Michael Brady’s Story

Michael worked as a structural engineer until he had to retire because of the pain from walking that his job required. He eventually had to give up his active lifestyle. Michael had been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes years ago and had suffered from peripheral neuropathy for nearly 10 years.

Neuropathy is commonly brought on by diabetes. And for Michael it all started many years ago with tingling and numbing around his big toe and as time passed the numbing advanced to his other toes on both feet.

He didn't think much about it until he started experiencing pain and burning in his feet. So that's when he went to see his doctor and found out that the pain and burning was caused from peripheral neuropathy. Many treatments and medications did not help.

"You'll just have to live with it" was his doctor's diagnosis. All he could do for Michael was to prescribe pain medication, which he stayed on for years.

What's more, Michael hated how the pain killers made him feel, but if he wanted to function, he had no choice but to stay on them. Even worse, he lived with it for 10 years as the disease progressed to a point where he finally became desperate.

Michael turned to the internet and found that there were alternatives.

He found that some people were getting relief from vitamin B shots. Others were using hot/cold packs but they were not getting the sustained relief that they were looking for.

The medical community treats the condition with anti-depressants, anti-convulsants, steroid and cortisone injections, lidocaine patches and pain killers. They also use non-medicinal treatments such as electrical stimulation to the pain site and to the spine. Doctors recognize the need for additional solutions to this wide spread, sometimes debilitating condition but their busy practices make it difficult to stay on top of the current nutritional research.

Michael found a doctor who treated his neuropathy with Vitamin B and Alpha Lipoic Acid shots.

He spent several months going into his office each week for the treatments, but they were costing him a fortune. And it was a pain getting in to see the Doctor every week, even though he was experiencing some relief.

His doctor finally suggested that he find a good vitamin B supplement with high concentrations of Vitamin B-1, B-12 and Alpha Lipoic Acid. He felt that in order for the vitamin B to really have an effect, he needed to take it every day. Michael ended up taking 4 different supplements to get the dosages he recommended but it was costing him over $100 a month and still not giving him satisfactory relief.

Luckily, Michael did end up finding relief.