Wide-O, your case sounds a lot like mine. The balls of the feet, particularly behind the big and second toe are where I feel it the most. Largely symmetric. Pain definitely peaked right before I got sober. Now I don’t have much pain, just discomfort. The discomfort is fine in short spells but can wear me down when I have to stand for more than a few minutes.

How long after you stopped drinking did you hit your baseline? Said another way, do you know roughly when the improvement stopped and you hit the point of “this is probably as healed as the nerves will get”?

Also I’m mostly fine barefoot but shoes tend to activate the issue. Any similarities there?

Thank you again for the counsel. Scary stuff.