Anybody here dealing with diabetic peripheral Neuropathy

[GoodRaisin]

20. I'm dealing with neuropathy and coping.

Not from diabetes but from spinal cord injury. Mine is in the hands, arms, feet and legs and without meds leaves my hands feeling like two burning fire poles. I have experimented with many different things to temper the burning sensation. I was offered opioids to treat it but refused.

I am using pregablin (which is in the same drug family as your gabapentin). They tried me on gabapentin first which didn’t help and then switched me to the pregabalin. It helps, but isn’t sufficient alone to reduce the burning to a tolerable level. So in addition I am prescribed additional drugs to help. Cyclobenzaprine to relax my affected muscles, and diclofenac sodium to help relieve the swelling of edema (caused by the pregabalin). I also add a 650 mg acetamenophen twice a day. All that takes my chronic pain down to about 6-7 on pain scale. Last, I found a nice CBD gummy that I added to the other stuff. That CBD is the best thing I’ve found yet, and reduces the remaining burn another 2-4 levels of pain, which is much more tolerable. It’s called “Calm”, by Lazarus Naturals. One 25 mg gummy does the trick for about 6 hours for me and allows me to still function. (Two of those gummies get me stoned, lol).