Yeah, I'm talking about specialized PT. Which is clearly hard to come by. So if that movement is bad, then you wouldn't be doing it, you would be doing JUST less than that. But also, what I'm doing is working a lot on the desensitization which is pretty huge. Its going to be a very long slow process. So whatever I'm touching with my foot I only touch for say ten seconds at a time, and only after first experiencing it with my left (unaffected) foot first so that my brain knows it is "safe" etc.
Its a pretty careful process.

I've read about neurontin/gabapentin being abused and I honestly don't see how/why. I certainly don't get any "high" from it.

There are other meds. There are some antidepressants that also work on nerve pains. There is methadone, which is helping me. It is an opioid but it works on the nmda receptors so it is more effective than the other ones.

And there's things like the Ketamine infusions, which others here do and can talk more to than I can.