As I said before this is difficult to answer.
My impression is that if you had alcoholic induced PN you would have it elsewhere as well. But yours is confined to a tissue injury site only.
No one here can say for certain what you should do about recreational alcohol use.
Some tissues when damaged never are the same again.
For example:
My surgical foot was very numb on the instep for many years where the long scar is. Then feeling came back so I could feel the skin there slowly. And now that I am older that ankle swells up for no reason, and the area of the scar hurts. I don't know why and none of the doctors I asked know either. I just get hmmmmm and blank looks.
Some things "just are" following an injury or surgery.
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