Julie, what your doctor is doing doens't seem unreasonable. Sounds like he or she is going through the arsenal of medications for neuropathy, and trying them one by one, or one and one. I'm not a puritan about narcotics, but in my experience, they often cause as much trouble as they solve, and so they really should be a last resort. If you need them, you need them, but trying the non narcotis is important.

There's a sticky which lists all the drugs commonly used for pn, and it's thorough. The antidepressants are very helpful, and you could probably be helped more by being on one. Or Elavil, in small doses, before bed. I take 40mg of elavil and it deepens my sleep or lightens the pain or something, but it allows me to sleep through.

There are other things to do===if your feet are burning, a bag of frozen peas;' it they're cold, warm wax from a hot wax machine. Lotion. The Rebuilder or a TENS unit. All these are ways of coping without going to stronger pills that have a larger side effect spectrum.

Hope you try some an dfind some help.

Julie:

When my feet burn, I use a form of BioFreeze that I got in CVS. It's called FREEZE IT. It's the exact same thing as Bio-freeze.

Really stops the burning. At least in my case it does.

Melody

Here is a link to the pain medication most often used for PN as well as the supplements. This is the one Liza Jane was referring to. : http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...7&postcount=13

Billye

This is the first time I've tried to do a copy and paste on this machine, hope it worked.

Ooo! I'll have to check that out. I have found that when my feet are bothering me if I move them to a cooler spot in the bed it helps a lot. At least for a few minutes.