And yes, if that skin biopsy report indicated there was some sort of neuropathic process going on at one site (which site), that would be consistent with at least some form of small fiber neuropathy. And people with small fiber neuropathy can be extraordinarily sensitive to both actual mechanical touch and "phantom" touch; there is a phenomenon with damaged nerves that are malfunctioning called "delayed summation" in which the nerve fiber fires long after a stimulus is removed, and the sensation seems to build over second to minutes, sometimes intolerably, before eventually dying back down.

Some people become so sensitive with small fiber syndromes that they cannot tolerate clothing, breezes, bathing . . .and/or some have spontaneous burning and other sensations when there are no stimuli at all. Damaged nerves do all sorts of things the brain has difficulty interpreting . . .

Do post here whenever you feel up to it; we do worry about long absences. (I get all sorts of messages when I don't post for a while.)