I also went to a podiatrist when I first felt numbness in my toes -- he said it was Morton's neuroma -- he gave me two options: have surgery or wait until the symptoms get worse and then do surgery -- I opted for the second one -- when I went back a year later, he said it was not a neuroma, but I needed to see a neurologist, and later was diagnosed with PN -- glad I didn't opt for the surgery because it would not have changed anything