Hello! keep that hope alive. Start reading the forums on PN. There really are some treatments that make it better. Also B12 is really good to help with it.
Mrs.D is perhaps the best on NT, for information on PN. I use multiple therapies, and have reduced my pain greatly in the last year. For a time walking was so painful I was in a wheel chair. This year I am walking again and much better. So YES, keep the hope alive, and seek professionals who know something about PN. I go see a physiatrist, who is wonderful. This is a field of medicine that not too many know about. A physiatrist uses many different approaches to get the best results, and often think outside the box. I go for acue puncture for the first time next week. I hope that you can find some therapy that will reduce your pain to a tolerable level. PM me, and I can list some of the things I am doing. ginnie