Hi and sorry you are going down this road.

I get help from the stong magnets and Salon Pas patches. I apply them at night and they seem to quiet the nerve endings. Both are inexpensive - a box of the patches runs about 5 bucks and the magnets can be had for less than a buck each (get high gauss mags - find them online).

I can understand the doc's reluctance to prescribe Neurontin if the Lyrica isn't working - although they are different drugs, they aren't that far apart in effect; the Lyrica tends to be stronger, from what I have read. Neurontin, however, can be obtained in the generic form - maybe worth a shot.

If you can rethink your approach to alcohol at all, it could make a big difference. I have spoken to some different docs, one at a large teaching hospital, who told me neuropathy due to alcohol can reverse if one quits ingesting it.

Good luck with all of it!