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I just wanted to post this in hopes it helps someone else. Back in 2009 I experienced many neurological and pain issues for over a years time without any help from doctors. This came on after a few years of prolonged stress with my wife and i going through terribly infertility issues so I new the source but did not know how to fix it. I was diagnosed with non specific peripheral neuropathy and was convinced I had a terrible neurological disease of some kind. Here are the symptoms I experienced.

Symptoms List
-Perceived weakness in limbs
-Cramping in all limbs
-Intense tingling and burning all over (mostly feet, legs and bum) non stop
-could not run very long, can only walk/stand for 15-20 mins
-pain all over (feels like a deep bone or arthritic pain)
-dizziness
-nausea
-loose bowel movements
-tremors
-bladder urgency at night
-muscle twitches all over
-exercise seems to make things worse

I had been reading many health message boards and was convinced I had MS. I had 3 MRI's, been to pain specialist and 3 different neurologist/rhumotolgist ect... I started working with a natural path who found out that my B12 was on the low side of normal and we did methly b12 injections for 5 days which helped a little but still did not resolve the problem.

I was able to finally recover over the period of about 6 months afer suffering for over a year with this. Here is what worked for me.

1) Having all test done that I wanted to help me feel better about not having a nerological disease
2) Staying off health message boards and stopped searching dr google
3) The big AH-HAH moment happened when i had to stand for a church ceremony. I told the priest that I needed a chair as i could not stand for long but he forgot to provide one. This forced me to stand 40 minutes. After that time I felt a bit worse than normal but not too much worse. I started to think maybe this is something I can deal with and recover from even though the pain and tingling was still fully there
4) Finding the website neurosymptoms.org. This website is dedicated to a list of functional neurological issues. There are many people suffering with simlar issues. I started following the greated exercise program seen here. http://www.neurosymptoms.org/physio-exercise/4533198131 (Physio / Exercise - neurosymptoms.org)

All off this drove me to stop worrying about my health and symptoms and really start trying to live my life again by going on walks, playing golf with a cart and just trying to do more and more things that I enjoyed even though I was in a lot of pain.

After months of this mindset the pain and tingling slowly started to decrease but it took many many months. I still get occasional leg pains, cramping and tingling in my body but I don't focus on it anymore and it usually goes away pretty quickly. I know all of this sounds too simple but it worked for me and it can work for you too!

See image about recovery below that I also found useful