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What home remedies or other treatments can you recommend for numbness in leg from nerve damage? urgent
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See below: Try over the counter zostrix (capsaicin). But if known nerve damage, then it may be that nothing will help.
Answered 3/4/2013
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None will help: Home remedies are generally worthless but there are prescription meds that can often significantly reduce your symptoms.
Answered 3/26/2013
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