@jerry4info @hazelblumberg Our daughter-in-law is a nurse practitioner, and I concur with your assessment of them. My pcp told me yesterday that he will be retiring within the next twelve months, and finding a doctor who will agree to continue to prescribe the only pain medication that has done anything long term, morphine sulfate contin, may be difficult. And taking clonazepam for anxiety, along with a couple of antidepressants and an ongoing search for something that will slow down the progression of peripheral polyneuropathy. I take prednisone for that, and am taking Duloxetine, supposedly for the pain, but the pain just gets worse. At least, since I started taking Duloxetine, I've been doing things that were way overdue, because I actually feel like doing something. Being active does take my mind off the pain, until I quit for the day. Then it hits. I will certainly miss my doctor. He told me he'd ask around to see if there's a doctor willing to take me on. Maybe I'll be seeing a nurse practitioner. That would be fine with me.

Jim