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Thanks, John! @johnbishop.
I'd classify your response as an enthusiastic "perhaps".
I also have small fiber PN like you do, but mine is quite painful. Mine was diagnosed with a skin biopsy, so there is anatomic evidence of nerve damage. This leads me to question any treatment which purports to "cure" the disease, which would require evidence of the nerves growing back, or at least a halt in progression. Treatments like Lyrica are not supposed to be curative, so they don't count in this discussion.
I suppose the only way to prove something works is to take a treatment for x months (3, 6, 12? Again, nobody knows), then repeat the nerve biopsy. I don't have any indication that this approach has or is being tried. It would be an expensive, time consuming and somewhat painful experiment.
Thanks again John for your hard and useful work on this and other topics.
Jeff