My first symptom of SFN was severe burning feet, which started after a long day of walking in flimsy shoes. It tormented me daily for a year, then went away for several years, then returned more mildly, followed by some other sensory abnormalities. The things I found that helped my feet were: removing shoes whenever possible, avoiding any friction, pressure, or vibration on my soles as much as possible, changing shoes once or more over the course of a day, lidocaine patches (on top of feet even though it was only my soles that were burning--adhesive patches just don't work on the bottom), and menthol-type lotions such as Biofreeze, Max-Freeze, etc. The roll-on forms don't get your hands all greasy. Now there is also an Aspercreme lidocaine roll-on. I was really resistant to all my doctors' ideas of using a of using a systemic medication for such a localized problem and got the ideas for these topical products from this forum. Good luck!