Hi Mike. Sorry that you've become a member of our 'club'...I'd kick you out if I could.

I've been dealing with PN for about 3-1/2 years, and I still backslide into steps 3 & 4, although I like to think that I'm working through 5 & 6 most of the time.

Living in the here and now...that's good advice. But I also don't give up on the hope that someday my pain might become less intense or that modern medicine might come up with an answer. Who knows what all they're coming up with on the stem cell front, for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...9&searchtype=a

Good thing that was just the abstract. Tring to read even that gave me a headache in my eye.

Ditto, ditto, and... ditto.

I hear you about locking down the attitude. Humor and trying to view things philosophically (there's some ironic humor right there) have been my lifelines. PN is the third time I've been down this road of having to change my whole cussed lifestyle. Wish I had some golden nuggets for you.

Doc