It's all very interesting. Though my PN is still classified as being ideopathic, I really still want to have hope that through a good diet, the proper supplements and adequate rest, my PN might someday still have a chance of getting better. I guess I need that hope, because I have learned in my case and I am sure in the case of many others, that my state of mind REALLY affects my PN. When I get upset, cry, go into depair over my PN, I can just feel the pain intensify so much and actually spread around my body. The opposite is also so true. When I am distracted, happy, or laughing and yes, feeling hope about my PN, my pain level is less. I so want and need to feel that hope. It's so good to hear of success stories. I keep going into the stickys and reading those stories. I also admit, when I hear that some neurologists have said that it some cases it has gone away, I realize that is very rare, but just to hear it. I guess just the impact it has on one psychologically....