The dreaded word - "idiopathic." Great to know on one hand that it's not any dreaded disease - but SO frustrating that there's no definitive cause for which treatment could be effective.

You mention gabapentin. Wishing you some sort of relief from that.

Just returned from the Headline News segment of Neurotalk up above and found an article on page 4 titled:

New Drug Targets Chronic Pain, Won?t Dull Acute Pain.

Testing sounds as if it's been completed, and this drug seems to show a lot of promise in rats of targeting the chronic pain of neuropathy.

Maybe somebody else at this forum has already mentioned it, but thought it couldn't hurt to bring it up anyway.

You have a furface? Is he a Weimaraner?

Sheltiemom