Pain meds worse than condition
 

Hi everybody, been looking in for quite some time and feeling pretty overwhelmed with the amount of information available here, great site! Diagnosed with idiopathic PN in march this year after my rheumy decided no arthritis and sent me to a neuro, previously on amitryptiline, co-codomol and arcoxia. Neuro changed meds to topomax instead of amitryptiline, GP added gabapentin when topomax not really helping, side effects from topomax too much after giving it 3 months so tapered off and now on 900mg gabapentin 3 times daily alongside other meds previously mentioned. Two weeks in and pain not reducing, soles of feet and palms bright red at night and heat sensitive, ankles swollen, brain fog slightly reduced but feeling extremely dumb at times, also fatigued and sleeping quite a lot. Any advice on medication appreciated. GP appointment next week and will ask for B12 levels to be checked, what is a good level for the UK? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Welcome to NeuroTalk:

To convert pmol/L in non US countries (look carefully at the test result numbers to see the concentration units)

Each country uses different ratios so you have to look carefully at your results.

you multiply pmol/L x 1.355 to give US units of pg/ml

400pg/ml in US translates into 295 pmol/L

(To convert from pg/mL to pmol/L multiply by 3/4 or 0.738)

Thanks for the welcome
 

Thanks for the quick reply mrs D, will try to work it out when I get results, what is a good level for B12?