I can heal from it and after 3-4 months the painful sensations are gone and I just have the cold water and by 6 months they aren't very much and just water in the feet. By 18 months the sensations are gone I think. That is what I've experienced. I think I then went a year without them last time. I don't know how I went 28 months without an upper respiratory infection, so maybe I'm forgetting something.

I have a hypothesis. The only other thing is that I've noticed the papillae on the tip of my tongue die off sometimes and especially when I get an upper respiratory infection. This is probably because I stick my tongue in my nasal cavity to spit out the mucous so it doesn't drip.

Maybe I should stop doing that and see if the thing with my tongue doesn't happen next time and if the neuropathies don't happen either. Not really sure about that, but worth a try. It certainly never caused neuropathies before I took those antibiotics and I'd been doing that for about 15 years when I get an upper respiratory infection, but I think the tongue may have changed, but I've only noticed it in recent years.

If geographic tongue are the dying off of nerves on the tongue from an immune error, then maybe if the body is attacking that while you have a systemic virus going on it will then attack some other nerves too. Maybe it confuses the taste buds ( nerves ?) on the tongue with the virus the body is fighting and then finds some other nerves, also sensory, around the body and inflames them. That is an interesting hypothesis of mine.

This may not happen with geographic tongue under normal circumstances unless the geographic tongue is caused by exposing the tongue to too much systemic virus or mucous like constantly stick your tongue into your nasal cavity. A geographic tongue caused by local immune response with no systemic infection may not then relay an error to attack sensory nerve cells throughout the body so this would explain why geographic tongue would not normally cause this response.