My name is David, and I am a fifty-eight-year-old general contractor. For over thirty years, my life has been spent on my feet—walking on concrete slabs, framing houses in the cold, and operating heavy machinery. While I expected some joint…
There is a particular cruelty in teaching yoga with arthritic joints. I am 51 years old, I have been a yoga and movement instructor for 21 years, and for the last four of those years I have been quietly managing…
I spent 24 years as an operating room nurse and developed the occupational hazard that affects a significant proportion of nursing professionals: type 2 diabetes. It arrived quietly at 51, managed well with metformin and lifestyle changes, and I had…
After 24 years as an operating room nurse and five years managing diabetic peripheral neuropathy, I had tried the pharmaceutical options — gabapentin was sedating, duloxetine had mood effects — and had settled on Nervala’s ALA-benfotiamine protocol for the oxidative…
I had my first gout attack at 52 — right big toe, a Tuesday night after an indulgent business dinner. By morning I had a rheumatology appointment and a diagnosis: serum uric acid at 9.2 mg Allopurinol followed, it worked,…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about the neurological symptoms that had been creeping into my daily life. Like many adults in their mid-fifties, I had dismissed the occasional tingling in my hands and feet, the increasingly unreliable…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my joint pain. Like many adults in their late forties who have lived an active life — decades of running, weightlifting, and outdoor activities — I had begun experiencing the accumulated…
I tripped over my granddaughter’s toy wagon last October. It was not a dramatic fall — I caught myself on the counter edge in time. But what disturbed me was the why: I had not felt the wagon under my…
I spent thirty-two years as a registered nurse. I was on my feet for twelve-hour shifts for most of that career, first in orthopedics and then in a neurology ward. I know what nerve damage looks like on a chart,…
My name is Margaret. I spent thirty-one years as a registered nurse — the last eighteen of them in a hospital neurology ward. I have sat at the bedside of patients managing peripheral neuropathy. I have watched what untreated nerve…