Dan Nave <dn...@mn.nilfisk-advance.com> wrote:
- Re: CS> Diabetes, neuropathy, thyroid problems, etc.
- Can't remember which practitioner (MD / alternative practitioner) it
- was but he was recommending Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) for diabetic
- neuropathy. His recommendation on dose for those with the condition was
- 200mg three times a day.
- Don't just do this and forget about losing weight and following up on a
- holistic approach!
- Dan
I think I probably have missed a good deal of the conversations preceding this last, but I will jump in anyway. Forgive me if I am redundant. If you have neuropathy, especially diabetic neuropathy, look into Anodyne Therapy. I hunted it up on the Internet when I read about it in one of the alternative doc's newsletters which I get by snailmail. I was getting desperate to get rid of the chronic tendonitis I had in both wrists which did not yield to acupuncture or to chiropractic. www.AnodyneTherapy.com gave enough information to go on, and I located a source of the treatments with their infra-red LEDs here in my city. I needed a referral from my doctor to get in, and I talked that skeptical lady into writing it for me. A couple of treatments gave me significant relief, and a dozen more took care of the problem altogether.
Now, here is the interesting part: Anodyne is particularly effective for diabetics, correcting neuropathy and healing chronic open sores. The rehab therapist I asked about it said that he recently had a diabetic patient without any feeling up to her knees, considered hopeless by her doctor. The Anodyne treatments restored feeling down to her toes!
Anodyne was paid for by my Medicare and auxiliary Tricare for Life insurance. I looked into purchasing a unit, and they are pretty pricey at about $3000, but I learned from my therapist that after a diabetes patient of Medicare age has had a course of the treatments (12) there is a program through Medicare which will subsidize the purchase by the patient, so that his/her cost is $500 instead of $3000, and thus the patient can continue the treatments at home for as long or as often as needed. Then, I went searching around the Internet, and found that there are other generic versions of the infra red units which are considerably lower priced and within the grasp of most people!
I can't speak of their comparability or effectiveness, however.
My memory is hazy, and I am too lazy to go back to search the archives tonight, but I think the topic of infra red LEDs has enjoyed quite a bit of coverage on this site in the not too distant past, and if you are reading this and were one of the contributors to the earlier discussions, it would be nice if you spoke up again about the benefits of infra red to amplify the current discussions about neuropathy or directed the readers to the best sources of information in the archives.
Marlys
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