--even if you did not technically have peripheral neuropathy at the original incarnation of your symptoms, the surgeries certainly have put you in the group, as you have neuropathic pain caused by damage of some sort to peripheral nerves.

There are literally hundreds of KNOWN causes of neuropathy (never mind the "idiopathic" "causes"). The commonality is peripheral nerve damage resulting in symptomolgy. I have TWO different syndromes--an idiopathic body-wide burningly painful small-fiber syndrome, and now, since September, a C6/C7 right-side compressive radiculopathy causing numbness and parasthesia in my right palm/thumb/forefinger/middle finger. Both are technically neuropathies, even though the symptoms are very different (I knew the latter was not part of the former syndrone from the instant it started; it was just fundamentally different in kind--much easier to diagnose).

You've been through a lot, much of it not of your own making, and while no one would ever tell you not to search out other boards and sources related to your own particular etiology, you are certainly bonded to others here in the search for nerve symptom relief. It would be a shame if you didn't engage in the give and take here (the recent brouhaha notwithstanding); you may teach as much as you may learn.