The meeting Melody refers to is the monthly meeting of the New York City Neuropathy Association support group. I've been to a number of them (though not this month--my son's basketball team is in the midst of playoffs and they had a game Thursday night, and I'm assistant coach), and anyone can come--there are many discussions of experiences, treatments, research, and the like.

I definitely want to come to the next one, as I too am skeptical of laser treatment being able to "cure" neuropathy. Those of us who've done our homework are quite aware of how elusive and persistent this beast is, and how to this point there's been little that is effective across all the many different types and manifestations of neuropathy.

There may be use for lasers applied in certain ways. Obviously, lasers can be used to burn away certain nerve overactive pathways, as in a rhizotomy--though I doubt the technology is advanced enough to make this practical for many people, as the laser would have to be targeted with micrometric accuracy on certain pathways and not others--and lasers targeted at certain tissues might help with circulation, as in anodyne therapy, which can secondarily help with neuropathy and other conditions primarily by promoting the conditions for healing--allowing oxygen and blood-carried nutrients into damaged neural areas and allowing for wastes and toxins to be transported out--but I am skeptical of global claims.