Treating neuropathy with medicines—lots of them.
You type “medicines to treat neuropathy” and then sneak a peek at the clock. It’s nearly time for a coffee break and you just need to finish that last article your boss is asking you to do when all of a sudden, your hand stops working. You will it to move, sending signals from your brain to your arm, down to your fingers. But it doesn’t budge an inch. You panic.
That’s how it happened to me last year. I went to about three doctors, had gone crazy and broke, before one pinpointed it as neuropathy. It was a disease I’ve never heard of it before but I assumed curing it would cost a lot. True enough, it did. I had to drink four kinds of medicines, most of which I had to drink three times a day. There have been side effects—I was sleepy all day; I felt sluggish; I got fat; and I often had dizzy spells that lasted for days—but that was the price I had to pay (other than the monetary kind, of course) for the medicines. I had to get well as soon as possible after all.
Treating neuropathy with medicines takes a lot of time.
I’ve been taking the recommended medicines to treat neuropathy for more than a year now and fortunately, there have been results. I haven’t fully recovered yet but my doctor says I will; I just need to keep drinking my medicines. I’ve realized that I can’t rush things with this type of sickness. Oh well. They say patience is a virtue that leads to salvation. I hope that patience is really one of the medicines used to treat neuropathy.