Hi Joan,
I've been idiopathic since my diagnosis six years ago. I go to a pain management clinic and I feel like they are meeting my needs at this time, but should I need to increase any dosages I would be hard pressed to get there. The state I live in are airing commercials about prescription drug abuse and how it caused 300 deaths last year. I feel they are becoming very conservative because of this campaign, more like scared about getting in trouble with the feds..... I know there is abuse with opiates and that it is nothing new but it doesn't allow much for those of us who take them to prevent break-through pain or accelerated symptoms with this disease.
I believe I will never know the cause of my neuropathy as it hit me like a freight train in the middle of the night, my personal belief is viral, I had been sick a couple of weeks prior to the onset???? Who knows.......good luck Joan with your new doctor.