I've had neuropathy for over four years now. Originally my Doctor told me it was a fallen arch type problem and just gave me paracetamol for it. I eventually got to the stage it got so bad pain wise the Doctor decided to try me on things like Gabbapentin and such.
I had around two years of going through all that range of meds and not getting any relief from the pain.The GP at the time ran out of options for me and put me on 20 mg of sustained relief morphine twice daily which helped a little.
Have since changed GP a year ago and was on 40 mg morphine twice daily at the time of change in GP. The new GP currently has me on 60 mg of Oxycontin twice daily and I have a supply of 10 mg Oxynorm, which I can take up to four a day of.
I must admit to hating taking these meds because they're twice as strong as morphine and have the same or similar side effects. I usually try not to take the full daily dosages because of the side effects.
It'd sure be good if there was something else out there that helped and doesn't have the side effects this does.
I have the compounded problem of also having heal spurs, which the hospital here doesn't deem important enough to operate on, so unfortunately I'm a bit limited on the amount of excercise I can get.
One thing I've noticed is that the hotter my feet get, the more pain I get, I've been told that that's because of my bad circulation and the arteries swelling, as to whether that is in fact the case or not, I don't know. I have found cooling my feet down a bit helps with reducing the pain. Due to a lack of feeling in my feet these days, I have to check them by feeling them with my hands to find out how hot/cold they are now.