Well Darren, I'd say the best way to answer your question is that pretty much no two people have exactly the same experience with peripheral neuropathy. And what you describe might be common to some people early on in the disease, I don't know. But from the descriptions I have read here on Connect I would say many who have long term cases of PN have pain all or most of the day. As I mentioned, my wife started having it in the evening and eventually progressed to having severe pain as soon as she gets up in the morning and it lasts until she goes to bed. I hope that is not where your problem ends up. As annoying as your case sounds at least it is limited to those periods of limited duration. I am postulating that your case will progress as well based on what I hear from others, but I hope that is not the case for you. Two things I did not mention in the first post was that there are two things which help some with their pain and those are cannabis and kratom. My wife smokes marijuana 2-3 times per week and it gives her some respite from her pain for several hours each time. She has not had the same luck with kratom, but Lori @lorirenee1 who posted earlier here swears by it. You know, because of the way your problem manifests, if I were you I think I would talk to my doctor about being tested for PN because maybe what you have is slightly different. It would be good to have a firm diagnoses I would think. Anyway, hope you can get it figured out Darren, it sounds like not too much fun. Best, Hank