Expert Column
Amy Bader, ND 
Amy Bader, ND, practices naturopathic medicine in Portland, Oregon, and will soon begin practicing...read more
Articles In This Column
- How 'Bout Some Good Press for Cholesterol?
- The Trouble with Heart Disease
- Stomaching Stomach Acid: A Simple Solution
- Sit Down, Oil Up, and Heal Your Body: The Wonder of Castor Oil Packs
- Peripheral Neuropathy: Treating it the Natural Way
- The Skinny on Type 2 Diabetes: Part 1 of 2
- The Skinny on Type 2 Diabetes: Part 2 of 2
- What’s Bugging You? (The One Supplement You Can’t Do Without)
- Inflammation: Good, Bad or all Hype?
- How the 6 Principles of Naturopathy Transformed a Science Geek into a Doctor
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Comments For "Peripheral Neuropathy: Treating it the Natural Way"
Thank you for your tips. I am in so much pain....just came off a series of painkillers and my brain is fried!! Been getting cortisone shots in my hands and feet and refuse to go the conventional medical route any further. Would like to connect with other people who suffer from this and have had good results with alternative medicine.
God bless you and thanks again.
Because peripheral neuropathy can have so many roots, it is difficult to determine. I have found that tradition medicine seems to dismiss it if the main cause isn't diabetis. My grandmother supposedly had mutliple sclerosis when I was a child. Years and years of researh as an adult, I have found that in some cases, the burning sensation some people get may be from a B vitamin deficiency. My elderly mother currently has PN...as does her elderly brother. In addition, my 60+ sister and 50+ brother both have PN. So far, I show no signs of it, but I also routinely go to the chiropractor for maintenance and ionic detox footbaths. Not sure if any of this helps anyone, but you know yourselves better than most...and might want to do some investigating on your own. Good luck!