Yes, Neuropathy Is Reversible, It’s Just Not Curable.

Does that sound contradictory? If it can be reversed it's cured, isn’t it? Neuropathy is a disease process where the cells of nerve endings at the skin level die off and the nerve ending recedes deeper into the tissue and begins to fire on its own. Depending on which nerve endings are affected you may feel numbness, burning, cold sensations, pain, you will start to have balance problems or all of these. The problem is neuropathy does not start on its own, there is always an underlying cause and because of that, the reversal will not last unless something is done to support the results. 

There are several health care offices that talk about relief, reversal, being pain free, etc. You may have heard them them say come in for treatments and you will get back to the life you knew before you developed neuropathy. What they don’t say is how long those results will last, visiting the doctor on a regular basis is not getting back to life either. 

I was just like them from 2008 when I started treating neuropathy until the summer of 2015.  Since the summer months are always a little slower, because the snowbirds are gone.  I decided to contact about 20% of the patients I had treated in my office from 2008 through 2014. I had about 200 people to reach out to and see how they were doing now. I’ll be honest I cherry picked the ones I called as I was going to use the results in my promotions to get more new patients, so I made sure they were the ones that had the best results, most were back to 100% improvement when I released them from care. Mind you the causes of their neuropathy were all different, some with diabetes, some chemotherapy and radiation therapy for cancer, a couple of recovering alcoholics, and a large group with idiopathic neuropathy, where the cause is unknown. 

Here’s what I found: TWO out of almost 200 patients still reported their neuropathy was under control, one from 2009 and another from 2011. The rest from 2008 to 2013 all reported that their neuropathy was just as bad if not worse than it was when they first came to see me. The ones from 2014, all reported that their neuropathy was returning, some not as severe yet, but they were all starting to have symptoms again.  A couple of them I had just released from care in December of 2014, just 6 months previously.  That was only 1%, that was not what I was expecting. 

That was very eye opening and extremely disappointing. I had taken part in a study in 2010 where we had pre and post nerve tissue biopsies performed on patients that improved back to 100%.  The study proved that we could reverse the neuropathy and increase the nerve density by over 400% in severe cases and those individuals reported 5 years later their neuropathy was now just as bad if not worse than it was before they came to see me. 

I knew what I did worked for the short term, but how do I make it work for the long term? 

The answer: KEEP TREATING IT! In the fall of 2015, I started having my patients treat themselves at home, guess what, the results have been sustained. I have remained in contact with most of my patients since 2015 and they report they are still doing well. This is why we need to think of neuropathy like a wilted plant that we bring back to life, we need to keep giving it the things it needs so it will not wilt again. y? If it can be reversed its cured, isn’t it? Not if it comes back.  Neuropathy is a disease process where the cells of nerve endings at the skin level die off and the nerve ending recedes deeper into the tissue and begins to fire on its own. Depending on which nerve endings are affected you may feel numbness, burning, cold sensations, pain, start to have balance problems or all of these. The problem is neuropathy does not start on its own, there is always an underlying cause and because of that the reversal will not last unless something is done to support the results. There are several health care offices that talk about relief, reversal, being pain free, etc. come in for treatments and you will get back to the life you knew before you developed neuropathy and most of them work for many of their patients. What they don’t say is how long those results will last.

I was just like them from 2008 when I started treating neuropathy until the summer of 2015.  Summer months are always a little slower because the snowbirds are gone and I decided to contact about 20% of the patients I had treated in my office each year from 2008 through 2014, about 200 people, to see how they were doing now. I cherry picked the ones I called as I was going to use the results in my promotions to get more new patients, so I made sure they were the ones that had the best results, most were back to 100% improvement when I released them from care. The causes of their neuropathy were all different, some with diabetes, some chemotherapy and radiation therapy for cancer, a couple of recovering alcoholics, and a group with idiopathic, where the cause is not known. 

Here’s what I found: TWO out of almost 200 patients still reported their neuropathy was under control, one from 2009 and another from 2011. The rest from 2008 to 2013 all reported that their neuropathy was just as bad if not worse than it was when they first came to see me. The ones from 2014, all reported that their neuropathy was returning, some not as severe yet, but they were all starting to have symptoms again, a couple of them I had just released from care in December of 2014, just 6 months previously.  That was only 1%, that was not what I was expecting. 

That was very eye opening and extremely disappointing. I had taken part in a study in 2010 where we had pre and post nerve tissue biopsies performed on patients that improved back to 100%.  The study proved that we could reverse the neuropathy and increase the nerve density by over 400% in severe cases and those individuals reported 5 years later their neuropathy was now just as bad if not worse than it was before they came to see me. 

I knew what I did worked for the short term, but how do I make it work for the long term? 

The answer: KEEP TREATING IT! In the fall of 2015, I started having my patients treat themselves at home and guess what the results have been supported. I have remained in contact with most of my patients since 2015 and they report they are still doing well. This is why we need to think of neuropathy like a wilted plant that we bring back to life, we need to keep giving it the things it needs so it will not wilt again.