--or CIDP, is only one type of peripheral neuropathy.

It is often considered to be the slower onset form of Guillain Barre syndrome, and often follows a relapsing-remitting course; it's been likened to a multiple sclerosis of the peripheral nerves. Symptoms vary, but for most people motor symptoms predominate over sensory ones.

It is sad that more specific neuropathies were not mentioned. In my experience neuropathies that involve the small, unmyelinated fibers that subsume the sensations of pain and temperature are often the most painful, and the pain in these is unlike regular nociceptive pain--it is pain of damaged nerves sending erroneous signals and variously interpreted by the brain as burning, lancing, electrical jolting, involving phantom sensations, and the like. The sensations are hard to describe--my favorite way is to have someone imagine that they've received a bad sunburn and then had it rubbed down with steel wool.