Vitamin B and neuropathy

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Anyone have tingles or burning sensation in your toes and shins?

I have had pins and needles in my feet accompanied by a burning sensation

when putting on sox or pulling on the blankets at night. Doc said it is

neuropathy and can be related to lack of Folic Acid or can be from the RPC.

I take a B-complex vitamin but she said I may not be absorbing it properly

and ordered a test for that factor in blood. Depending on the test results

(takes 10 days) she will decide if I should start monthly B vitamin shots.

Meantime she prescribed a Folic Acid pill to add to my daily Rx soup.

She also changed my sleep remedy (Restoril) to PAMELOR because it has an

effect on vitamin B absorption along with helping you stay asleep once you

get there. If it were not for the need for vitamin B she would have kept me

on Restoril. Pamelor also has an anti-depressant effect and she said I

should not take St. 's Wort with it or too close to the time I take it.

She said if I am groggy in the morning I should take it up to two hours

before bedtime and that should solve that problem.

With luck the B vitamins will make the tingles go away. If anyone else has

that symptom, be sure to report it. Especially if you are decreasing

prednisone when the symptoms develop.

I was on 20 mg prednisone and have reduced to 12.5 during the last 2 months.

Was scheduled to decrease from 12.5 mg to 10 mg next week but because of the

tingle-toes doc said I should stay on 12.5 for the time being. She said she

does not want to increase prednisone again and hopes the B-vitamins will be

enough to stop the neuopathy.

H