Joan’s Boomer Blog

I’ve been busy traveling for most of December or busy with the holidays, so I haven’t given an update on my

Natural Neuropathy Treatment

trip to the neurologist for test results. I had some blood tests for possible causes of the small fiber neuropathy I’m experiencing.

Nothing can wreck havoc on retirement like developing health issues as we get older. Actually, those issues have probably been developing for many years, but they can grow debilitating in our senior years.

Thousands of people suffer from some form of neuropathy, which causes tingling, pins and needles and numbness, mainly in the hands and feet. It can be caused from a medical condition, such as diabetes or a thyroid problem, vitamin deficiencies and other reasons. Small fiber neuropathy can cause the tingling sensation throughout the body. For some forms of neuropathy there is no obvious cause.

Treatment depends on the cause, if it can be determined. If not, a neurologist will prescribe various drugs which work on the nervous system to dull the symptoms (and they dull some of the rest of you too!) but don’t really treat the cause.

As it turns out, all the tests I took (and have ever taken for neuropathy) were totally normal so I was back to square one as to cause and treatment. As always, my neurologist couldn’t offer me any real advice, except that at some point, if I wanted to try drugs, he could prescribe some. Having spent some time looking up possible side effects to those drugs, though, I think I’d have to be pretty bad off to actually subject my body to that.

As readers know, I believe in researching our own health issues so we know the latest on alternative treatments and remedies which might be helpful. I decided to try something called Nerve Support Formula for Relief of Peripheral, Diabetic & Poly Neuropathy Nerve Pain, which is a natural remedy.

I did my own test for the effectiveness of Nerve Support on my neuropathy symptoms. I took one bottle per the directions for 30 days and my tingling did seem to be better. I decided to stop taking it to see what happened and the tingling got worse in a few days. I decided to order another bottle and start taking it again and, after a couple days, the symptoms diminished again.

You’re supposed to start by taking four capsules per day and over time, when your symptoms lessen, you can decrease the dosage to maintain the improvement.

If you suffer from neuropathy, it’s important to see your doctor to find out if they can determine a treatable cause. In many cases, though, even if you do know the cause and are treating it, the neuropathy symptoms remain.

The information on this product says it can help many people, no matter what the cause of their neuropathy. It did work for me and I think it would be worth it for anyone with neuropathy to try before taking medications which only handle symptoms and don’t really treat the cause.

Ordering through Amazon, you can also get free shipping.

This has been a great year for my boomer blog. I’ve connected with lots of wonderful readers and I

Molly in her Christmas hat

appreciate all of you! I’ve tried to tackle topics I hope are of interest and I’d love to hear from you on what you’d like to read about this upcoming year in the areas of health, wealth, retirement or whatever tickles your fancy.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Joan’s Boomer Blog

And from all our happy household!

Here’s to a healthy, prosperous New Year to all of our readers!

Lucy napping under the tree

Tater the Cat in his favorite spot

Who wouldn’t like a Four Hour Work Week? Make all your money in just 4 hours a week, then use the rest of

The 4 Hour Work Week

your time to do all the things you enjoy? If you’re a 20-something with your career ahead of you, or approaching retirement but still need or want to work part time, or perhaps you’ve lost your job in the recent economic downturn and fear you won’t find another, the book The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated could very possibly change your life.

In The 4 Hour Work Week, by Timothy Ferriss puts forth the idea that there really is no “fulfilling” job. The best job, and the one we all really want, is the one which takes the least time and makes us the most money. Just imagine, if you someone offered you a job you could do anywhere in the world, paid you the amount of money you desired to support your lifestyle and took only 4 hours a week, wouldn’t you take it? The beauty behind Tim Ferriss’s book is that no one has to offer you this job, you create it yourself and he tells you how.

The first part of The 4 Hour Work Week pertains to employees who are currently working 80 hour weeks and want to escape the rat race. Tim tells you how to do that. The part of the book I was most interested in, though, was the part that told you how to build your own 4 hour work week business. Every single resource you could possibly need is there and the entire process is laid out for you with steps to follow. This is the part of the book you could use to finance a permanent retirement, working minimal hours but still having the income to enjoy life in any way you choose.

In Timothy Ferriss’s best life, he travels, living in different countries for months at a time, operating his business remotely using just 4 hours a week of his time. He even offers tips and guidelines for anyone who wants to do the same. Instead of working for years and then retiring, he says you should take “mini-retirements” all through your life.

While I would love to travel and spend maybe three weeks or a month in England or France, living abroad for months isn’t really on my list of things I want to do at this stage of my life. However, my husband and I do want to travel the US in our RV and it would be nice to have a income from something that only took 4 hours a week.

I got a Kindle 3G Wireless as an early Christmas present because I was going to spend nearly 3 weeks with my parents and my husband thought it would be great for the trip. I subscribed to the 14 day free subscriptions of USA Today and my hometown newspaper and bought a nice book of fiction to occupy me on the trip. While shopping the Kindle store, (from my Kindle!) I stumbled on The Four Hour Work Week. I thought, “This has to be too good to be true,” or some other type of come on.

I love reading reviews of books or other products before I buy and this book has an astounding 911 5 star reviews and 112 4 star reviews. Out of over 1,000 reviews, there were only 24 1 and 2 star reviews. I read all the negative reviews first and the only hesitation I had in buying the book was that it sounded too good to be true. However, I decided to go with the majority and buy the book. I am so glad I did!

You don’t have to be an exec working 80 hour weeks to build a 4 hour work week with this book. The process is simple really. You invent or find a product to sell, test it thoroughly and then market it and Tim explains how to do this. If you want to invent a product, you might think along the lines that I am and come up with an information product to sell - audios, a guide book and other materials. If you choose to find a product or build a store, Tim offers resources for that as well. They drop ship the product for you an the entire process is automated.

One thing I love about the Kindle is that you can highlight and bookmark different parts and then review them later. I have lots highlighted in this one.

I’ve seen that this remote business management work in my own business on a small scale. I have blogs and Amazon affiliates and earn money from Google Adsense. When I am home, I spend about 5 hours a day on various computer tasks, writing articles, promoting my blogs, etc. When I travel, I spend one hour, 5 days a week or less, and the money still comes in, without me doing a thing. I can put my business on remote control for 2-3 weeks without affecting anything.

If I can do this on a small scale, I can see how it would also work on a large scale and I am eager to try the steps laid out in The 4 Hour Work Week. I still have a week or so before I return home but the ideas are already working as to what I can do and how. I intent to follow Tim’s steps letter for letter and see how it turns out.

Even if I don’t become a citizen of the work and take tango lessons in Brazil like Tim Ferriss, I have some great ideas about how I would like to spend my time (The first step in the process is deciding how you’d like to spend all the free time you will have.)

I’ll keep you posted on how the process is going for me but in the meantime, get The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content for yourself, try the process and let me know what you think of it.

This book is going to be in my daughter’s Christmas stocking this year!