Lipoic acid

[Nackapan]

Had anyone tried this?

If so does it help nerve pain at all? Most of mine in scalp

[fbirder]

Yes, I take 3 x 600 mg a day. It makes the difference between it feeling like walking on gravel and feeling like I'm walking on broken glass.

Before I started on it I would need to take codeine when the pain kept me awake, about once a month. Since I started I've not touched the codeine.

My neurologist said that it should be fine.

Just recently the pain has got worse so I asked my GP if I could add another 300 mg of gabapentin to my evening dose. Wow! That made a huge difference.

[HopetoB12better in reply to fbirder]

Seth12345 see above (can you tag people in this?)

[Nackapan in reply to fbirder]

So it helps with foot nerve pain

I wonder if it works higher up like my head? Good to be off codeine

[CarlaEP]

Thanks Nackapan I’m going to buy some - sounds useful for peripheral neuropathy 👍😊

[fbirder in reply to CarlaEP]

Don't expect any great effect. For me it was a minor improvement of the effect of the gabapentin. If you have neuropathic pain then I would talk to the doc about that (or pregabalin) first.

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I tried it. Didn’t work for me. Mind you neither did gabapentin nor amitriptyline. Doing SI every two days for the last 3 months does however seem to be helping.