I've given up on MANY docs...everyone has a different opinion. Been that route in my long life, but thankfully the neuropathy hit me later in life, 72, after hip replacement....I have not taken drugs MOST of my life....here and there where really needed and mild ones like 1 ibuprofen/1tylenol every 6 hrs for this mess I life with. I stretch every morning and a lot during the day. Again I'm 82.