for long time PN'ers. I've read that for some sufferers it can take 18-24 months for nerves to die off at which time much of the pain can be replaced w/ numbness. I also know you can still experience both based on my own symptoms and talking w/ other sufferers but my question relates to assessing the progression of PN.

Have any members of the group experienced any sort of reduction in pain as the PN progressed despite your best efforts (my situation now, i.e. the PN seems to be progressing despite everything I'm doing - my less than scientific assessment based solely on how I feel, no statistical analyses or control studies). Since I have a mixed sensorimotor polyneuropathy I know that both A and C fibers are involved w/ most of my problems from the C fibers.

Perhaps there is a better way to ask the ? but I'll start here.
Thanks in advance.

Alkymst