I guess I struggle with being idiopathic because I can’t help but think that knowing a cause gives you clearer guidance on what to focus on to ease the condition and symptoms. However, medical recommendations are often vague when you do know something: get a skin cancer biopsy and the doc says keep a bandaid over it for 2 weeks, another says do not, it needs to air out; muscle strain? One says use ice, another says heat. Your medicine prescription says it may cause diarrhea or constipation, sleepiness or restlessness, increased appetite or decreased appetite, and so on. So you might be on to something, knowing the cause may be just as confusing or futile as not knowing. The beauty of this site is people sharing and we feeling safer trying remedies that have worked on others with similar symptoms and networking. You hit the nail in the head with pain intolerance; I often wondered how useful a gauge it is to ask patients to rate their scale of pain because there’s no way of comparing your 6 to my 6. Maybe the faces some doctors have with their scales help a little, with 1 being a smiley face and changing faces leading up to ten having a sobbing face, but I don’t know.

There are other causes for neuropathy besides diabetes. I have it because of chemo treatment for breast cancer five years ago.