First, MP is the one condition that gets worse from Standing and walking. No if ands or buts, OUCH!!!! You are going to need to do some Occupational Therapy to find a position while standing that does not cause inflammation and pain. Which basically means, you need to be standing on the other foot, and the MP leg, raise it up on a stool, or something. The OT people have many options. Cane or Crutches if you are walking anything to get pressure off that nerve. Standard Anti-Inflammatories will always help, I used Cataflam, alieve, ibuprofin, and a few other Prescription ones.. cause I needed to rotate them every few years.

Sleeping! Lidocaine Patches! On a Shaven Leg only!!! numbs the pain, and adds a buffer between the skin/hair and the bed/cloths. MP is light touch only, so hair moving, or just brushing of cloths is all the pain. I suffered for years before I figured out that shaving my leg makes all the difference.

Steroid Injections: Steroid Injections for MP are just under the skin right at the point where the LFCN dives under the hip at the waist. Very minor in the doctors office every few months took care of a lot of the pain. Shortly after they figured out I had MP, and started the Injections, I had the surgery to cut the nerve. So I am not sure how effective it was for my standing tolerance, but I know it went from 5-10 minutes to at least a 1/2 hour.

Strength and exercise always helps too, as well as the weight loss. The only way that worked for me is Deep Water Aqua Aerobics. Arthritis Foundation has classes at almost all YMCA's for $1. We also have a Lazy River in our Rec Center, and it is used more for people water walking than people floating around. Greatest Accidental pieces of exercise equipment in the place Local hospital even does their Water Therapy in the Lazy River now.