Joe,

Actually and according to painonline.org they are linked. What that particular website helped me the most with is how the nerves act or what is occuring when they are damaged. It makes more sense to me simply because every test I have ever had came back negative for anything...as in idiopathic and she even said it almost didn't show up. Anyway, her reasoning is pretty much what Melody is spelling out about the brain and such. In any case, this is probably why meds like Neurontin and Lyrica didn't do a thing for me. Neither did the supplements. But the benzos worked! Xanax was tried as a last resort, and that was the ticket. But I didn't want to take 3 a day so she switched me to Klonopin and it has helped. I am just saying that being a spinal disorders person what I have read on this other site makes much more sense to me. So, it is possible I have both...no need to really differentiate since it is all neuropathic pain anyway. But it does explain to me why most meds did not work.