Most physicians are unsympathetic idiots, lacking a basic capacity to think in any real sense and to empathize with their patients. Yet we celebrate them, treat them like gods and pay them very generously. It's complicated why this is so and not worth getting into here, but please don't be discouraged. I had to go through two complete morons, the first of whom was convinced that I was just stressed out or had some soft tissue injury and needed physical therapy because I had a negative nerve conduction study, apparently oblivious tot he fact that SFN doesn't register on such a study and one needs to do a skin biopsy. The second time he saw me, he repeated the same crap, so I let him have it in an informed way and then walked out of his office. You should have seen his face. The second neuro was just shockingly stupid and young, not that age has anything to do with it, but she just didn't know anything. She spent our second session poking me with a needle and wait for it...concluding nothing. So all she could offer me were poles with a safety pin. Thankfully, she did ask for another nerve conduction study, yes a third one, and the neuro who did the test instead of her knew his head from his butt, and said the correct test is a skin biopsy and that I was being treated all wrong. So, for me, it was accidental that I happened on him, a young and brilliant neuro who is a professor at a leading university. So don't give up, please. We all deserve competent and compassionate care, and physicians are a sorry lot, but there are some good ones among them. I was planning on getting a referral to a third neuro from my GP before I met him. Now my GP will send future patients to him. I would have kept looking, even in another city, until I found a good one.

I wish you the best in finding a good neuro. There are people on this site who can help with some idea perhaps, and research online might be useful too. Of course, the best and sometimes only way to know is to pay them a visit. I know, it's not ideal and we shouldn't both deal with an illness and try to find someone who's not an idiot, but that's the reality of the medical profession.

Best of luck!