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PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND CHRONIC PAIN WARNING!

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Mesa, AZ — The most common method your doctor will recommend to treat your chronic pain and/or neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side e ects. Chronic pain and/or peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood ow to the nerves in the hands and feet which causes the nerves to begin to degenerate due to lack of nutrient ow.

As you can see in Figure 2, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not get the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms. The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Mesa that o ers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side e ects. (See the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article) In order to e ectively treat your neuropathy three factors must be determined. 1) What is the underlying cause? 2) How much nerve damage has been sustained. NOTE: Once you have sustained 95% nerve loss, there is likely nothing that we can do for you. 3) How much treatment will your condition require? The treatment that is provided at Aspen Medical has three main goals. 1) Increase blood ow 2) Stimulate and increase small ber nerves 3) Decrease brain-based pain The treatment to increase blood ow, stimulate small nerve bers and get you back to health is our new $50,000.00 SANEXAS UNIT! In addition, we use a state-of-the-art diagnostics like the TM Flow diagnostic unit to accurately determine the increase in blood ow and a small skin biopsy to accurately determine the increase in small nerve bers! The Sanexas electric cell signaling system delivers energy to the affected area of your body at varying wavelengths, including both lowfrequency and middle-frequency signals. It also uses amplitude modulated (AM) and frequency modulated (FM) signaling. During a treatment session, the Sanexas system automatically changes to simultaneously deliver AM and FM electric cell signal energy. THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT SANEXAS IS COVERED BY MEDICARE AND MOST INSURANCE! Depending on your coverage, your treatment could be little to no cost to you! The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation. As long as you have not sustained at least 95% nerve damage there is hope! Aspen Medical will do a chronic pain and neuropathy severity examination to determine the extent of the nerve damage as a public service to you and/or your family and friends. This neuropathy/pain severity examination will consist of a detailed sensory evaluation, extensive peripheral vascular testing, and a detailed analysis of the ndings of your neuropathy.

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Aspen Medical will be o ering this chronic pain and neuropathy severity examination from now until May 31, 2021. Call 480-

274-3157 to make an appointment to determine if your chronic pain and peripheral neuropathy can be successfully treated. Due to our very busy o ce schedule, we are limiting this FREE consultation o er to the rst 15 callers. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER ANOTHER MINUTE, CALL Call 480-2743157 … NOW!

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Ask Gabby Gayle Don’t give up on church

BY GAYLE LAGMAN-CRESWICK

QDear Gabby Gayle: Last month, someone wrote in, questioning whether she needed to go to church or not. She felt she was spiritual and had found the church she belonged to prior had been lled with church rules, etc. I had a similar experience with a church I joined in the past. Now I am in a good Bible-based church, where all are welcome, and they don’t have a bunch of manmade rules. My advice to her would be not to give up on churches, just nd the right one. Church really helps me to grow stronger in faith.

Signed, GB

ADear GB: Thank you for writing. Every so often this topic arises and gets lots of involvement. I will state again that I believe you can be a good person without going to church. I also believe that what you do with what you learn in church is the most important thing. Do you leave the church parking lot yelling at some little old person who cut in front of you? Do you cheat others? Do you help the less fortunate? Got the picture? Just going to church doesn’t ll the bill. You have to live it!

Signed, GG

QDear Gabby Gayle: I belong to a dating site. I am 55 years old and a widow. I would like to nd someone my age to have a serious relationship with. However, I nd that every man my age is looking for a woman 20 years younger than they are! What is wrong with these men? Do they really want to raise kids again? Or have more babies? Have you found this to be true also, or is it just me? I am ready to give up.

Signed, BR

ADear BR: I have had an opposite experience. I hear from men 20 years younger than I. They claim to like older women, which I do not believe. My rule is I will go as much as ve years younger, and older depends on what shape they are in. My divorced son is on a dating site, and he tends to want younger women, too. I was 10 years younger than my rst husband, and when he remarried, he married an even younger woman! I think these men think marrying younger will keep them feeling young or some equally silly thing! I would love to hear from men as to why they want younger women! Keep looking, BR. Remember, you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you nd your prince!

Signed, GG

QDear Gabby Gayle: I have been friends with this person for 20 years. I will still remain friends with her, but she is so tiring! I need to vent. I hear from her three or four times a week. She tells me every little chore she has done. She made the bed, she cleaned out a drawer, she cleaned the oor, had her co ee, and then she says goodbye. She has never once asked me how I am or what I am doing. Sometimes I just want to shout, “Don’t you ever wonder about me? What do you do with a friend like that?

Signed, Fed Up

ADear Fed Up: I am surprised that you are still friends! Evidently, you are the bright spot in her week. It appears that she leads a pretty boring life if all she has to share is the mundane daily chores. I might be inclined to say one day before she says goodbye, “My friend, aren’t you a little curious about what I have been up to or how I am feeling?” She is probably totally unaware that she is self-centered!

I would like to commend you for being such a loyal friend. Usually in a friendship, both derive some pleasure. No one would blame you if you moved on from her. Life is short! Thanks for writing.

Signed, GG

Con dentially to AG: Yes, Ask the Old Bag column in Colorado is the same column as Ask Gabby Gayle in Arizona. Colorado prefers the Old Bag. Smile!