Can neuropathy get better or is it always progressive? I don't know much about it other than what I've researched online which from what I could find, doesn't look promising. Is destroyed myelin the only cause? And if so, can it repair itself? Ever?

So, I'm only 25 years old and early one morning in August I woke up to what felt like an electric shock feeling in my inner left calf! It was the worst pain I had ever felt in my entire life, thus far. I'm healthy, active but not TOO active to where it could've been from injury. I have NO idea where this came from. It would last .25 seconds (it was local - felt like I was being tazed, not traveling down my body or my leg) and was gone. It would come and go anywhere between 3 min and 3 hrs. Got further and further apart as the day went on. However, since that day, I haven't felt it that severely again, BUT I still get mini versions of the pain every day - these however, aren't enough to stop me in my tracks & make me cry out like the more severe ones did. But they still hurt and are very disturbing. And occasionally now as time as gone on, I sometimes feel it in my right leg.

Has anyone ever felt this? I'm young so of course I am TERRIFIED I'll never get rid of it and have to live the rest of my life like this. I have bad anxiety and hypochondria too so now that has kicked in as well and is causing a myriad of other weird symptoms and sensations.

My neuro didn't seem to have any answers for me, but did a lumbar MRI last week which came back fine (at least I assume so since they never called to tell me otherwise). I was frustrated with that...of course I don't want anything wrong with me, but clearly something is, and if something would've shown up on the MRI like a pinched nerve or something then at least we could start to treat it! I don't see my neuro again for 2 weeks so he can go over it.

Is this something that will get better over time, or will it get worse? Like I said, I only felt it that severely for one day but every day since then I've had some form of pain that feels electric-like. How do you treat a pain like this that is so sudden and is gone within a second? I'm a mess.

Also, through all my online research on this, I've come across acupuncture as a potential help. Has anyone done it for nerve pain? I've never been one to believe in alt medicine but hey if it's worked for anyone I'm totally doing it!