I feel for you no pun intended. I have been thru the peripheral neuropathy thing for over 4 yrs. now. First of all that is a very broad diagnosis. I traveled twice to the "best of the best" in neurosurgery in the US and got no answers. One surgeon after allowing his residents to "practice" medicine on me with a very painful EMG, said that he would cut me open for some exploratory surgery guaranting nothing but a scar from the middle of my chest to my elbow. The next MD performed no tests Thank God, he only suggested a $45,000 electrostimultion box with a %41 success rate. No Thanks. Meanwhile I was offered methadose- synthetic morphine which my pain management MD assured me I would become functional on just like some of the surgeons in towm that were taking it and operating. I took neurontin up to 3200 mg per day (the more you take the less it works- the nature of the rx). Finally I am on Lyrica which has by far worked the best for me and Topamax. They are both anti-convulsants, with their share of side effects ( blurred vision, short-term memory loss being the worst to me). Benefits outweigh the shortcomings. Check out those drugs if you get a chance. Let me suggest something else. Look into RSD- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, it is what Paula Abdul has. I had never heard of it until my internist here in town mentioned it and neurologist who has dealt with it for over 10 years diagnosed me with it. First and foremost be informed, be your own advocate, and if it doesn't feel right to you then it probably isn't. Hopefully I offered you some useful info. Lyrica.