selenium today are more conservative than they were 5 yrs ago. 100mcg daily is
now the suggestion upper limit.

Oh, thank you so much Mrs. D for this "warning". My multivitamin has Selenium (as Sodium Selenate) 55mcg and says that its 79% of daily allowance. Now, I think I will stop Selenium. The only reason why I started on it recently - it says it protects the liver. I am concerned that with all the medications and supplements I am taking, I would want to protect my liver.

Selenium also is a cofactor in conversion of T4 to active T3.

So some IS needed. I would keep it at 100mcg a day by using the 200mcg only occasionally. As I figure it 325mcg a week (7 day period) would bring you up the the RDA.

So taking 1 of those 200mcg selenium a week would do it pretty closely.

I am a little confused about the selenium. My daily multivitamin does not contain the selenium. I do take daily:
100mg. R-Lipoic (empty stomach)
2mg. MethylCobalamin (empty stomach)
150mg (2x's a day = 300mg's daily)
3,000mg's D daily (per doctor/tests)
Multivitamin (no selenium)

A while back ago, I purchased from iherb:

Best Ubiquinol (Kaneka QH) 100 mg softgels

Bluebonnet Chelated Magnesium 200mg+
(buffered magnesium glycinate chelate) VCap)


I have not taken any of the above because I was unsure if I should take them or not.

I am on Oxycontin, as well as Percocet for breakthru for PN pain.

Should I add the selenium to my daily diet? Also should use the Ubiquiol and the Magnesium?
Thanks for your help,
(Ger)

Mrs. D, thank you.

I am really so grateful for your advices and concern.
I am so happy I found this forum.