Thanks V5 for a thought provoking thread.
I remeber when I first started the journey 7 years ago and started to really immerse myself in PN forums. I did find after a while that life was going to be pretty grim. Did I need to know that at the time? Actually the answer is no because I did a hell of a lot of worrying basing my future on information that was mostly posted in state of deep desperation.

I remember at one stage I started getting the same symptoms I would read about within a few hours for example someone saying their left elbow was getting numb would trigger mine. I left the forums after one fellow told of his groin going completely numb but of course that had nothing to do with it , it was just my PN progressing naturally.