How doctors just had out pills like candy, and don't give a rip as to how well one does. One doctor tells me to take 2400mgs a nite of neurontin...the PN doc says I should incorporate that with his little Lyrica pill....75mgs 3 times a day. I look in my medicine cabinet, and it looks like a pharmacy. It is absurd! I'm going to stay on the Lyrica....I don't like the drugged out feeling of neurontin....I never have. I have reduced the 2400 to 1600 a nite for the past couple weeks. I will continue on that until my next PN doc appointment. I never really gave the Lyrica a chance to work...maybe it was my denial of...if the Lyrica works....than that confirms that I do have PN. I just read posts of people not being able to wear shoes because of the leather irritating their feet....or the pain getting worse at nite....my "pain" is only on the bottom of my toes....only the tightness of shoes makes my feet worse. I can wear sandals all day long...Birks are great on my feet. I have trouble with tennis shoes with socks, because it seems to suffocate my feet.....oh well.....I wish I was 20 years younger again...the only thing I took was an occasional aspirin when I was running marathons and biking, playing hockey, tennis, etc. Oh well!