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REVITIVE Circulation Boosters

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Hi

Basically my calf muscles are non existent... Has anyone tried the REVITIVE Circulation Boosters? if so, would you recommend?

Thanks

Pauline

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I used one regularly for a few months and I did not really notice any difference one way or the other.

A word of warning. If, like me, your feet are very numb ( I cant really fell anything ) DO NOT turn the machine up too far. You can actually cause nerve damage because you cannot feel the tingling even though the electricity is still passing through your body.

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Thanks for the advice Phicam , I have ordered one so will be extra careful

Take care

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Hello to Pauline......

Yes ! my own 'calf' muscles are also totally 'floppy'' :

>Whilst I was recently attending a very busy 'Flu-Vacine-Clinic' recently I raised this subject with my most "Cmt-Smart" G.P. despite him being very busy, he said he would contact the 'Cardologist' who performed the insertion of my 'drug-alluding-stent' into an 'arterial-junction' within my heart last year, and phone me with his professional advice / opinion:

(Note: Remember that your heart is also a muscle) ?

>True to his word my G.P. phoned me at home a few days later, with this Cardiologists advice?

>John, in your particular case, it would be best practice for you to avoid the use of electrical devices that may interfere with your previously diagnosed heart condition called "Atrial-Fibrillation" (AF), which can lead to abnormal electrical rhythm's, or "quivering" within your hearts blood chamber:

>If this condition is not treated, it can lead to 'blood-clots' forming within your heart chamber, and then travelling onwards into the brain, thus causing a 'stroke' (blood vessel blockage) ?

>However, my AF rhythm's have now been normal for many years, due to my daily, and ongoing drug therapy:

>My G.P. also had looked back my previous medical history, and reminded me also of my most poor reaction, and response to "Magnetic-Bracelets", which I was "swayed-into" buying after believing their adverts, that magnets can cure "ALL" ailments ?

>Therfore if you suffer from Atrial Fibrulation )AF), the advice is, "avoid any electrical devices that emit electrical pulse stimulating pulse's, and also including all magnetic bracelets etc:

>So off we all go once again, as we the UK Cmt sufferers, continue ever onwards to seek out the "holy-grail":

Best of Health......

John (Glasgow)

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Paulina in reply to John1945

Hi John

Thanks for the advice, I have ordered one so will give it a try as nothing ventured and all that.

Onwards and upwards :)

Take care

Pauline

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chicodex

I am saving up for a vibration platform machine... I don't put much store in the one's that artificially electrically stimulate the muscles...

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chicodex

P.S. as you said if you have no sensation in your feet and legs - I think it's very dangerous to be passing electricity through them ... I would go for - and am going for the vibration platform machine... it makes your muscles work by excersise rather than electrical stimulation.

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I donr see how this device can have any beneficial effect for CMT sufferers, it acts like a TENS machine passing a small pulses charge of electricity through the nerve to make muscle contract BUT with CMT the nerve pathways are damaged so it can't really work.

The longest nerves i.e to the feet are always the first effected, the system would work on a normal person but those of us in the CMT club its I'm afraid a no no

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Hi Phil

I bought it but have to say you are correct.

The pulses are supposed go through the feet and make your calf muscles contract, however apart from feeling needles in my feet nothing else happened.

I was curious how it would work on a healthy person so I roped my friend to be my guinea pig. I could quite comfortably turn the machine up to 50 (it goes to 100) but my friend could only manage a 8! then she tried the gloves which again I could get to 50 and she only managed a 3! hence to say I will be sending it back as thankfully its on a 30 day trial.. I actually had a little cry (not something I do) when she left as it brought home how damaged I am.

Pauline

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Bazer-Sci

Hi, I do not suffer from CMT but have bilateral denervated gastrocnemius and muscle wasting following a botched L5-S1 fusion in 1992. I get the opposite to foot drop (I can lift my feet but cant stand on my toes) I am trying to use a Revitive to relieve foot pain and have pretty much the same result as you describe having to start it at around 90. I have found that using moisturizer (E45) on my feet first helps a lot and brings the initial setting down to 30 / 40. Using the E45 also makes sure I look after my feet and examine them daily for any sign of infection.

I don't get any calf contraction at all but I feel its helping exercise the many other muscles/tendons in my calf/foot so try to stick using it 30 mins twice a day as a way of trying to put off the day when peripheral neuropathy from type two diabetes starts to cause me problems.

Barry