I don't drink at all, but anyone can get peripheral neuropathy. It happened to me after a revision surgery on my right foot where the surgeon didn't use a nerve block. As a result, I have numbness and pain in toes and metatarsals which travels up leg (sural nerve). It's ruined any walking, and now is affecting the other foot. Waking up with burning pain in heel, and big toe infrequently.
I've been to a pain specialist who prescribed pregabalin, and morphine patches, but these only mask the symptoms - they don't CURE it. So WHAT does?