My doctor has diagnosed me with peripheral neuropathy- small fiber. He has gone as far as to do the tilt table test on me. He said it was severe. I'm in constant pain!!! If you put on a sheet it feels like there's a course sand paper that is on them. My Doc has tried Amatryptoline(sp) nothing, He wanted to try Lyrica but my Insurance denied it saying they wanted neurontin instead. Problem about that was I had had spinal surgery and they put me on 100 mg of neurontin and that made me fall twice (imbalance) PLUS I was haluinating from it. My dotors told the insurance and they still DENIED it!!!! So then he put me on Topamax now I'm up to 150 mg in the am/pm doesn't seem to help. He put me on a cream compundKETA-GABA-CLON- plus capzasin NOTHING!!!! In fact the topamax he wanted to raise to 200 mg. The first couple of days I did it affected my Crohn's ( i also have Crohn's disease). My GI doc thinks the Topamax is making my Crohns disease flare up now!!!! So my neurologist suggested me to go to a Pain MNMGT specialist. I did. He looked at everything and said that he thinks that there is one last chance and it's called the neurostimulator. He said he thinks I may be a candidate for it but it is VERY expensive. It cost over 80,000 dollars. Well if this was two years ago then there wouldn't be a problem my hospitilization would have covered it all, but the one we have now I would be responsible for 20% (16,000) plus then the procedure and then the initial one. so your talking about 20,000. I lost my home because of all of my illness's. I have Crohn's, had a heart attack, pneumonia's(Plural), heart failure, two spinal surgery's, ect Am I going to be in pain the rest of my life? :(((( I only sleep for 1 1/2 hrs a night!!! I hope everyone have a GREAT HOLIDAY'S!!!!!