Hi, LMPinkereton. Here's one of my early posts (sometime in 2013). I think you'll find other reports like this if you search for "foot pain," though there would probably be a lot of irrelevant hits too.
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One of the early signs of my idiopathic PN was pain in my left metatarsals so severe that the orthopedist thought I had stress fractures. Did a full body bone scan--no fractures. Meanwhile he had me put into a "cam boot" which I used for almost two months to keep weight off that foot, and it did relieve the pain. And the pain was still gone when the boot came off (in June) and hasn't returned. The PN is still with me, but it seems to have moved past that particular phase, to my GREAT relief. So I hope that happens for you too.