I have trouble with titles, but I am trying to ask those of you who are more experienced with PN than myself -- does PN strike for 15-30 minutes, then go away?

In the last couple of months I have had sudden, severe pain hit the back of my foot, the bridge on top, my ankle area, my hands (especially the left hand), I have a "tooth ache" about 1/3 of the time (dentist took xrays, some weird machine that circled my head, he fixed my "bite" and so on, pain is still there) -- and the pain can be the upper or lower left side of my mouth, rib cage hurts at times, right thigh muscle hurts ....

When these pains strike in my feet, I can't bear to put weight on the afflicted foot. Too painful. I use my forearm crutch or crawl to the couch to lay down.

My left hand hurts a lot. My little finger feels like it is broken. Any touch sets off a very severe pain surge. I can't even tear a sugar packet in two when at a restaurant, it hurts too much to pull the paper apart. AND my left hand feels weak at the same time.

I feel like I need to use the bathroom a LOT. Never mind if I just had a normal BM, my system tells me to go again. It is so bad I now take my laptop with me.

Thanks to MRSD's help, and a half mg of Mirapex, my RLS seems to be contained and not bothering me now. Thank You Lord for that.

With over a hundred different PNs, I don't see how they can narrow it down. Maybe one medication works on most PN problems? It is 2:31am and I haven't been to sleep yet. I woke up yesterday at around 4am. At night, I wake up in pain. My rib cage one night, my
left hand another night, my neck hurt another night. PN? Who knows.

So do any of you have pains that don't last all day? 30 minutes? A tooth ache that is not a tooth ache? When I feel an unusual pain now my first thought is, "Is THIS PN?"
A year ago I would have attributed it to old age. I am not in pain all the time, just enough of the time I don't know what to expect each day. Strange disease.