{ "item_title" : "Feet First", "item_author" : [" Ellen Marsh "], "item_description" : "You have a diagnosis and a prescription. What you do not have is a plan. It is eleven at night and you are standing on the kitchen tile because the cold tile is the only thing that helps. You have a bottle on the counter you have not opened, a drawer full of things you bought at two in the morning, and a browser tab open to a clinic that wants six thousand dollars up front. Your neurologist sees you for twenty minutes twice a year. You have the other 8,700 hours. This is the operator's manual for those hours. Here is the fact that reorganizes everything. For the standard first-line medications used in nerve pain, published research suggests that between four and eight people need to take a given drug for one of them to get substantial relief. That number is not discouraging - it is liberating. It means a drug that failed you was arithmetic, not a verdict. And it means that if the pills are carrying that modest a load, something else is carrying the rest. That something else is you, and the parts nobody explained. Inside this book:The two-minute daily foot check - with a decision rule for every single thing you might find, including the one finding that means a phone call within twenty-four hours and that most people mistake for a bruiseHow to actually run a medication trial, with a written protocol, a ramp schedule, a defined success target, and a stop rule - the four things missing when a drug doesn't workA progressive balance program you can start today at a kitchen counter, aimed at the fall that ends independence, because the fall is what takes the house - not the painThe seven-question filter that lets you evaluate any supplement, clinic, laser, seminar, or device aimed at you in under two minutes, for the rest of your lifeThe truth about nerve supplements, including the extremely common ingredient in nerve support formulas that is itself a recognized cause of peripheral neuropathy - go check your own bottle tonightThe federal footwear benefit most readers with diabetes qualify for and have never used, with the exact phone scriptWhat a complete diagnostic workup contains, so your search for a missed cause can finally have an endingSeparate sections for diabetic neuropathy, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, and idiopathic neuropathy - plus a one-page letter you can hand to the family members who keep telling you to walk more and to sit downWritten in plain English at a kitchen table, with real warmth and no false hope. Current as of 2026, including the 2020 topical patch approval, the 2021 spinal cord stimulation approval, and the 2022 neurology guideline. Every claim is sourced so you can check it. No cure is promised anywhere in these pages. What is promised is this: fewer injuries, better pain control than you have now, a meaningfully lower chance of the fall that ends your independence, and several hundred dollars a year that stays in your pocket. You have been standing in the dark doing arithmetic with no good answer. Turn the page.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/273/9798192737279_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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