I didnt know the mg for the ALA but went n bought 300mg ones yesterday and have started...I am also taking vitamin a and b12...I can now walk thru a store once over and by time i come home i feel crampy and weak and fuddleminded...i didnt necesarily want pain pills...i want something that will take the edge off...something that works for nerve pain, dont give me t3 or vicodin and act like it is a great gift help closely to the heart...i KNOW there are other classes of drugs that work for nerve pain....why cant he give me something until the other meds that take a month to 2 to work????? I am just bitter I guess...i got my hopes up that i was going to finally learn what is wrong and i am not going to...i need to face the fact...the cold hard truth...according to everyone around me i am a young person who should be so active and have life by the balls and chasing the wind....following my dreams and coming into my own...according to me I am old OLD and feel old and sedate and i am burned out and i have nothing left in me to give to other people...i am broken and tired and i dun want to do anything but roll up somewhere and hibernate till science catches up and they can disect me and finally figure out there WAS something wrong with me and correct that wrong...even tho in death i will have won...i will have last word....and that sounds so bad...but if you are in pain after a while it becomes intolerable and then you just sink as more ppl around tell you how you should look, feel and do. no you dont hurt come on you just need to push thru it, it wont hurt once you get going...blah blah blah..Ugghh, I am sorry...guess I needed to rant a bit~mel