My pattern is the same in reverse: I wake up every morning with so much pain in my legs and feet that I'm yelling as I hobble to the bathroom and take my morning meds (including gabapentin). I do stretches while waiting for pain to subside. After awhile, I can think about my day ahead and start living it. In the afternoon, I run a few miles and feel much better. In the evening, I'm my old healthy self. I also have idiopathic sensory neuropathy. Peggy