Successful Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy
by David Archibald
5 December 2024
Midyear a bloke called Ted asked me to advise him on his peripheral neuropathy, a progressive nerve disease of the body’s extremities. He had covid in January and developed peripheral neuropathy a few weeks later. Peripheral neuropathy was one of the diseases associated with HIV and, given the similarities between HIV and covid, Ted’s January bout of covid could have been the proximate cause of his condition.
As it is best to treat the underlying condition if you hope to cure the disease that’s causing symptoms, a protocol was formulated with a big antiviral component combined with maximising immune response:
Immune
Vitamin D ` 10,000 IU/day
Nicotinamide 1 capsule per day
Omega-3 2 capsules per day
Quercetin 1 capsule per day
Zinc glycinate 30 mg per day
Trametes versicolor extract 6 level teaspoons per day
Melatonin 20 mg per day
Antiviral
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 1 tablet/day
Ivermectin 2 tablets/day
Doxycycline 100 mg tablet/day
Tanshinone IIA 1 teaspoon/day
Ted agreed to trial the protocol for three months with lymphocyte panels at the beginning and end. By the end of the three months, Ted’s symptoms had improved substantially. Ted’s doctor had never seen a peripheral neuropathy patient improve before.
In the lymphocytes, his CD4 count went from 830 million cells per ml to 940 million cells per ml, an improvement which is just on the verge of significance. But it is also better than going down, which would indicate progression of an underlying covid infection.
David Archibald is the author The Anticancer Garden in Australia