It’s very common. I’ve tried gabapentin with amitriptyline compounded cream for my neuropathy—I didn’t really see much change, but everyone is different. Or maybe it’s baclofen. I can’t remember—I remember it’s common to mix all three but there was one we didn’t want to include.

For me, I think it’s the feeling of having something moisturizing on my feet and limbs that is comforting, not necessarily the effect of the compounded cream. When my symptoms were at their worst years ago (thankfully it calmed down), I used regular lotion (cera-ve), followed by topical peppermint oil before bed. It muted the pain I got at night and the smell was relaxing. Later I switched to topical cbd. I use Fab CBD because they have one with really nice ingredients, very moisturizing and no menthol (I didn’t want the “cooling” sensation to interfere with my trial of whether CBD worked). That also seemed to help but again I don’t know that it’s the CBD or the actual moisturizer.

I’ve seen several people here recommend Life Flo magnesium lotion. At $12.49, it’s a fraction of the cost of compounded creams.

I think it’s worth trying; it’s just there are a lot of other in-between things to try because compounding add up in cost.

All that said lol, I have used gabapentin cream for vulvadynia, and that has seemed to work much more noticeably. So like most things, I guess it depends.