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What daily quantity is safe to take for pins and needles in hands? 500 mg for 2 days is working.

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I take 2 capsules of ALA 150 mg per day although it suggests 1 a day but daily value not established. I also try to eat foods high in ALA:

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fbirder

I take 3 x 600 mg a day. My neurologist is OK with that.

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Does ALA work for alcoholic malabsorption pins needles hands?

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No idea. I first read about it being successful, albeit intravenously, with diabetic neuropathy. My neuropathy (not diabetic or B12 related) was getting very bad, so I decided to give it a try. It’s meant I no longer feel like I’m walking on broken glass, just travel.

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Herbert123 in reply to fbirder

Does anything else work for your neuropathy? Why shouldn't we try 600 mg × 4 each day? Does it take 5 × 600 mg to reach an equivalently small intravenous effect?

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I take gabapentin for the pain. But it wasn’t enough: some days. I would be kept awake by what I described as ‘the evil pixie with the red hot needle jamming it into my toes’. My neurologist suggested codeine, which worked. For two or three nights when, worried about addiction, I would have to stop.

When I started the ALA I really didn’t notice any difference over three weeks. So I stopped taking it. What I didn’t realise was that the pixie’s visits had stopped. It was only a week later that he came back. I put two and two together, got something close to four, and ordered more ALA.

Within a week the pixie was gone again. And he’s never come back.

I still get the continual pain in my feet, but the ALA smooths out the worst bits. I could try dropping the dose, but the effects seem to take a long time to kick in, so I reckon it would be quite difficult to determine if it was the same, or slightly worse.

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