If you go to the links provided by MrsD, Glenn, Wings, Rose (if/when she visits) and a few others here- you will learn more about PN than your doc knows.
Your doc can't keep up. ......... You can.
If you have a good relationship with your doc, s/he will be open to new things you find out about (mine was listening to me & we were talking about Lyrica a year before it became available).
If you don't have that kind of a relationship, you'd better start looking around. ....This is going to be a long, bumpy ride.
I was ignerent (sp intentional!) of my condition when I was first Dx'd.
I found the old site (and a few others) and moved here with the rest.
I learned..... a lot !
When I see some post that rings a bell in my head, I chime in. I'm still ignerent, but my doc & I talk, and I learn more all the time.
We come here to share experiences, not to diagnose. Sometimes we warn , because of our own past experience, we don't offer medical advice, we offer our collective knowledge ..... as a friend.
We aren't neurologists, but we do seek out medical knowledge about our own condition(s).
We're here to help, because others have helped us and we want to take part in helping others. Kinda like a pay-back, if you will. (But I'm still learning more from this site, every day)
That's why I'm here, and why I think I'll stick around a while longer.