Folks, I want to thank you in advance for any and all help I receive from this site. My preliminary findings are very encouraging but I do have a very specific question about PN. Many of the posts that I read were from people who have suffered for 10 to 20 years:

1. Is this something one lives with forever?
2. Can it reach the stage where a limb must be amputated?
3. I am without a job or medical coverage. Are there any generic medicines
for PN?
4. Or, should I start with vitamins?

I am Pre-diabetic and I am trying to loose 25 lbs to help with my situation but it is a slow process.

Thanks again and God bless all of you.

nateco

Hi Nateco and welcome to NeuroTalk.

I copied your post to the PN Forum as well hoping that you'd get more responses if it were in that forum, too.

Glad you've joined us here at NT and I hope you get some helpful advice about your condition.

Thanks, I thought I had. I had better review a few tutorials to get up to speed.

Things to look at for diabetic support/ PN are:

Methylcobalamin B12
r-lipoic acid (to stabilize blood sugar and cellular mito functions)
acetyl carnitine (to increase metabolism of fatty acids in mito)
chromium (to stablize blood sugars)
Benfotiamine (a form of thiamine to help the nerves)
magnesium (diabetics lose this mineral in the urine)
inositol (diabetics lose this also).

We discuss these at the PN forum fairly often. You can search them and read the posts.

One really has to read the posts that accumulate here. There is no way around that. I only put up suggestions that are backed by scientific studies.

At the top of this page on Vitamin is a sticky thread (which does not move), with links to several very common supplements which many people need to learn about. The subjects are large, and there is much to learn from those threads.

You will want to also investigate Vit D and have your level tested. Poor Vit D level is connected to diabetes. The link is in the sticky thread.

Welcome to NT... with patience, careful reading you may change your situation. You must read, and do so carefully, if you are to assume responsibility for some of your own care and issues.

Some people have PN because of life style (drugs consumed, alcohol) or diet (gluten intolerance or other food allergy). You may need to look at these factors too.