Many of us have considerable pain--burning, stabbing, electrical, you name it (and nerve pain is hard to describe to those who haven't experienced it)--but not all nerve damage leads to pain. Some results in numbness, some in the dimunition of positional sense or balance, some in inability to move muscles (motor neuron damage); it depends on which nerves are attacked, and by what agent. (I locally know of people with neuropathy who have no disruptions in sensation, but have motor neuropathies--they have trouble moving, fall, drop things due to difficulty in gripping.)

The symptoms can be so varied--and can overlap with those caused by central nervous system damage, as opposed to peripheral--that it's no wonder so many of us have to go through such expensive and lengthy investigations to find the causes of our symptoms--IF these causes can be found.