Sunshine.....it won't hurt to try the lyrica or neurontin.

As another poster said, they don't have pain when involved in some creative endeavor....I too have found that helps...however, the next day, I can bearly move and pay for my creative endeavors. But, at least you are distracted for a while.

It is a matter of finding balance between activity and rest, between tolerable pain and intolerable pain.

Anxiety is the WORST. I avoid toxic people and toxic situations like the plague. I remind myself that for millenia, people have coped with neuropathy.

And, like the other poster....I use a well placed hydrocodone (vicodin).

I am sure their are a million alternative treatments you can try too.

We all come to this forum hoping we can find an etiology, then a cure, or at least a decent way to manage this, and the fact is, many find no etiology, no cure and treatment is hit and miss, with a great deal of personal experimentation.