Hi all

Well, I'm doing ok on this side. My burning skin pain has been almost gone the past week. I thought....yeehaah...this is it...no more pain....but alas....I can feel the skin burning is back, but not so bad as before.

The only thing I did different was to up my Elavil dosage from 25mg to 35mgs. Could this just be a temporary way of my body to adapt to the higher dosage? I still get vit b12 shots, take a good vit b complex '50' with 1000mg of folic acid and my 3 salmon oil capsules in the evening. Oh yes, I also take my probiotic in the morning. Other than the Elavil, nothing has changed.

I also wanted to ask if coffee ever made your neuropathic pain worse. I have no definite diagnosis from my neuro doc that this is neuropathic pain, but my specialist physician and my GP says it definitely is. Can't take Neurontin or any other SSRI or SSNRI as I get severe nerve pain from them. I think paxil started all of my burning skin pain, but I can't prove it. Just my gut feeling.

Any ideas?